Hi

As I know Buddha learned meditation from ascetics. I am not sure if
Hindu had a practice of self mortification. I think it was some other
group of people, practicing some supernatural ways. I would not think
Hindu would make them very acceptable with those practices for their
group of people.

With metta
Leo

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "thomaslaw03" <thomaslaw03@...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Before the Buddha attained enlightenment, he learnt meditation from
the
> two Hindu gurus, and attainted the meditation states,
> aaki~nca~n~naayata and then n'eva sa~n~aa-naasa~n~naayatana. That
mean,
> these two meditation states are from the Hindu tradition. How about
> this final meditation state, sa~n~naa-vedayita-nirodha (nirodha-
> samaapatti)? Does this state also come from or share with the Hindu
> meditation tradition? Or it is entirely a Buddhist meditation
state,
> not being shared with the Hindu tradition? Please give me advice.
Thank
> you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Thomas Law
>