--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Who's a TM teacher? (Re: Free Web Event: > McCartney/Lynch) > > > > According to Rick the Vedas says "Be easy to the meditators with gentle > effort". > > I didn't make up the quote. I'm quoting Maharishi verbatim. He repeated the > quote many times in that lecture and it isn't a long one - "Be easy to us > with gentle effort" - so it's not hard to remember accurately. Interpret it > how you will, but Maharishi was very clear in explaining that there is a > sort of effort involved in TM, but that it is so gentle or subtle that > "effort" is not the appropriate word to describe it, and that using that > word would be misleading and probably cause people to overdo it. Perhaps > Cardemeister can find the actual passage Maharishi was quoting, and we can > see what it means in its original context. >
And "effort" is certainly misleading because even "intent" is too harsh a word. L.
