Word: mantra
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...Dudley White were prescribing what seemed at the time high levels of exercise for some heart patients. Meditators preached that it was good to turn inward and attune oneself to subrational body rhythms (runners report that their rhythms of breathing and striding can have the calming effect of a mantra). And if you were what you ate, as the organic-food munchers scolded, who wanted to be a Hostess Twinkie...
...mild-mannered facade, he was the greatest superhero of all, vulnerable to only one substance: Cronkite. And Brinkley was alone. All the other superheroes were dead or useless. Snoopy was missing in action after the Red Baron finally shot him down. Wonder Woman was working for Ms. Magazine. Captain Mantra was in a suburban sanitarium, after swearing off the use of his superpowers when he witnessed the death of his sister Mary. An Amtrak train obliterated her after Dr. Spock bound and gagged her on the tracks...
...picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...
...Lear jet. "I'm a very practical person," he says. "I found that with TM I could take life's pressures better. My mind was clearer, and I had a better disposition. The darndest thing about it is that all you have to do is say your mantra twice...
Whatever it has borrowed from Hinduism, TM does owe something to religious tradition, and all major religions?Christianity, Judaism and Islam, as well as the Eastern faiths?at one time or another have included both meditation and the repetition of a mantra-like word. "Clasp this word tightly in your heart so that it never leaves no matter what may happen," advised a 14th century Christian treatise, The Cloud of Unknowing. "This word shall be your shield and your spear...