TM - trancendental meditation

[thesmokingpants]

does anyone know the trancendental meditation technique?

[Kazbadan]

maybe you can find it in the articles (many of them ) in the amazing site:
http://www.buddhanet.net/

i dont have sure what is TM but i know that you will find the amazing midnfulness meditatio n tehcnique among others.

See "Essentials of Insight Meditation Pratice" ebook.

Everything there is for free. Many ebooks are so great that even in librarys you hardly will find better.

[MisterJingo]

maybe you can find it in the articles (many of them ) in the amazing site:
http://www.buddhanet.net/

i dont have sure what is TM but i know that you will find the amazing midnfulness meditatio n tehcnique among others.

See "Essentials of Insight Meditation Pratice" ebook.

Everything there is for free. Many ebooks are so great that even in librarys you hardly will find better.

TM is a mantra based meditation technique. They give each participant a unique mantra, which supposedly holds more power for them, and you have to pay to be trained in it (they do corporate events etc). Googling will bring a lot of stuff up about this.

[thesmokingpants]

but surely someone knows it and would like to tell us. They charge way to much for the training. I am looking for something that will really open up my inner knowing my intuition and third eye. I really want to break open some doors.

[MisterJingo]

but surely someone knows it and would like to tell us. They charge way to much for the training. I am looking for something that will really open up my inner knowing my intuition and third eye. I really want to break open some doors.

I know people who have attended TM courses and from people who have been teaching meditation for over 20 years. TM has no greater secret over any other meditation practice, apart from the 'secret' mantra, which seems to be anything from a few randomly selected words to your date of birth etc. The reason it is expensive is because it's aimed at high flyers, company training days. Its aimed in a way that mostly non-spiritual exec types will get something from it.
Its great in the way it teaches meditation to those who perhaps wouldn't have learnt it otherwise. But it holds nothing more than learning meditation for free.

[Giselle]

I totally agree.  I took the course many years ago because I thought I just didn't "get" meditation.  Personally, I think it's a rip off.  They do give you a mantra, which they make a big production out of having you think it's a special word just for you.  Several years later someone pointed me to a web site that showed the words are chosen according to your birthdate.  Sure 'nuf, there was my special word next to my year of birth.

Having said all that, what it did do is teach me what meditation is...that it's not some big mystery that I was missing the point on.

Basically, they have you sit in a chair and relax and then repeat the word they've given you over and over in your mind, rhythmically.  My mantra/word was Karim.  So I would sit and think "Ka-rim,"  "Ka-rim," "Ka-rim" over and over.  If thoughts enter your mind, they tell to to quietly bring them back to your mantra.  So, it's basically like most other methods of meditation....clearing your mind, and going deeper and deeper into the meditative state.  

The training at the time I took it was short...maybe a week or two, can't remember and expensive...$500.  In my opinion, not worth it, in retrospect.  At the time, I thought, "Oh, well, that was a lot of money just so I could find out I was meditating all along."  

They also incorporate some ritual into this training which was rather "silly,"  like an individual initiation at which they give you the "secret" word.

There are people who go on to take more courses and it seems to me to be somewhat of a cult and they have quite a few ways to get you to keep spending money.


Giselle