Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with relativism is that it has a tendency to instill too much tolerance. A short and sweet example: By my senior year in high school, some of the world history teachers were already drilling into us the multicultural mantra, "Not better or worse, just different." Let's just say it came back to haunt them when we discussed the practice of widow-burning in India. The moral of this story? Any coherent argument for tolerance must allow room for critical disagreement. Tolerance should be clearly distinguished from indifference...
...deity is still Bacchus. Most of the songs are uptempo exhortations -- anthems for Animal House. The rollicking Everything Louder Than Everything Else has a mantra ("A wasted youth is better by far/ Than a wise and productive old age") that could be the fight song for the University of Wisconsin marching band...
...while the center was forthcoming about the benefits of TM, no one there would talk about what actually happens in their method of meditation. In an interview, all the director of the center would reveal is that the TM student receives a special mantra the first time he or she meets the teacher. The mantra remains the meditator's secret, as does the meditation process...
According to Atwood, the mantra is not specifically tailored to the individual. There are only six mantras, which he hypothesizes correspond to three age groups and the two sexes. In other words, if Atwood is right, every young woman would get the same mantra...
...process of meditation, as Atwood related it, is simple. A person sits quietly and lets his or her mind wander. The person says the mantra whenever it enters the mind, and then lets the mind wander again, repeating the mantra whenever it naturally enters...