Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation Author: Visit Amazon's Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0452282667 | Format: EPUB
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About the Author
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Worldwide Transcendental Meditation Movement, has established meditation centers in all the major cities of the world.
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Plume; Reissue edition (November 1, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0452282667
- ISBN-13: 978-0452282667
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This is a wonderful book. I read it when I was 19 years old because I was interested in spiritual ideas that would lead to a wider view of life, the world, the universe, etc. It certainly did that quite well. If all one wants to know is how to meditate transcendentally, just read the chapter titled "How to Contact Being"; it's really about the easiest thing a person can "learn" how to do. I use quotation marks around learn because most all people meditate in this way all the time; they just don't realize it, or do it systematically.
How do I know? When I was 21 my dear old mother paid $150 for me to take the transcendental meditation course. (She was a physician at a student health center and had seen her patients become healthier as they reduced their anxieties by meditating. Was the benefit psychosomatic, I asked her? Of course, she answered, the health benefits of anxiety/stress reduction are ALL psychosomatic but nonetheless real.) When I first "learned" I worried that "nothing was happening", so I asked my TM instructor. He basically answered that as long as my experience was consistent with the description of meditation in the book's chapter titled "How to Contact Being", then exactly what was supposed to be happening was indeed happening. In fact, as I continued to meditate over the next several days/months/years I became aware that what was happening during meditation was *exactly* as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi describes in the chapter.
As I recall Maharishi Mahesh Yogi points out in the book that meditation is completely natural in the sense people already know, subconsciously, how to do it and do it all the time without knowing it. About 10 years ago I tested this by teaching a friend of mine TM.
i logged on to the site of this maharishi and and in just a few clicks i got to a point where i cannot go beyond if i couldnot spend few hundred bucks. i am in to meditation and its philosophy from my school and i am an indian.(so i know pretty much more about all meditation & hindu philosophy stuff than foreigners and its difficult to foolme) and i have never come across a so called teacher who asks for money to sell his so called secret.
the problem with the meditation is no one will take you in the arms and carry you. you have to walk on your own feet all alone. mark my words" anyone saying "give me some bucks and i will take you there" is only fooling you. money is necessary is for oranizations to spread knowledge. but one can always tell the difference between asking money for survival (in the form of donation and which usually small) or make money(2,500$).
meditation(zen, indian, buddhist) is a subjective science. it has survived from centuries even with out all those statistics these people give.
if you are insearch of a comprehensive book about hindu philosophy and meditation, read "Raja Yoga" by swami vivekananda.
he is the authority on meditation. his life says so. and this book is a beautiful explanation of the yoga sutras of "Patanjali"
the original ancient indian saint, who brought into existance the comprehensive system of yoga.(yoga here is not practising different postures. yoga literally means 'science to know oneself' meditation is but one step in it)( the popular meaning of yoga- which is practising different postures- is actually called 'hathayoga'; B.K.S.Iyengar is the authority here) no one can be a greater authority than sage patanjali in this area.
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