As a former very long time TM person I would like to inject an experience I've had with a very, very easy technique I have found very nice and seems to mimic my experience with TM which, for years, did not seem easy to me. (Yes, I know Lawson will ask, at this point, if I had my meditation checked, yes repeatedly).
After having read a bunch of Thich Nhat Han and a book or two by Jon Kabat-Zinn and read and asked others about mindfulness techniques, I recently sat down and just allowed my awareness to very easily and simply be with my breathing-the in breath and the out breath, no effort at changing my pattern of breathing, just having my awareness on the breath as the focus (the simple, natural effortless focus) instead of the mantra. The attention wanders, as in TM, then easily come back to the breath. I found it much easier than TM, and the experience seemed about the same to me, over the 40 minutes I did this, my head would gradually fall forward as in TM, I would become aware of it, lift it back up, go back to being with the breath, etc. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bdadvaitin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone tell me what they would consider a meditation technique > for transcending that's similar to the TM technique. Any opinion > on Deepak Chopra's "Primordial Sound Technique." I also came across > Sri Sri RAvi Shankar's website. Didn't know he was once associated > with MMY then went his own way and started Sudarshan Kriya. Anyone > care to comment on this technique. My questions stem from the fact > that the cost of TM has skyrocketed beyond the reach of mainstream > America. Here I am a long time TM practioner and I am appalled at > what has occured. Have the days of Merv Griffin initiations dried > up? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
