"PR led" is very accurate. What I found fascinating is that the writer really
doesn't *know* that he's already parroting the things he was told, without
putting them in quotes as if they had been told to him by a TM teacher, yet
often using the exact same phrases they used. I particularly like this segment.
Notice the use of quotes at the beginning, to indicate the things say by Bob
Roth, and then notice where the quotes end and yet he's still parroting Bob
Roth by repeating exactly what he said:
"The thing I asked my teacher was, how much of this shit do I have to believe
in for it to work? He said you can be 100 percent skeptical and it'll still
work." Roth is generous with his smiles, and he shot me a big one. "The cool
thing about this is you don't have to believe in anything. There's no
philosophy."
Other forms of meditation require a far greater commitment and can be more
difficult to adopt. They teach either extreme concentration (an intense focus
on one particular thing, and only that thing) or contemplation (thinking as
hard as you can about the present, which is often referred to as mindfulness),
but what makes TM so user-friendly is that you don't have to do either. It's
easy—"effortless," as Roth is fond of saying.
You simply allocate twenty minutes of quiet time and use a mantra to liberate
your mind from conscious thought and trigger the meditation. Mantras work, in
theory, because they are essentially meaningless word sounds. One is chosen for
you by your teacher from a library of dozens that go back to TM's ancient Vedic
origins. Once a mantra is given, it is never shared under any circumstances.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:25 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.
Standard PR led article with quite an amusing family tree on the right. What a
motley bunch of devotees!
The comments are interesting too. It seems the various concepts and techniques
of meditation have merged into one in the public consciousness.
The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation
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