Meditation Techniques And Schools

Here you'll find short presentations of various meditation techniques and schools available today. There are hundreds of different techniques, but they are all based upon the two pure types of meditation: mantra and mindfulness.

Discover why two types of meditation evolved into hundreds of techniques.

From one extreme to the other, Transcendental meditation is the technique closest to mantra meditation, while Vipassana meditation is closest to mindfulness meditation.

On a side note, the reason Transcendental meditation (TM) has been so hugely successful in Western societies is probably because TM is based upon focus (mantra) and speaks to our goal-oriented attachments. TM has also been aggressively marketed by goal-oriented followers, who often claim that their technique is the best. Such claims easily happen when someone focuses too hard on any given subject.

Anyway, I'll be mostly objective while we review the various techniques...

Vipassana/Insight Meditation - A Mindfulness method.

• S. N. Goenka - Vipassana Teacher.

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - TM Founder And Teacher.

• Deepak Chopra - Maharishi Yogi's TM student branching out.