Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00112)

Leon wrote: <<The idea being that if 
the mind can hold only one thought at a
time, the best way to stop the 
modifications of the miond or 
uncontrolled discursive thinking, is to 
concentrate and hold a single thought or 
idea in the mind. That is the basis of 
meditation in any yoga practice. >>

There may be yoga practices along those 
lines, but if such yoga practices are 
seen as "best way," seems to me that 
such ways might amount to building 
bridges by which one might by-pass or 
find excuses for by-passing even notions 
about, or efforts toward, "just being." 
I've been under the impression that 
HPB, for one, might have seen "just 
being" as a form of "meditation" that 
might be, in some cases, "more to the 
point," say, than meditation by way of 
"holding a single thought." On the 
other hand, whatever seems to "make 
sense" ...

Speculatively,
Mauri