These posts are a hoot. It's a mental midget's attempt to define the "real" nature of mantra, Mahayana, meditation, transcending, and "reality itself".
Gotta laugh at the hubris. Keep 'em going, Willy. We gotta be entertained by somepin'. --- In [email protected], "richardjwilliamstexas" <willytex@...> wrote: > > > Scholarly article on Buddhist meditation, contemporary > > > mindfulness practices, and the Transcendental Meditation > > > technique by Dr. Evan Finkelstein. > > > > turquoiseb: > > Just another attempt to impose TM ideas on a system > > he neither understands nor respects, and clearly has > > never tried. > > > Get a grip! > > Finklestein has been a teacher of TM since 1972, so I > guess he has practriced TM. Almost all Mahayana Buddhists > use a form of mantra meditation, just like we use in TM > practice. This is so obvious that it hardly requires any > comment. > > But, in fact, the term meditation simply means to "think > things over", so almost everyone on the planet meditates > every day. There's probably not a person on the planet who > does not pause and take stock of their own mental contents > at least twice a day. > > And, we are all transcending, all the time, even without > a specific technique. So, ergo, we are all either Buddhists > or Transcendentalists, to a certain degree. > > So, if Turq is thinking that there is a "TM" or that there > is a "Buddhism", he is very far from having a great deal > of original insight. Go figure. >
