What does TM(Transcendental Meditation) do?Is it worth doing?Have you experienced improvements to your life?

Question

....by using TM?Is it better or worse or the same as other meditation techniques?

Answer 1

Hang on, I emailed a guy who knows about this and asked him to answer your question...

EDIT and there he is, thanks Brian!! :)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you look at the questions in my profile, you'll see a reference to TM in one of the earliest ones (end of the list). I explain quite a bit in "additional details".

I would not recommend TM now I'm a Christian. Its initiation ceremony is based on Hindu tradition and the semi-worship of the line of gurus who handed this knowledge down. In the West it is presented as merely a scientifically proven relaxation technique, but when you go further into it it's really straight Hinduism (a relatively pure and deep form of it, in fact).

I think there are a lot of important truths available in it, but since they're mixed with what I now know are falsehoods I give you fair warning.

For someone like me who was so stubbornly closed to the idea of God, it was maybe the only route to finding Him that He could give me. In the advanced literature they speak of God-consciousness and Maharishi (the guy behind it) has written a translation and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita which I carried all around India in 1978-9 when I had only a sleeping bag and the clothes I stood up in besides it. This refers not only to Krishna, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, but to Brahman, the ultimate Creator in Hinduism, the cosmic force of perfect quietness and power which Maharishi compares to both the Christian God and to the truths of quantum physics.

This seems OK until you realise that God is personal, an individual who gave rise to the whole nature of personality, while Brahman is taken to be impersonal, just a cosmic force.

Answer 4

You have a subtle body and a gross body. The senses operate the gross body. But in TM you suspend their activity and activate your subtle body which is lighter than the gross body. You feel like flying. You enlarge your universe and feel the greatness of the universe and experience the Truth.

Answer 5

Only experience can explain.