]> 2026-10-12T08:00:26-04:00 Feedback-56 0 en true Marcus Editorial where did the basic meaning definition come from? It's very wordy and a bit hard to follow (sorry to say that!) also what Thrangu R says doesn't make sense: In analytical meditation, one reads (or listens to) a passage giving a logical argument and then one goes into a deep Shamatha meditation and contemplates this argument. "deep shamatha meditation"? I wonder if Rinpoche really said this. Those Namo Buddha publications are not reliable records of what Thrangu Rinpoche said. The problem is that vipashyana is predominantly analytical meditation. Could we find better text for "has the sense of"? I can point you to Moonbeams, 87-89, as an example. I'm not suggesting that you use this but it shows you why I'm wondering what Thrangu Rinpoche actually said. The terms “analytical” and “resting” are designated from the perspective of what they emphasize. “Analytical meditation” refers to the meditative process that uses inferential cognition as its path and primarily determines the view by relying on critical investigation using scriptures and reasonings. “Resting meditation” refers to the meditative process that uses direct cognition as its path and primarily determines the view through remaining in equipoise with suchness. ... Furthermore, broadly speaking, if [we look at this] from the perspective of the use of the terms “analysis” and “resting,” meditations that involve critical investigation must be considered analytical meditation, and meditations during which we settle into the natural state and rest must be resting meditation. Other meanings of the words “analysis” and “resting” would be difficult to explain [or justify]. That being so, all meditations involving intelligent critical investigation—beginning with the meditation on the difficulties of ac-quiring the leisures and opportunities [of a precious human life] and the meditation on im-permanence up through determining the two absences of self-entity—must be analytical meditation. All types of resting evenly on the object of meditation that is the subject of analysis, with one-pointed mindfulness and alertness, must be resting meditation. 2020-02-21 Elizabeth Key Terms/dpyad sgom High false 2020-02-21T19:24:16Z 2458901.3085185 2020-03-05T21:57:04Z 2458914.4146296 false Feedback-56 0 0 plainlist 1 [[:Feedback-56]] Feedback-56# QUERYf0928e029da928521ff0994bc6e3b705