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Different goals of meditation.
I've come to realize that there are different types of meditation with different competing goals:
For example one type is the kind we see in kung fu movies, where you sit on a mountain top for hours with your legs crossed and then you have super fast reflexes. While this does indeed work, it has nothing to do with Bhudism. It's entirely goal oriented. Desire oriented work...
Another type of medition, is when we do a meditation. For example "I'm going to do a meditation on "why cat has 4 legs and not 5""... This is also goal oriented, but I understand it is often used by Bhudists, and the teachers give their students things to meditate about...
Then there is the whole stress relief thing, which is a lot like the first one. It's mainly goal oriented, on: Health, Superpowers, Higher levels of sensory ability ect...
EDIT: By the way. I am not trying to make fun of Bhudism with my comments about "Superpowers".... I come from a town on the West Coast of the United States, where there where a lot of white men who played video games and where "going east" to find super powers. I'm kind of satirizing them...
Then there is meditating in seeking enlightenment. This is goal based. Which is highly ironic.
Do these different forms of meditation have different names? I think that they are unrelated...
For example one type is the kind we see in kung fu movies, where you sit on a mountain top for hours with your legs crossed and then you have super fast reflexes. While this does indeed work, it has nothing to do with Bhudism. It's entirely goal oriented. Desire oriented work...
Another type of medition, is when we do a meditation. For example "I'm going to do a meditation on "why cat has 4 legs and not 5""... This is also goal oriented, but I understand it is often used by Bhudists, and the teachers give their students things to meditate about...
Then there is the whole stress relief thing, which is a lot like the first one. It's mainly goal oriented, on: Health, Superpowers, Higher levels of sensory ability ect...
EDIT: By the way. I am not trying to make fun of Bhudism with my comments about "Superpowers".... I come from a town on the West Coast of the United States, where there where a lot of white men who played video games and where "going east" to find super powers. I'm kind of satirizing them...
Then there is meditating in seeking enlightenment. This is goal based. Which is highly ironic.
Do these different forms of meditation have different names? I think that they are unrelated...
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Maybe this article will clarify some of your points. Or, at least, you could use it as a starting point....
With kind regards,
S
now divine fire and proper intention are not goals in the same way that wanting to be king of the world is a goal. but they are definitely goal-ish in that they direct/frame one's thoughts and actions.
as i see it, goals are a starting point, a way in. without them, most of us unenlightened ones would just keep treading samsaric water.
With practice you may even come to an intuitive understanding (different than knowledge) that separation from universal life or being itself is an illusion.
That your true nature is not the story of yourself.
The overall purpose is the same for everyone however.
You are learning to relate to awareness itself, the purest level of experience.
Meditation techniques has been spread over since before Buddhism was born. They have different goals and ways of doing. As you mentioned, many of them are desire-oriented. However, the very core purpose of Buddhism is to gain 'enlightenment'. For enlightenment, Buddha taught one and only one path: Vipassana. If you are looking into enlightenment, go for Vipassana.