--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand" <premanandp...@...> wrote: > > It is reported that there is to be a recall of faulty techniques by the > meditation conglomerate MahaMcRishi International. It seems that people have > experienced problems or failures in their meditation programs due to > technique problems which have now been sorted. Anyone wishing to upgrade can > do so free-of-charge by using the technique 'fix'. > Former TM advocate and author Paul Mason is quoted as saying; 'I find that by > not using a mantra but otherwise using the TM instructions of quietening the > mind, and letting go of thoughts, but treating the mantra as just another > thought, the profundity of the meditation is increased many-fold. In fact > there is no proper comparison between TM and mantra-freeTM. The one is like a > bicycle with stabilisers and the other like a state-of-the-art submarine.' >
Is this a koan Paul? "by not using a mantra...but treating the mantra as just another thought" ;-)