news. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was coming—or maybe he was sending someone—to teach us Transcendental Meditation (TM). When the day came, we packed the room for the mysterious robed man, and he taught us a few rudimentary TM techniques. He told us to sit properly, breathe deeply, and empty our minds. While interesting, the swami lost me somewhere between karma and mantra, and I didn’t fall into Zen. The next year I transferred to another school, Columbia International University, where I met a group of people