On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:25 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > Yeah, but as I say, effortlessness in the TM sense > > > > *can't* be an expectation. You can only expect > > > > *something*, you can't expect *nothing*. Or to put > > > > it another way, any expectation of effortlessness > > > > that you might have wouldn't be effortlessness in the > > > > TM experiential sense. An expectation is > > > > intellectual; effortlessness isn't. Apples and > > > > oranges. > > > > > > But you are the one who said that people who don't have YOUR > > > experience haven't "gotten" TM. That's an expectation, by > > > definition. > > > > An expectation of what? And how would it affect one's > > practice? > > > > Expectations effect everything we do. If you expect TM to include a > certain kind of experience than you're practicing that experience.
It is a form of mindfullness....As is "remembering" to bring awareness back to the mantra or even once subconsciously conditioned "automatic reacquisition" of the mantra impulse--called "patched" placement and "close' placement in previous examples. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
