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Meditation builds up the brain
Nature News ^
| 15 nov
| Alison Motluk
Posted on 11/15/2005 2:20:30 PM PST by S0122017
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To: S0122017
Meditation helps you live longer too. Monks are some of the longest living human beings.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:37:13 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker!)
To: S0122017
Explain this
To: IronManBike
Meditating on the law of God is not the same thing as emtying your mind of all thoughts so you can enter into "the cloud of unknowing" aka an altered state of consciousness. That, my friend, is just what Shirley MacLaine, Tom Cruise, and others do. Welcome to the New Age. It's really the old age of Hinduism.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:39:15 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(The nastiness of evolutionists proves one theological point: human depravity..)
To: Blue Highway
Does this meditation refer to the new age type of meditating? Christians usually don't consider time with God meditating as a Buddhist or Hinduist would. Probly! Christian prayer, meditation is so passe, so medieval, doncha know? Why study it?
I went to a Buddhist priory a few years back at an introductory meditation session conducted by some Jewish guy with serious sniffles and a dripping wet Kleenex, who decided some years earlier that he was gonna be a Buddhist monk. OK, fair enough. After the spoken introduction, he led the three of us novices to a darkened room for a half hour evening meditation. You kneeled in front of a wall on a pillow or cushion of some sort (this took place inside a former two story residence) and was supposed to think of nothing for thirty minutes. (I kept thinking of where I had seen the woman next to me before.) People, including this woman, arrived for this from outside as this was a twice daily ritual, like a Catholic mass, say. I left there somewhat disturbed by the emptiness and meaninglessness of the exercise.
Here's a somewhat relevant quote I just found on the net:
In 1997 Ratzinger called Buddhism an "autoerotic spirituality" that offers "transcendence without imposing concrete religious obligations." Hindusim, he said, offers "false hope," in that it guarantees "purification" based on a "morally cruel" concept of reincarnation resembling "a continuous circle of hell." At the time, Cardinal Ratzinger predicted that Buddhism would replace Marxism as the Catholic church's main enemy.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:42:32 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("in the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Cicero
The article doesn't really define what it means by meditating. Buddhist exercises? Christian meditation? They are entirely different. It would seem as if they should have described the meditative exercises. Do you do a Christian meditation on the Passion, or do you imagine one hand clapping? There isn't any difference any longer. Go to www.innerexplorations.com and see what I mean. The mystics of the past are back, still not acknowledging that the practice is occultic. Ah...but they are "bridging the gap" between the east and west you see. They are coming together with eastern "brothers" who practice Buddhism and Hinduism. Doesn't that make you feel so warm and fuzzy? Hey, even scientists who generally hate religion like this stuff.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:43:23 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(The nastiness of evolutionists proves one theological point: human depravity..)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I thought New Age was paganism without the War gods and hunting gods traditonaly assocated with paganism.
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"Meditating on the law of God is not the same thing as emtying your mind of all thoughts so you can enter into "the cloud of unknowing" aka an altered state of consciousness. That, my friend, is just what Shirley MacLaine, Tom Cruise, and others do. Welcome to the New Age. It's really the old age of Hinduism."
?. Ok? Glad we agree?
To: RichInOC
"How do you give brain?"Via intellectual intercourse.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:45:19 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
("Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error. " - Mohammed)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:45:41 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(The nastiness of evolutionists proves one theological point: human depravity..)
To: S0122017
Small mistake:
Not from www.nature.com/news but from www.newscientist.com
Both are daily newsservices concerning science and research.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:49:14 PM PST
by
S0122017
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"Lift up your heart to God with a humble impulse of love and have himself as your aim, not any of his goods ... Set yourself to rest in this darkness, always crying out after him whom you love. For if you are to experience him or to see him at all, insofar as it is possible here, it must always be in this cloud and in this darkness." -- The Cloud of Unknowing
Note, this was by a Medeival British Christian Mystic.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:49:25 PM PST
by
DarkSavant
(I touch myself at thoughts of flames)
To: Brad Cloven
Oh, that's good. That's very good.
:-D )))
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:50:07 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(...the mind with the dirty man.)
To: IronManBike
Oh, I'm sorry. Clearly you live by the old (true) definitions. Times they are a-changin'. Just be very very curious about everything your church teaches regarding prayer and meditation these days. The New Age version is running rampant in our churches. I am not kidding. I learned this the hard way. My son's youth group was all about studying movies as Scripture. I am not kidding about that either. It drove me crazy. So he went to camp one year where it was all about prayer and meditation. I was thinking, at least they aren't watching trashy movies all week. WELL....later I learn that they were doing this Buddhist meditation nonsense. I WAS SO MAD!!!!!
Our churches are in SERIOUS trouble.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:50:40 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(The nastiness of evolutionists proves one theological point: human depravity..)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; IronManBike
I would venture that Christ, while on his 40 day fast in the desert, before he began his mission, might have meditated on a few different things, both with mind full and empty.
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posted on
11/15/2005 2:53:46 PM PST
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: RichInOC; S0122017
you guys must not be too in touch with current urban slang. "give brain" refers to an oral sex act. i was kinda taken aback when i saw the title of this article.
recently here in NYC, there was a rather large to-do when an advertising campaign on the side of city buses said, "read books, get brain."
it was attempting to increase literacy. the kids got it, the people who approved the campaign didn't. once the adults caught on, the ads were pulled rather quickly.
To: thefactor
I think I've actually seen it used in that sense before, but I wasn't thinking about it when I read the headline.
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posted on
11/15/2005 3:02:28 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(...the mind with the dirty man.)
To: RichInOC
your tagline would seem to imply otherwise. i deal with urban kids daily so i hear that kind of sexual crap a lot. savage little punks if you ask me. but no one did.
To: S0122017
Reminds me of that Cheech and Chong routine:
"Say 'ohhhmmmm'"
"Ohhhmmmm"
"Ohhhmmmmmm ..."
"Oohhhhshhhi..."
To: DarkSavant
"Lift up your heart to God with a humble impulse of love and have himself as your aim, not any of his goods ... Set yourself to rest in this darkness, always crying out after him whom you love. For if you are to experience him or to see him at all, insofar as it is possible here, it must always be in this cloud and in this darkness." -- The Cloud of Unknowing Note, this was by a Medeival British Christian Mystic.I think that's a bunch of unscriptural bunk.
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posted on
11/15/2005 3:14:27 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(The nastiness of evolutionists proves one theological point: human depravity..)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
It's discouraging. I've done quite a lot of research on Christian meditation and contemplation, and neither of them has anything whatever to do with Zen.
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posted on
11/15/2005 3:14:48 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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