--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are doing it correctly, the level of effort/effortlessness > > remains consistent, though the subjective experience manifests as > > more or less clear. Which you then associate with more or less > > effort. > > > This, then, is confusing to me. > > From what you say above, I infer that one can be doing TM correctly > yet if one were to ask me during a checking procedure whether "it > was easy" I very well may say "no" because I am associating > the "less clear" experience with "more effort"... >
I was making the assumption that you ARE in fact meditating correctly, i.e. don't mind thoughts, take up the mantra easily, etc. and looking for a possible rationale why it wouldn't as a result feel effortless, as it should. Just remember to not look for, or anticipate any specific result during the experience. And if you forget to entertain the mantra during the practice, that's ok too; you'll get it next time around. Don't think about it much. Just do it, and it will take care of itself. There may be a tendency after meditating awhile and having clear experiences which last for awhile to become attached to them. Then when they go away as we jackhammer away new deeper levels of stress, our mediations can get 'noisy' again. And we really want those serene meditations back... So if you are being checked, and are asked 'was it easy?', the checker is just inquiring about the flow of thought, not the quality of it. So even if it is noisy in the mind, the answer if meditating properly, is yes, it was easy. As has been said, 'take it easy, take it as it comes'. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
