TM isn't a mindfulness practice in any typical sense of the word used by meditation practitioners, and by anyone else, for that matter.
... other than people who just tack it on and say "TM is mindfuless" without thinking things through (I've done this myself, so I'm pointing more fingers inward than outward, here). L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 5/2/2014 9:45 AM, curtisdeltablues@... mailto:curtisdeltablues@... wrote: I am open to Maharishi's perspective that in fact I am so habituated from his practice that I am not actually practicing a mindfulness practice at all. But my experience leads me to believe that I am having a different subjective experience so I am working with what I have. > This becomes very simple when you realize that TM IS mindfullness. Anything can be an object of meditation - a thought, a sound, a mantra or an image or just being aware of breathing in and out. The idea in both is to transcend thinking and to get beyond discursive reasoning. This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
