What is Transcendental Meditation?

chrispche

Transcendental Meditation what is and how does it differ from Buddhist Meditation?

federica

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

read this, too....

(from the above link....)

Myth #7. Transcendental Meditation is the most common kind of meditation

“Oh, so is it Transcendental meditation you do?” I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked that question when people have found out I’m a meditation teacher. Just about everyone has heard of Transcendental Meditation because of famous practitioners like the Beatles and because of controversies about TM being taught in U.S. schools, but TM is very much a minority pursuit — probably because it’s so darned expensive to learn (and the question of where those millions of dollars go is still open). The most common form of meditation in the West is Mindfulness or Insight meditation, which comes from Theradavin Buddhism of South and Southeast Asia. Zen meditation and Tibetan meditation (which often involves visualization) isn’t far behind.

chrispche

But what's the experience like, how does it differ from normal mindfulness?

Subjectivity9

chripche,

What we experience in any meditation at/all is our self, or who we believe we are at the time.

Do you want me to tell you how YOU feel? ; ^ )

Is it possible for me to do this better than you can?

In one meditation, you might think/see this is ‘Me’ saying a mantra, in another meditation you might think/see this is ‘Me’ watching my breath.

The common denominator IMO is becoming reacquainted with ‘Me.’

Meditation is a 'Skillful Means' for accomplishing that.

Happy hunting,
S9