--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > nothing else like it available at the time??? What the > hell do you think the Indians did back then?
Not TM as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It's my understanding that other Indian gurus were outraged at Maharishi for saying meditation should be easy. (snip) > From: feste37 <feste37@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:36 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Question for TM Cheerleaders > Perfect! And one has to remember that some of the effortless forms of > meditation now available are knock-offs of TM (Chopra's for example, and > another one called Effortless Meditation), and like most knock-offs, likely > to be not as good as the original. Another thing to remember, I think, is > that MMY first introduced this technique to the West in the late 1950s and > early 1960s. There was nothing else like it available at the time. Since then > the principle of effortlessness in meditation has passed into the New Age > mind-set, so some offerings do indeed echo that principle, but it was MMY who > first brought it to people's attention, 50 years ago. It's part of his legacy.
