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From: hugh@chook.ua.oz.au (Hugh Garsden)
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Subject: Meditation
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Date: 31 Oct 90 06:38:24 GMT
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I have read that there are two kinds of Buddhist meditation, one where
you focus the mind on the breath, the other where you don't concentrate
on anything, but empty the mind (that right?).

So, to put it bluntly: which is better?
Does one provide faster progress than the other?
Are there even any criteria that can be used to claim that one is
"better" than the other? So do they have a different function?

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Hugh Garsden
University of Adelaide
hugh@cs.adelaide.edu.au