"Deep within is the infintied value of energy, intelligence, and happiness. Experiencing that state, we feel fulfilled." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Poland Springs, Maine (1968).
"The technique of action is to pull the arrow back six inches, and then it flies ahead two furlongs." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, addressing the Harvard University Law Forum (1970).
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Transcendental Meditation: a natural technique
Maharishi talks about the "least excited" state of consciousness, where the mind is completely settled and silent. "Any effort to accomplish that settled state will always keep the mind in an excited state." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Merv Griffin Show, spring 1975.
"Our quest for knowledge can only be satisfied by developing the mind, developing the container of knowledge." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking to the Harvard University Law Forum (1970).
"Material life is absolutely compatible with spiritual experience....This is call knowledge." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking to the Harvard University Law Forum, 1970.
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Q:Does Transcendental Meditation make you passive?
Maharishi answers the question: "Does Transcendental Meditation make you passive?" Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Merv Griffin Show, spring 1975.
Maharishi answers the question: "In Transcendental Meditation, what do you meditate about?" Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking to the Harvard Law School Forum (1970).
There are two sides to knowledge: the object of knowledge, and the knower. Present education provide knowledge of the object but misses knowledge of the knower. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking to the American Association of Higher Education in Houston, Texas. (1973)
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Transcendental Meditation: Mechanics of the technique
The Transcendental Meditation technique uses the natural tendency of the mind to go toward greater happiness, so the mind effortlessly transcends to its most silent state. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968.
We are all thinking all the time - but where do all these thoughts come from? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking at Lake Louise, Canada (1968).
Communications and Media student Eric Boyd tells his weird experience when he first learned about Maharishi University and Transcendental Meditation.
Filmmaker David Lynch answers the question: "You said that you get rid of your aggression and anxiety by practicing Transcendental Meditation. But isn't it rather your filmmaking that is a therapy?"
Maharishi University student Puki Freeberg explains how the knowledge and experience of consciousness relates to quantum physics.
Sustainable Living student Mike Cook talks about our future with the Earth.
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Around Campus: Transcendent poetry of Emily Dickinson
Professor Nynke Passi relates one of Emily Dickinson's poems to the experience of transcending, going deep within consciousness to experience the Self.
Join us for a Visitors Weekend at Maharishi University. Meet students and faculty, tour our campus, attend special events, sit in on classes. Organic vegetarian meals.
The Tao-te Ching, a classic of the literature of enlightenment, expresses the same reality of life as the Vedic literature of India. Speaker: Dr. Bevan Morris, President of Maharishi University of Management.
Moby, with Laura Dawn and Darren Murphy, live from Maharishi University of Management. From the David Lynch Weekend, April 27, 2008.
Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons talks about what is cool, happiness, toys, focus, and education -- in the context of practicing Transcendental Meditation.
Inner development along with traditional academics: Maharishi University students and faculty talk about their experience with Consciousness-Based education.
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