Transcendental Meditation: Revised and Updated Edition

No practical applications just success stories and where to go and learn, While expressing how simple the practice.

I love this book about TM. It gave me the answers to the questions I had in mind about Transcendental Meditation. The book is easy to read and I think I found it particularily interesting reading about other peoples experiences of TM. For anyone thinking of learning meditation, I recommend them to read this book.

This is a very thorough introduction to the Transcendental Meditation technique. It doesn't promise to teach you to meditate so I don't know what all the complaints about that are. If you want the benefits that come from the TM technique, you have to learn it properly, from a trained teacher in a series on meetings and personal instruction. Its impossible to learn the real TM technique from a book. This book does save you the first step of going to learn TM, the Introductory lecture. You can go directly to step 2, the Preparatory Lecture. And then decide if you want the benefits and learn the technique. If you don't want to buy the book, you can read it online at www.TM.org. But its nice to have around so you can read it anywhere and look clearly at the research. Meditation techniques are very different with very different results. The scientific research is clear that other techniques do not bring the wide range of benefits that come with the TM technique. So don't think that reading a book called "how to meditate" is going to give you the proven benefits of the TM program, shown by 600 scientific studies. It won't give you the free lifetime follow-up that comes with TM instruction either. So if you want to learn some sort of "meditation" from a book, don't buy this book. If you want a thorough introduction to the most effective and scientifically-proven stress reduction and self-development technique, you can't go wrong buying this book. Then go to the TM program center and take advantage of the free Preparatory Lecture. You'll have all you need to make a wise decision about whether or not you want to go ahead and learn.

I am 48, a journalist and a TM meditator for almost 30 years. I can honestly say that I could not do all that I do without the technique. I say this because I read Robert Roth's book with some trepidation, concerned that he would make the technique out to be more esoteric or philosophical than it really is. He did not. I liked the book a lot and recommend it to all my friends who are interested in what I am doing for those 20 minutes twice a day.

Unlike a couple of your readers who were expecting to be led to enlightenment by a book I found Robert Roth's introduction to the TM technique to be just that, an introduction. It was clear. It was not misleading. It was a simple read without pretension. I called my local center and learned to meditate. Anyone expecting to learn to meditate from this book simply can't read as it makes no promise of that at any time.