--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote:
>
> There's nothing wrong with mindfulness practices, but given a choice between
> doing TM twice a day, or doing mindfulness practices twice a day, I'd
> recommend TM.
>
> Mindfulness and concentrative techniques have their benefits, as Maharishi
> liked to say, but such techniques tend to
>
> 1) suppress the functioning of the parts of the brain having to do with sense
> of self, thereby reinforcing the "no self" perspective promoted by Buddhism;
>
> 2) tend to fragment the functioning of the brain.
>
> TM, on the other hand, enhances the functioning of the brain having to do
> with sense of self, and unifies the connectivity of between the self-centers
> of the brain, and the rest of teh brain, thereby reinforcing teh "self is
> everything" perspective promoted by advait vedanta.
>
> TM tends to have greater positive effects on stress-related issues such as
> anxiety and high blood pressure than mindfulness and concentrative techniques
> do. Mindfulness tends to have greater effects on, well, mindfulness-related
> issues.
>
> Concentration, in and of itself, doesn't do much good for anyone, though the
> brand of concentration called "compassion meditation" tends to make one feel
> and behave more compassionately towards other people. But, again, that's a
> task-specific outcome.
>
> TM isn't a task per se and anything positive associated with its "practice"
> can be explained in terms of stress management ("Yoga is the subsidence of
> mind fluctuations" [that are brought about by the impressions from past
> experiences that give rise to mental activity inappropriate for the present
> moment]} -Yoga Sutras, I, 2) and strengthening the nervous system so that new
> stresses are likely to take hold.
That's a pretty nice sum-up of what concentration and Buddhist-techniques in
general are all about. Well done !
>
> L
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > It makes him really really nervous.
> >
> >
> > Feeling the body and "coming back to your breath" would hardly make a
> > student of real meditation "really really nervous"
> >
> >
> >
> > "Under direction of meditation leader Catie Ballard, they focused on
> > feeling their shoulders, elbows, feet and the backs of their knees. They
> > lay still until directed to open their eyes.
> >
> > "You can always keep coming back to your breath," Ballard said. "That's
> > the hallmark of every type of meditation in the world."
> >
> >
> > This Ballard is so ignorant he probably studied with a Buddhist lama with a
> > very, very funny hat.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://goo.gl/4gmF8j
> > >
> > > http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2013/07/29/news/doc51f496a395e1d996538253.txt
> > >
> >
>
