--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "ruthsimplicity" > > <ruthsimplicity@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > You were told not to say your > > > mantra out loud or to tell it to anyone. It was special. > > > > This last is pretty standard with mantra meditation > > techniques. > > Having TAUGHT other techniques of meditation, I > can say that this is not true. > > It's about half-and-half as far as I can tell. > Some traditions believe this and teach it, others > do not. It is FAR from "standard."
I'd say half-and-half makes it standard--in other words, not unusual: "regularly and widely used," per my dictionary. "Standard" doesn't mean "exclusive." To say that it > IS "standard" reveals how little Judy knows about > the larger world of meditation, and that pretty > much the only things she does know are from TM.
