Compare Meditation Techniques -- Zen, Mindfulness And Transcendental Meditation

We get a lot of questions about various meditation techniques.  Let’s compare meditation techniques: Zen, Mindfulness, and Transcendental. It’s important to note that Transcendental Meditation practitioners do NOT like to be included as a concentrative practice (as most objective observers consider their mantra-based techniques).  They believe strongly that their techniques constitute a new, third type of meditation.  This excerpted article comes from the the wonderful

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