What about the tummo meditators that use considerable effort in their meditation but have 4 times lowers metabolic rate than TM?
It's a mistake to try to compare different types of meditation by the same criteria used for TM, unless you happen to be comparing to other forms of mantra yoga... Different types of meditation work differently. On May 20, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Robert Gimbel wrote: > I feel that we are all in the process of learning effortlessness, and > the importance of intention on the path to realization. > The more we transcend and experience pure consciousness, presence as > Eckhart Tolle, likes to call it, the more effortless our life becomes. > It is only the egoic part of our mind, that think it needs to make > effort. When we transcend the ego mind, and experience the universal > mind, then effort becomes a meaningless concept. Does, this make sense. > By the way, the ego, or mind can never understand this concept, which > is why enlightenment is a state of consciousness and not a nice story > for the mind to contemplate. 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/
