adrasteia (can't sign in) wrote:Children at St. James have meditation sessions twice a day.
Many of them do not meditate -see 'Has St. James really changed' thread for a brilliant example!
What then is the point in them sitting there every day for increasingly legthened periods if most are practicing anything but meditation?
This begins at age 10-11.
What they do decide to practice -as I agree, no one can be forced to meditate or pray- must then have a big effect on them, as it happens for a long period of their life- 8-9 years.
So is it merely harmful to them to force them to sit there?
No. Sitting quietly never harmed anyone. Pity more people can't manage it - pace of life and all that. Anyway it's only between 5 and 10 minutes. (So no increasingly lengthened periods.) And most - probably all - do meditate sometimes. Some people actually love it.[/u]