Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-23 Thread Vaj
On Aug 23, 2009, at 12:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Raunchydog wrote: I'm not asking you to buy anything. Just answer the question. Why do researchers find frontal alpha coherence in TM'ers and not in people simply relaxing or in other meditation techniques? No answer implies you either

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Vaj
On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:39 PM, raunchydog wrote: Then how come, Frontal alpha coherence is not reported in other meditation practices? It isn't considered important because it's low integration and common. Usually meditation will only briefly stay in alpha until it goes to deeper levels

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Vaj
On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:11 PM, WillyTex wrote: Vaj wrote: Ah yes, James Austin. Good stuff! Ah yes, James Austin, the same James Austin that cites Herbert Benson, who as everyone knows, first published the results of TM with Keith Wallace. According to Austin, scientists have mapped the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Vaj
On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:04 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Boy, was I disappointed when I first heard that. Wake up call! Pity then that you didn't wake up but joined, or perhaps you've been there all along, Buddhism; perhaps the most

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Vaj
On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:28 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:39 PM, raunchydog wrote: Then how come, Frontal alpha coherence is not reported in other meditation practices? Travis isn't talking about just alpha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Bhairitu
Vaj wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:39 PM, raunchydog wrote: Then how come, Frontal alpha coherence is not reported in other meditation practices? It isn't considered important because it's low integration and common. Usually meditation will only briefly stay in alpha until it goes to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Vaj
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Vaj wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:39 PM, raunchydog wrote: Then how come, Frontal alpha coherence is not reported in other meditation practices? It isn't considered important because it's low integration and common. Usually meditation

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Bhairitu
Vaj wrote: Cleaning house the other day I came across my copy of The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation the 1988 book by Michael Murphy and Steven Donovan published by Esalen Institute. I'm going to have to thumb through some of those studies again. ;-) Probably mostly out of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-22 Thread Vaj
Hi RD: On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:50 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:28 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:39 PM, raunchydog wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-21 Thread Vaj
On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:49 AM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Dying the cloth of inner happiness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3047291.stm There is something about conscientious Buddhist practice that results in the kind of happiness

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhists 'really are happier'

2009-08-21 Thread Vaj
Ah yes, James Austin. Good stuff! On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:33 AM, shinkai_birx wrote: Tricycle: the Buddhist Review (Fall 2009 issue) presents an informative article beginning on page 58 entitled This Is Your Brain On Zen.