--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 9/20/06 10:18 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Quoting an earlier post from Vaj: > > > > "At Estes Park Maharishi pointed out that there really > > was some effort in TM. He quoted the Vedas as saying, > > 'Be easy to us with gentle effort.'" > > > > Obviously we'd need a great deal more context to > > know whether Maharishi was using this quote to > > describe TM as involving some effort. Who is being > > addressed in the quote? It appears to be a request > > of some kind, but who is making the request, and > > of whom? And how would one entity making a request > > of another entity to "be easy to us" relate to TM? > > > It related to TM. I was there. I had a feeling that Maharishi was > experimenting a bit by bringing up the quote. He only mentioned it in one > lecture. >
On my TTC at the end when we learned the last part of the teaching, we met with MMY and he asked us if we had any concerns before we went into that final phase. A fellow from France stood up and said that he had a problem with his own meditation: that every time he thought the mantra that he wanted to shout it out. After talking with him for a few minutes and sort of diagnosing what the situation was, Maharishi said to him: okay, look at my arm. I want you to think the mantra every time I move my arm up. And then he started to, very slowly at first, move his arm up and down. Then he started doing it faster and then really fast. And then he started to giggle. I forget what the outcome of all this was and whether the French guy was satisfied but what struck me was that in order to do what MMY said to do -- think the mantra every time he saw MMY's arm go up -- that effort was involved. Now, I know that this whole episode was a sort of "clinic" and all and it was all in context of this particular person's unusual meditation experience, but that's what struck me at the time: that MMY gave an instruction that necessarily required effort. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
