TM isn't even a technique, but simply a strategy that hopefully is absorbed by the meditator after sitting in on the TM "course" for the requisite number of days.
I came up with a different way of putting it recently: The TM class is a 4-day long koan, that is hopefully going to clarify the nonsensical phrase "think a mantra effortlessly" L ---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote : On 5/2/2014 7:25 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... wrote: > Are you saying that TM is a technique? > A technique is something you do. The ability to dive is a technique. The practice of TM is a technique. The result of diving is immersion. The result of TM is samadhi. In the yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali. Samadhi is a state of "beingness". Samadhi is like an abiding in which mind becomes very still but does not merge with the object of attention, and is thus able to observe and gain insight into the changing flow of experience. Samadhi is based on attention and memory. According to Nisargadatta Maharaj, "When you say you sit for meditation, the first thing to be done is understand that it is not this body identification that is sitting for meditation, but this knowledge ‘I am’, this consciousness, which is sitting in meditation and is meditating on itself. When this is finally understood, then it becomes easy. When this consciousness, this conscious presence, merges in itself, the state of ‘Samadhi’ ensues. It is the conceptual feeling that I exist that disappears and merges into the beingness itself." http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/nisargadatta_quotes_from_ultimate_medicine.php http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/nisargadatta_quotes_from_ultimate_medicine.php --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com http://www.avast.com
