What is the Catholic church's teaching on transcendental m meditation?

Answer 1

Some Christian leaders and clergy find Transcendental Meditation compatible with their religious teachings and beliefs while others do not. Catholic monk Wayne Teasdale writes in his book ''The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions'', that Transcendental Meditation "is what is called an open or receptive method" that can be described as giving up control and remaining open in an inner sense. In 1968, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, "came to the support of Maharishi's theory." Trappist monks in Spencer, Massachusetts, say they find it useful. But in 1984, Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila, wrote a pastoral statement after Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos invited more than 1,000 members of the TM movement to Manila, saying that neither the doctrine nor the practice of TM is acceptable to Christians. In 2003, the Roman Curia, a Vatican council, published a warning against mixing eastern meditations, such as TM, with [[Christian prayer. Other Clergy who practice the TM technique and find it compatible with their religious beliefs include: Catholic Father Len Dubi and Donald Craig Drummon, a Presbyterian minister. In 2013, Monsignor Raffaello Martinelli, servicing Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, having worked for over 23 years with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), said that for his Meditation, a Christian can learn from other religious traditions (zen, yoga, controlled respiration, Mantra): "As long as the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions, we should not despise these indications since non-Christian. Instead, we can collect from them what is useful, provided you never lose sight of the Christian conception of prayer, its logic and requirements, since it is within this that all these fragments must be reformulated and assumed.