As much as ™ itself is said to be effortless meditation it does take some discipline to do. At the outset it is actually something you ‘do’.
I have these old cassette tapes from the India TM teacher training courses with Maharishi, outdoor lectures with crows cawing in the background and such. He says plainly that ™ does take some concentration (in particular) to do, to recognize what is going on and ‘do’ the practice, it requires a little action to do. So yes, TM it could be said is ‘karma yoga’ from that standpoint and then all those old meditators out in coffee shops when they could be meditating, are just ill-disciplined loafers.. ‘taking it easy and taking it as it comes..’ as if that is a spiritual practice in itself. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelon...@yahoo.com> wrote : According to the concordance, on pg 303 of SofB, there's something on karma yoga. Hope this helps. cardemaister offers: At least YF seems to be karma yoga par excellence: simultaneous intense action (karma) and "non-action", samaadhi (yoga)?? On Thursday, July 12, 2018, 1:09:47 AM CDT, eustace10679 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: No, that's not it. I remember reading plainly that TM *is* Karma Yoga, the important issue being that after diving in you *have* ti get out and transfer to the outer world of action the what you got from diving in. That's why in TM extended practice -- without outside action -- is not recommended under normal circumstances and unlike other meditation practices. I remember reading it in the Science of Being -- and I've also read the Commentary. Maharishi's statement was straightforward and it did not involve interpretation. I think everybody should know about it. If anybody has the book handy and haven't read it, This statement remained in my memory as the most interesting in the book. And BTW it was written many years before the introduction of the sidhi program. Eustace -- The Meditation Meter Website http://emf.neocities.org/tm/meditationmeter.html http://emf.neocities.org/tm/meditationmeter.html
