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on incorporating other forms of meditationFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2009-10-10 23:46:48
Remote IP: 76.251.213.191
MessageI wasn't sure to respond since it was directed at Chris,
but since he has responded already . . .
Most of your comments stand on their own and need no further
commentary. I can see and feel a lot of personal pain that
you have gone through, as well as current strength. My best
to you on that end.
I just wanted to make a comment about your meditation question:
>>>There is one thing I am working on now.
>>>The meditation I am doing now is Buddhist based
>>>but open to all, you do not have to be Buddhist.
>>>But it is suggested not to incorporate other forms
>>>of meditation such as the microcosmic orbit so as
>>>not to confuse the body. I don't like that so much
>>>because I truly do not understand why.
Yeah, I think is important to try different things, and
see what feels right to you--rather than limiting yourself
to particular dogma. So kudos to your exploration.
I can see at least two reasons why they suggest to not
incorporate other forms of meditation.
One reason of course is because they want "faithful
followers" that completely buy into their doctrine,
and this is a subtle way of cultivating that.
The other reason is a little more reasonable:
I don't know what form of Buddhist meditation you are
doing, but at least in the Zen tradition, the "fifth
finger of Zen" is called "no reading; direct experience".
Thus when Zen practitioners learn Zen meditation, they
are asked to not read anything about Buddhism and to
not dabble too much in extraneous things that aren't
the explicit practices being taught. The reason here
is that they want you to learn first-hand what
the practices do for you. The thinking is that if you
read about Buddhism or you do other practices, then
you can't necessary be sure if the results and
discoveries you are making are indeed due to
the practices themselves or if they are the result
of the side-dabbling.
Now the meditation you are learning might be from
a different tradition, but at least in my case,
I've taken a series of courses in Zen meditation,
and I initially followed the same request--and did
so willingly to observe the results due solely from
that meditation.
However, once the sequence of courses had finished, and
once I felt I satisfactorily understood how to do the
meditation, and once I saw the results due solely to
that form of meditation, I abandoned that request.
Since that time, I have appropriated that meditation for
my own use as an adjunct to the alchemical meditations and
forms of qigong taught in the Healing Tao. I do not
find that incorporating it confuses the body. In fact,
I find quite the opposite. Instead, what
I find is that it helps the alchemical meditations to
work faster and more efficiently. The "empty-mind" Zen
meditation acts as a nice yin practice providing some
downtime during which the transformations and
downloads from the Healing Tao work can process faster,
uninhibited from the resistance from the brain.
Even if the meditation you are learning involves moving
energy around, after you have learned the meditation
I see no reason to restrict yourself away from other
practices. The body should be able to adapt.
In particular, just in the Healing Tao courses themselves,
we oftentimes practices several different types of
meditation and we think nothing of it. Of course
on your own you can go deeper and explore one particular
type of meditation more extensively, but again its your
choice.
Have fun in your discoveries,
Steven
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