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**JoesBro** · 01-19-2011, 03:00 AM

or you are dead.

LOL

Well it is said that breathing gradually stops as meditation goes deeper. You can even experience your breathing becoming shorter and smoother as you meditate. However, I have never heard this causing any brain damage whatsoever. If it causes such then I am not sure how people who have been meditating for long hours still wake up in perfect shape or in better shape So chances are high that you have been misinformed.

As for going crazy and all that, meditation in general is not only Buddhist meditation as Aloka-D pointed out. Not sure why correct practice of Buddhist meditation will make a person crazy. Never heard of it.

Yeah I think that is what he was referring to (if you stop breathing for 5 minutes, you start to suffer massive irreperable brain damage). But obviously, no one truly 'stops breathing' when they are meditating, "or you are dead" lol.

I figured too, since I had never heard of it happening to anyone before, and ive heard about meditation my whole life, that it must have been incorrect. I just figured to make this post JUST incase one of you have heard of it happening.

If you Google 'bad effects' of anything on the internet you're probably likely to get lots of negative results !

True enough.

Well, thanks guys for clearing that up, now I dont need to worry about meditating and awakening as a brain-dead person lol.

01-19-2011, 03:00 AM	#8
JoesBro Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 368 Senior Member	or you are dead. LOL Well it is said that breathing gradually stops as meditation goes deeper. You can even experience your breathing becoming shorter and smoother as you meditate. However, I have never heard this causing any brain damage whatsoever. If it causes such then I am not sure how people who have been meditating for long hours still wake up in perfect shape or in better shape So chances are high that you have been misinformed. As for going crazy and all that, meditation in general is not only Buddhist meditation as Aloka-D pointed out. Not sure why correct practice of Buddhist meditation will make a person crazy. Never heard of it. Yeah I think that is what he was referring to (if you stop breathing for 5 minutes, you start to suffer massive irreperable brain damage). But obviously, no one truly 'stops breathing' when they are meditating, "or you are dead" lol. I figured too, since I had never heard of it happening to anyone before, and ive heard about meditation my whole life, that it must have been incorrect. I just figured to make this post JUST incase one of you have heard of it happening. If you Google 'bad effects' of anything on the internet you're probably likely to get lots of negative results ! True enough. Well, thanks guys for clearing that up, now I dont need to worry about meditating and awakening as a brain-dead person lol.
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