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What is Transcendental Meditation? What is transcending? Wheredo you go when you transcend? And what good is it to transcend? Tohelp answer these questions, Ive done a little drawingand you canrefer to it from time to time. You will notice a line at the top of the

drawing representing the surface of life. We live on the surface andsee surfaces everywhere. This right side represents matter and theleft side will represent mind. Mind and matter.

About 300 years ago, scientists started wondering: what was matter,what was wood, what was air, what was water, what was flesh, etc?And they started looking into matter and they began to find things things that we now learn about in school. They found cells andmolecules. They went deeper and found atoms; they went deeperand deeper, all the way down to the tiniest particles the elementaryparticles.

They found four forces that act upon the particles. And on a deeperlevel, they found that the four forces became three. Some unificationstarted. And, on a deeper level, the three forces became two. About35 years ago, modern science, quantum physics, discovered theUnified Field at the base of all matter. This field is the unity of all theparticles and all the forces of creation. This is a field of nothing, butthe scientists say that out of this nothing emerges everything that is

a thing. This Unified Field is unmanifest yet all manifestation comesfrom this field.

Ancient Vedic science, the science of consciousness, has alwaysknown of this field. Believers say that it is an eternal unboundedocean of consciousness. And this consciousness has qualities. So thisUnified Field, this ocean of consciousness, is a field of unboundedintelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness,unbounded love, energy and peace.

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, an ancient form ofmeditation brought back for this time by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Itis a technique that allows any human being to dive within, throughsubtler levels of mind and intellect, and thentranscendthatis experience, that ocean of pure consciousness at the base of allmind and matter to experience this Unified Field within with thoseall-positive qualities.

In Transcendental Meditation youre given a mantra. A mantra is avery specific sound vibration - thought. The mantra that Maharishi

gives is like a law of nature designed for a specific purpose and thatpurpose is to turn the awareness 180 degrees from out, out, out to

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within, within, within. Once pointed within, one will dive easily andeffortlessly. It is easy and effortless because the nature of the humanmind is always to want to go to fields of greater happiness.

Each deeper level of mind and each deeper level of intellect has more

and more happiness charm, as they say. So the happiness growingis like a magnet that gently pulls us within. And at the border ofintellect, one then transcends and experiences the transcendent, theUnified Field, the ocean of pure consciousness, the kingdom ofheaven that lies within the Tao, the home of total knowledge, beingor divine being; Atma, meaning the Self, the Self with a capital S.

Theres a line weve all heard: Know thyself. This is the Self theyretalking about. This field is also known as Brahm, meaning totality.First seek the kingdom of heaven that lies within and all else will beadded unto you. All else is totality.

Every time a human being transcends, they infuse some of this all-positive consciousness and they truly begin to expand whateverconsciousness they had to begin with. There is a side effect toexpanding consciousness, and that side effect is that negativity

begins to recede. Things like stress, traumatic stress, anxieties,tension, sadness, depression, hate, anger, rage and fear start to liftaway very naturally.

The analogy is: negativity is just like darkness. When this light ofconsciousness begins to truly expand, it is like being in a dark room

with a light on a dimmer. As the light gets brighter, the darknessstarts to go. And when the light is full on, there is no darkness.Likewise with the light of unity consciousness growing,negativity very naturally starts to recede, automatically and without

you having to worry about it. This heavy weight of negativity liftinggives such a joyful feeling of freedom to a human being. So you couldsay the person practising Transcendental Meditation each day is

infusing gold and getting rid of garbage.

Transcending is the key word!!! Transcending is truly experiencingthat deepest eternal level of life. It is this experience that doeseverything good for a human being. Every human being hasconsciousness but not every human being has the same amount. Thegood news is, every human being has the potential for infiniteconsciousness. Every time you experience this ocean ofconsciousness within, you expand more and more consciousness and

you are unfolding your full potential as a human being. The full

potential of the human being is called enlightenment infiniteconsciousness, infinite happiness, total fulfilment. Totality.

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Transcending is a holistic experience, meaning that all avenues oflife will start improving. The things that used to stress you will still

be out there in the world but they will not be able to hit you so hard.Youll still be able to feel sadness butthe sadness wont last so long.

It will lift away more quickly. The same with anger; the anger willleave more quickly. It wont stay with you and poison you and theenvironment. Fears begin to lift you work in more and morefreedom. This is a field of infinite creativity. You will see creativityand problem-solving start to expand. Through research, scientistsknow that IQ can go up because of transcending each day.

Happiness comes more and more and you feel good in your bodyand enjoy the doing of things more and more. The field within is afield of universal love. This universal love feeds personal love and

relationships improve. This field within is a field of infinite energy.People today are so fatigued and here within each of us is an infiniteamount of energy to fuel our work and play. There is infinite peace

within and that is deep, deep contentment, harmony, coming upinside the human being. It is so beautiful.

Transcendental Meditation is, as I said, easy and effortless. Manypeople might think that because it is easy it is not as good as othermeditation techniques. This is wrong thinking. Concentration formsof meditation, contemplation forms of meditation, will keep a

human being hovering on the surface. There will be no transcending.And it is hard work and it is boring and the reward is not there.

Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is atechnique that has been here many times before and it is a blessing.It is the real thing. It works. Brain research scientists have found a

wondrous thing. When a human being truly transcends, hooked upto an EEG machine, then the full brain gets engaged in concert. Theycall this total brain coherence.

Transcending is the only experience in life that gives this total braincoherence. Any other thing we do utilises different small parts of the

brain, this small part for painting, another small part formathematics, that small part for playing the piano, and so on.Scientists have always told us before that we use only 5 per cent or10 per cent of our brain but transcending is an experience thatutilises the full brain.

This shows us something of the relationship of the human being tothis glorious Unified Field within. The more we transcend, the more

this coherence stays with us and this eventually gives rise to higherstates of consciousness, culminating with supreme enlightenment.

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On the EEG machine, Transcendental Meditation meditators areseen to transcend many times in each 20-minute meditation. Thosemeditators who practise concentration or contemplation forms ofmeditation do not transcend. They do not get the experience of that

ocean of bliss consciousness, the Unified Field.A ten-year-old child can practise this technique of TranscendentalMeditation; a 110-year-old can do it, easily and effortlessly, and they

will each get the experience they are yearning for. It is a sublimeexperience to transcend and feel that rejuvenation and thathappiness and all those other all-positive qualities growing.

Transcendental Meditation is not a religion. People from all religionspractise this technique and they see there is no conflict with theirreligion. On the contrary, they say they understand and appreciatetheir religion more because understanding and appreciation for allthings grow by transcending each day. It is a technique for human

beings, no matter what walk of life, what religion or where you arefrom. People who have experienced great suffering have gotten thistechnique and happily said, Now I have my life back again. Thereal story is: THE NATURE OF LIFE IS BLISS and THEINDIVIDUAL IS COSMIC.

Russell Brands article in this paper is about revolution. Revolutions

are usually associated with violence or force. TranscendentalMeditation leads to a beautiful, peaceful revolution. A change fromsuffering and negativity to happiness and a life more and more freeof any problems. The secret has always been within. We just need atechnique that works to get us there to unfold a most beautifulfuture.

David Lynch