transcendental

 Question

A reader recently asked about the meaning of the word transcendental.

Answer

Transcendental is an adjective that means “going beyond the limits of ordinary experience, or extraordinary.”  It is most often used in the term transcendental meditation (or TM for short), which describes a method of meditating in which you close your eyes and repeatedly think of a simple sound, word, or phrase (called a mantra).

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