--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:50 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "hyperbolicgeometry"
> > <hyperbolicgeometry@> wrote:
> > >
> > > ---Effortless or not (nothing in the world is "absolutely"
> > > effortless btw); the key point is Transcendental awareness.
> > > If it (pure Consciousness, Self-awareness), occurs for you
> > > regardless of the amount of effort, excellent.
> >
> > Yup. This whole tempest in a teapot is about a few
> > TMers feeling panicky because they're realizing that
> > the simplistic portrayal of TM as 'effortless' isn't
> > quite true.
>
> And it goes deeper than this one example.
>
> > They're jumping on the issue of 'effortlessness'
> > and beating it deader than a dead horse so that
> > they can avoid thinking about what *other* things
> > that were told to them might not be true.
> >
> > In other words, it's an exercise in attachment...
>
> ...and aversion/denial. It's amazing what one little
> comment can do.
Indeed. A couple of people mention that they've learned
techniques of meditation that are either as effortless
as TM or (in their opinion) more so, someone posts a
quote from Maharishi himself stating that TM isn't
completely effortless, and the shit hits the fan. :-)
People start jumping all over each other, normally-
mutually-supportive TBs start arguing with each other
over whose meditation is more effortless and thus more
superior, a normally non-TB poster becomes a private
dick with a mission from God to "prove" TM the only
effortless technique available, and it goes on and
on and on for hundreds if not thousands of lines.
And all because two simplistic pieces of dogma ("TM is
effortless" and "TM is unique") have been repeated so
often that some people have come to believe that they're
up there with the Word Of God, sacrosanct, never to be
questioned or challenged. It's all pretty funny, actually.
Unless, of course, you happen to be one of the ones for
whom the Word Of God has been questioned...then it's
obviously deadly serious.
WHAT DOES IT MATTER whose technique is more effortless,
or whether the TM technique is "unique" or not? In this
whole brouhaha, it seems to me that sparaig and hyperbolic
have the right idea -- if the technique works for them,
WHERE'S THE PROBLEM? But others seem to be acting like
if they allow even one insignificant point of the TM
dogma to be challenged, then the whole teaching and
belief system is going to fall apart for them like
a house of cards.
Weird, if you ask me...
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