Vaj wrote: > Well unfortunately, I'm sure the TM org still > tries to tell people that the Surangama sutra, > a Buddhist sutra, is one of the best descriptions > of TM! > Well, unfortunatly, while this may be true, it is a fact that the historical Buddha did not compose the 'Shurangama Sutra', it was made up much later, in Central India, around 700 A.D. The historical Buddha lived in the fifth century B.C.
I suspect that the Shurangama Sutra is really a Sanskrit Hindu work on Yoga that was imported into China sometime after Bodhi Dharma took the practice of 'chan' to China. Chan is of course, dhyana, or a meditation that is transcendental. According to David Frawley, all so-called 'Buddhistic' types of meditation are based on the Vedas and the Yoga Upanishads or on the Tantras. This makes sense, since the Buddha was a Hindu and practiced Yoga. And the Mahayana is almost entirely a copy of exported Tantric Hinduism and Vedanta. Read more: 'Yoga: The Greater Tradition' By david Frawley Mandala, 2008
