--- In [email protected], I am the eternal <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Rick Archer <r...@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Duveyoung > > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:09 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Who's a TM teacher? (Re: Free Web Event: > > McCartney/Lynch) > > > > > > > > Most of the naysayers who are contending that TM is effortless no matter > > what Vaj "comes up with," are not listening to him and grasping his POV well > > enough to come back at him, and instead, are content to� fall back on > > memorized text from Maharishi to be the Vaj-countering argument. > > > > I haven't been following this thread, and Vaj has probably quoted this, but > > on my TTC� (Estes Park, 1970) I clearly remember Maharishi quoting the > > Vedas > > as saying, "Be easy to us with gentle effort." > > Much that I detest Vaj for a big faux pas he committed which he seems > to be blissful unaware of, I've been following what he says and I > restate that he might indeed have indeed "understood" the instructions > and the checking notes but studied other things and now looks at what > he learned on TTC (assuming he was on TTC) with a different mind set, > a different paradigm. Thoughts arise. They arise without effort. > It's the nature of the mind. But there is a gentle effort, an > intention, in doing TM. The decision to take the stream of thoughts > back to the mantra isn't entirely effortless. Yes, as Rick says, it's > "gentle effort" or I like to say that it requires intention. And all > intentions, no matter how subtle, requires some effort, IMO I can see > where he's coming from. If I were to check Vaj right now (I still > remember my checking notes), I'd use gentle effort and intention if he > brought it up first, even though it's not in the checking notes. > > I go back again to just what is an "intention" and a subtle thought at > the level of sanyama? I go along for months without second guessing > myself and then I ask myself if I am truly being subtle, truly > intending the sutra at the level of sanyma. There are times I'm > almost shouting the sutra and I'm getting excellent results and times > when I have such a faint intention about the sutra and I get the > results. I've not had any of this adequately explained though I've > had my research into consciousness checked numerous time. And I've > watch Maharishi's tapes for decades. It's all so very ineffable. >
And, as I said, there are times when its not even "intention." NNT called it "least effort in the direction of less effort." Lawson
