--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Mar 28, 2009, at 12:00 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > Although Maharishi promotes the idea of coming back to the mantra > > was his unique contribution, I'm not sure a broader study of the > > source documents would support this. > > > If he indeed made that claim, it's and out and out lie. Another one. > But then again, most of us back then knew no better--we actually > believed it, at least for a while. So, in brief, it was not his unique > contribution, but traditional in many forms of meditation practice, > not just mantra repetition. It precedes TM by thusands and thousands > of years. > > The problem with TM is that it's a canned form of mantra practice, > rather than allowing different styles of repetition for different > types of people, the way it really should be. After all, we're all > different! >
Seems to me that MMY's "unique contribution" is the understanding that thinking a mantra is no different than thinking any other thought. Insomuch as most other meditation "techniques" seem to miss this point, I'd say it is unique to TM (or at least, my interpretation of TM). L
