[Buddha-l] there he goes again (sam harris)

[RonLeifer at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/27/2006 2:51:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rhayes at unm.edu writes:

What is  "meditation", after all?

A pretty much useless word in desperate search  for a meaning. I think there 
should be a twenty-year moratorium on its  use---along with a fifty-year ban 
on the use of such meaningless  expressions as "enlightenment."



I once attended a psychiatric conference in which Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche  
was speaker. A psychiatrist asked him "What is meditation?" Rinpoche pretended  
to look confused and spoke to his translator apparently trying to clarifying 
the  question. Then he answered: "Meditation? Meditation? I don't know what 
that is.  Our word for meditation means "paying attention."
 
Ron Leifer
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