--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > [Curtis wrote:] > > > Sure it does. Anyone who doesn't participate in the > > > traditional religious interpretation of meditation > > > experiences can enjoy it as a secular practice. And > > > it is also not required to believe that you are > > > experiencing something trans-personal just because > > > it feels that way. > > > > Wait. How does this jibe with your objection to Lynch's > > program? > > I am talking about how I approach Meditation,not how > it is taught which is the relevant thing for schools.
None of what you describe is required for TM. It's taught *as a secular practice*. And it's not required that you believe you are experiencing something transpersonal, whether it feels that way or not. > The basic 3 days checking course is full of religious > belief about what is happening in TM Such as, specifically? (In any case, we don't know yet exactly how the follow- up is going to be taught in Lynch's project.) > If I was hanging out with monks and joined them in the > Jesus prayer (using the name of Jesus as a mantra to > transcend) then I would be doing it as a secular > practice. But that doesn't mean that it is OK to teach > the Jesus prayer in schools does it? Bad analogy. "Jesus" is the name of a (probably) historical personage well known to almost everyone to be central to a specific religion, not a semantically meaningless Sanskrit sound. > Despite TM teacher's denials, I believe TM is a > religious practice supported by traditional religious > interpretations of the experience. But they're taught to teach it as a secular practice supported by nonsectarian metaphysical principles.
