Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!eos!data.nas.nasa.gov!news
From: tilley@cs.rochester.edu (Dave Tilley)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: Meditation
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.013724.3770@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 1 Nov 90 01:37:24 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.063824.13640@nas.nasa.gov>
Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept
Lines: 26
Approved: prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov

In article <1990Oct31.063824.13640@nas.nasa.gov> hugh@chook.ua.oz.au (Hugh Garsden) writes:
>
>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?).

	There are Godzillion kinds of Buddhist meditation. But these are two
	and two that I use. I start with the first. Then move to the second.

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


Dave
-- 

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Dave Tilley 	cs.rochester.edu