Yup! Actually Maharishi was very complementary about one Buddhist meditation
technique, that I would call a mindfulness meditation. He liked their walking
meditation. Putting the awareness on the feet as one foot lifts up and the
other is set down or some such thing. He said it was good at developing
witnessing.
From: "yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 6:01 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness for Police Officers
Thx,....as a technique or group of techniques, mindfulness has nothing over
TM in my experience. But as far as a popularity contest goes, mindfulness will
probably win the war vs TM for one important reason: Although mindfulness is
sometimes taught by Buddhist teachers, it can also be taught (and is) by
instructions with no allegiance to any religion, philosophy, or ideology; and
nor do they perform any rituals that have Hindu or Buddhist origins. - unlike
the TM puja. incorporating the traditional Skt prayers. For that reason,
mindfulness is catching on among academics in certain universities in the Bay
area, Boston, NY and upstate NY (which is the home of many Buddhist teachers
who emigrated to the US). Among many departments in such Universities (say
Stanford, UCB, etc), teaching techniques of meditation that have any connection
whatsoever with Hindu rituals would not go over well with one's Dept
Chairperson.Basically, Buddhism is more "chic", and mindfulness - though having
Buddhist origins - is something that can be completely separated out from such
origins and made acceptable to most academics.. Then, there's the question of
secret mantras in TM..Everything involved with meditation techniques should be
amenable to prompt explanation in terms of current science, particularly the
burgeoning field of neurophysiology. Mindfulness is simply more amenable to
scientific explanations devoid of anything that could possibly be labeled
"woo-woo" (notwithstanding all of the slanted, biased, and questionable
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