Sorry to be a cop, Uriel, but let's put two of your statements side by side ( the quote feature is not working now for some reason ):
"Resisting buddhism...I have NO desire to practice that religion but I DO strongly suggest you practice zen meditaion."
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"You can practice seated meditaion without all the Eastern religious 'stuff.'"
Uh, Zen IS the "Eastern stuff." Then after you are corrected by Alex, who told you that the proper position for Catholics is to be on our knees, you go right back into defending "seated meditation." You repeatedly insist on this.
"Just because one practices seated meditation does NOT mean they are practicing any Eastern, or otherwise, religion!"
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"Seat yourself and let your eyes fall apon what they will. Try not to start ANYTHING nor stop ANYTHING that happens. You will be amazed at all the trash in ones head that comes forward."
Unless you are seated in a pew, Catholics do not practice "seated meditation," and even then we occasionally get down to kneel. I cannot imagine a Catholic sitting on the floor, meditating.
As for "Try not to start ANYTHING nor stop ANYTHING that happens," this is bad advice. Don't worry, I've given some myself, but please apologize and recant. Why would anyone want "trash" -- demonic images -- to come forward?
Catholics do not empty their minds as you are suggesting. Do you really not know that this is the way practitioners of Eastern mysticism open our spirits to the devil? What you are saying is exactly what John Lennon was saying when he said "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream."
Catholics are the opposite and our meditations are decidedly active. We devoutly contemplate the life of Christ, Mary and the saints, the eternity of God, as well as praying for those in purgatory and our family and friends and others.
The more grace God gives you, the more intensely filled with love these prayers will be, and that is our mysticism. For instance, Mary was said to be so filled with the love of her Son that she burned to a degree that could not be supported by a human body without supernatural assistance. I have felt very, very minor approximations of that, a sort of ecstasy, though mine is not continuous but lasts for maybe five minutes at a time.