--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > But the idea of starting with concentration or focus > > > and then moving to a more effortless focus *in the > > > same meditation period* is hardly unique. Many of > > > the concentration techniques I've learned were like > > > that -- you start with a strong period of focus on > > > a yantra or mantra or image or whatever, and then > > > "let go" and have a period of no focus. Sometimes > > > the technique involves "bouncing back and forth" > > > between these two approaches in the same meditation. > > > > > > Caveat for the easily offended: The above statement > > > implies neither good nor bad, better nor best; it's > > > just what I was taught when learning those techniques. > > > It isn't meant as a comment on your favorite style of > > > meditation in any way. > > > > In MY experience, that's the "worst-case" example of effort during > > TM. You start out deliberately thinking the mantra, and then you > > forget to think it. Rinse, repeat. OTher times, its not quite so > > obvious that one is deliberately doing something. Other times, it > > seems obvious that there is no doing, just happening. > > Ummmm...in case you didn't notice, I wasn't describing > TM. I was describing other forms of meditation. >
And, apparently you missed this: I was pointing out that these "other" forms of meditation CAN BE inherent in TM practice. They just arise spontaneously. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
