TM Centre Phutthamonthon

What is Transcendental Meditation? Transcendental Meditation (TM) is the most practiced (6 million practitioners), most widely researched (600 studies), and, according to the research, the most relaxation technique in the world. How TM works All 8 billion human beings on this planet are different, but there is one thing we all have in common: we all want to be happy. Happiness is like gravity for the mind, and the mind will be spontaneously drawn to any enjoyable experience. The state of being yourself – coming home – is the most enjoyable state there is for the mind, and the mind will be drawn to this experience more than anything else. All we have to do is put the mind in the right direction and then allow this natural process to take place (which means means that we don’t try to control or concentrate the mind). This requires a specific technique and a specific course to learn it, but once the TM technique is taught correctly there are really only 2 requirements for it to work: 1. You can think a thought. 2. Your mind is looking for happiness. FOUNDER How did Maharishi discover TM? The generally accepted wisdom about meditation was that it was a way for the mind to come to inner silence, and that this was achieved by forcing the mind to rest, usually through a form of concentration on a word, a sound, or a visual point, or through visualisation techniques. The mind soon gets bored with this and will want to go somewhere else, but we will tell it: “no, stay here, stay focused”. At some point the mind will grow so tired from all the effort from that concentration, that it will check out. At that point one may (possibly) find deeper experiences, although usually the mind is so tired that the experiences will hardly ever be very clear.