--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> 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. > > Except, of course, that it isn't the case even in > this one example. > > I'd suggest it's about a couple of former TMers > feeling panicky because they're realizing they > missed the whole point. >
Or perhaps, they DID get the point (effortlessness, more or less) but believe that some specific *experience* is more valid than the process, so they seek techniques and programs and lifestyles that promote the experience they desire, rather than simply practice TM and live life as it unfolds. > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > ------------------------ 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/
