On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Hugo wrote: > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner peace..... > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/08/tanya-gold-meditation > > From my own experience I'll say that TM does not prevent anger, there are no > shortage of stroppy, short fused people in the TMO. The only reason I don't > count myself among there number is that I retain a bit of self awareness and > can hold it back until I've rationalised whether someone deserves a good > kicking or not. > > In fact it was one of the great surprises to me that TM made me very angry > indeed and quite a lot of the time, last thing I expected given the > literature. Shame I was never asked to be in a study about it's effects, > might have swayed the figures a bit. > > So what causes anger in meditators? Is it unstressing or an imbalance > somewhere or the release of repressed urges and the revealing of my "true" > self? Or am I just a miserable git who wants to destroy the world? > > Maybe TM is unsuitable for some people and we'd be better off doing a > different, less fraught, type.
My guess is it has less to do with the meditation and much more to do with the moodmakers who push it, often insisting on two separate sets of rules. Who wouldn't be in a bad mood after dealing with those uptight, repressed nerds? Sal
