On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
I've found it's helpful to get the big picture of what different styles of meditation do and then based on observing my own condition, use what works best over any period of time. I see meditation as basically of four different types: --quiescence or transcendence style meditation, where one finds a "calm", quiescent or "transcendent" state--essentially a state of no gross conceptual thought. As you say--it's flat: non-ideation as an object. --insight style meditation where the movement of thought and the experience of sensations are integrated with the calm, transcendent state. In some people this may be helpful at integrating "presence" during episodes where the mind in moving but it also helps one recognize stillness, the transcendent. --unifying the previous two: a bridge to the non-dual. --resting in the natural state: identifying the natural characteristics of consciousness as stillness, movement of thought: however consciousness is is just perfect. Each one of these works better for different people at different times depending on how their condition is: how is the body? how is your relationship with thought? how are the subtle channels?, etc. In another sense, one could practice all four as one. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'
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