[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

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Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my 
book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental at 
all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".