Vincent J. Daczynski
2020
This is a book about my training to become a teacher of Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) under the guidance of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. My journey to become a TM teacher began even before I was initiated into the practice of Transcendental Meditation. It happened quite spontaneously while I was attending an introductory lecture by the Maharishi at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Something just clicked; a heartfelt connection had occurred during Maharishi’s closing remarks, when he stated, “Let one man in 100,000 step forward to become a teacher of my meditation in his community.” I knew then that I had to be that one man in 100,000. After I began the practice of Transcendental Meditation I realized from my own transformational experience that Maharishi’s teachings were very special. And I was sure that in time that Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation as a means of rapid spiritual development would spread to become a historic event. Therefore, I was compelled to document my experiences over the ensuing fifty years, as my personal validation of the effectiveness of the TM technique. I kept a detailed diary: that documentation has led me to write Autobiography of A Brooklyn Yogi. In writing my autobiography I included five chapters about my introduction to Transcendental Meditation and becoming a teacher of TM. But as I wrote, I realized that my abridged account of my teacher training was insufficient; I had so much more that I wanted to include. By copying the five chapters from my autobiography I was able to expand on the material and provide much more details and many more pictures than I would have otherwise been able to do in the context of a more general fifty-year overview. Hence, a separate book evolved: "Becoming a Teacher of Transcendental Meditation." "Becoming a Teacher of Transcendental Meditation" is an account of just one year of my life, nevertheless it was the most transformational year of my life. Therefore, this period of time de
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