Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00237)

To the heretic who thinks, meditation does not give braindamamage:

I can say it does, if one is not spiritual strong.
My experiences: there is a very great difference in meditation in the 
WEST and in the EAST.
For here in the west there is no possibility for meditation in a 
total noisy surrounding, even not to be concentrated.
The cause is that there will not be any restful minute, or second for 
that in a residential town,only in midnight it will be restfull, if 
there are not older ones making noisy.

Or one needs to have a castle and than he will have other problems in 
keeping in repair.Than no time .
I learned the techniques of Eastern, but cannot practise in this 
west, only if I go to a place totally restful without any noise of 
dominating voices and dangers. 
So for this meditation brings here everyone to braindamage, that is 
why he or she must take the short moments of totally noisyless at 
four till five in the morning .
Christina TL



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Konstantin Zaitzev" 
<kay_ziatz@y...> wrote:
> >>- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:
> 
> > Which are a load of utter crap!
> > No one gets brain damage from meditation.
> 
> I suspect that you are not very experiensed in meditation.
> Tibetans know too well that we shouldn't overstrain ourselves
> and repress thoughts by brute force when we meditate.
> Jampa Tinley, who was sent by Dalai Lama to Moscow to found
> a Gelug-pa center, wrote:
> 
> "When you shall meditate, don't do it long. Try to meditate
> two minutes or so, not more. Then take some rest, relax,
> look at the image of the Buddha. Don't sit too long. There
> can various fancies begin to raise in your head, and in may
> damage your mental health. Many people think that if they
> lit inmeditation for long, they become masters of meditation.
> It's a false idea. They simply don't know how to learn to
> meditate." ("Shamatha: basics of Tibetan meditation").