| While
there are many forms of meditation, most meditation teachers
aknowledge the underlying similarity of the techniques.
Getting away from the incessant chatter of the thinking
mind is a goal all meditation practices share:
I feel that all forms of traditional meditation
which are time-tested are worthwhile. My experience
is with TM, therefore I am best qualified to speak
about TM . . . My experience is that it is effortless,
easy, spontaneous. It allows the mind to simply transcend
to its source. This does not mean I think Zen is
not a good form of meditation, or that Vipassana
is not. They are all authentic forms of meditation.
That is why they have survived over thousands of
years.
From an interview with Depok Chopra,MD
© 2001 The New Yorker Collection from cartoonbank.com.
All Rights Reserved
Chogyam Trungpa was one of the first
Tibetan Buddhists to bring meditation practices to the
West. His view is that,
To sit in meditation and allow mental pictures, concepts,
and emotions to arise, dwell, and then disappear leads
to genuine insight into the background of our psychological
makeup. In this way the world of thoughts and the world
of action are brought together, and one's experience
can be seen clearly, without conceptual overlays.
Meditation In Action
The search to understand the workings of the human
mind is an age-old phenomenon. The practice of meditation
provides an intuitive and simple, yet profound means
of gaining some understanding by systematically observing
our world and ourselves.
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