transcendental meditation

angulimala

have anyone heard or attended this kind meditation?what do you think about it?
mettacitena


ps:for brian or fed if this thread seems not belong to this forum pls move it to a more appropriate forum,thank u

federica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_meditation

http://www.t-m.org.uk/

Have a look at the two above links and see what you think...
For my part, and in my own opinion, if you start labelling Meditation, and apportioning specific practises and disciplines to give it definition, it stops being Meditation, and it starts being a spiritual discipline in its' own right.


"Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes, I just sits. "

("Anne of the Island" By L. M. Montgomery.)

Simonthepilgrim

Everybody has to start somewhere and TM was a way in for many meditators. There are few who stopped there.

questZENer

I have a friend who has been practicing TM for many years. According to him, the technique is quite simple and quite powerful. He has benefitted greatly from its practice.

The last time I did any looking into it, there were quite a few shakeups about the assigned "mantra", i.e., depending on your age and sex, new meditators are given a standardized 'sound' with which to meditate, none of which were particularly Vedic.

I suspect that the technique has less to do with the mantra and more to do with the dedication with which the one practicing brings to it. Most TMers meditate 2x per day, AM and PM. Over a long period of time, how could one not feel the benefit of this simple practice?

Peace.

buddhafoot

Some people have had bad experiences with teachers of TM

see: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

But that's still the person, not the practice.

-bf