The shared center — held across the tradition
Effortlessness is the whole instruction.
TM is not concentration and not mindfulness. The mantra is allowed to become faint and to go; trying is treated as the one error a beginner reliably makes.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
It is a technique, not a religion — and a court disagreed.
The organisation teaches TM in schools and prisons on the ground that it requires no belief. In 1979 the Third Circuit held that the course, with its Sanskrit puja, was religious for Establishment Clause purposes.
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