Twice a day, twenty minutes, sitting in a chair with the eyes closed — usually before breakfast and again in the late afternoon. There is no posture, no breathing technique, no incense, no diet and no community requirement, and this is not an accident: Maharishi designed the delivery for people with jobs. Teachers check practice at intervals after the course, free of charge, and long-term meditators are unusually likely to still be doing it decades later, which is rare among meditation techniques and is the movement's strongest practical claim.