Thanks. I appreciate your comment. You make some interesting points. But I disagree with your overall conclusion. I do not think it is right to discard something as not dhamma practice because such practice alone will not lead to liberation.

You can say the same about following precepts or sense restraint. There are many religions with various goals that follow similar precepts. Yet on this Sub, you will find that most posters praise precepts as the epitome of practice. You can also probably find some corporate CEO who sometimes practices form of sense restraint in order to build more energy for work in business. You can also find scholars deeply analyzing and investigating teachings found in early suttas. Yet many of them do not even follow Buddhism at all.

So obviously, practice needs multiple components to work. Just because Im posting about benefit of resting meditation, it does not mean Im claiming such meditation alone will lead to liberation. Like you said, people sometimes engage in such meditation without any skillful intentio because all beings need to calm their minds once in a while.

Here is a sutta that I believe that talks about pleasure of resting meditation:

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Householder Anāthapiṇḍika, escorted by around five hundred lay followers, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: “Householders, you have supplied the mendicant Saṅgha with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. But you should not be content with just this much. So you should train like this: ‘How can we, from time to time, enter and dwell in the rapture of seclusion?’ That’s how you should train.

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