Transcendental Meditation is a secretive mantra meditation movement founded by an indian yogi/guru. Most research on meditation benefits is on TM. To learn it, one has to pay for and participate in a course led by a certified TM teacher.

Does anybody here have had experience with TM, participated in a course and received a mantra chosen by their teacher?

Do you really need a teacher to learn it? Is the course worth it or just profiteering? Anything else one should know before going to a course themselves?

  • @[email protected]English
    0•1 year ago

    I have experimented with a few focus techniques. That is to say, the object differed.

    I am of the opinion that the act of focus is most significant and the particular object focused upon is of much lesser significance. That the object should be selected simply for ease of use and minimal side-effects

    Tho there are effects other than that of the focusing (stillness, clarity etc). Side-effects unique to some objects.

    And I have heard of certain objects with special powers. Where the side-effect is of central importance. For example, the visualizations of the Tibetan Buddhists. Maybe the TM technique is one such.