--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snip) > "> Effortless in TM spin was merely a way of saying it was easy. > Later it became an > > amalgamated as part of the dogma--and we all simply "believed". > > > I'd put it this way, before enlightenment all is effort and > afterwards, by definition there is no effort. I always found TM to > be easy, but never thought about whether or not it was effortless." > > Why not just think of it this way: > You sit and have the 'Intention' of meditating... > There is no effort in that. > Just the intention to begin, and let happen what happens. > The mantra becomes just an impulse, then fades; > Thoughts come and go, and we easily come back to the impulse of the > mantra. > Mantra has thousands of different expressions of impulse, perhaps > almost an infinite number of impulses; > Just as a song cannot be sung two ways exactly the same. > So, it is with TM; > It's different every time, if you are innocent. > TM is to teach the mind to be innocent. > To notice and experience the 'witness' of thought, of the mantra, > and the activity of transcending, in a systematic way. > The Siddhi Techniques are the same: Just Intention, same thing. > And Maharishi always says, that the 'Quietest level is the most > powerful'. > Just the finest, most innocent intention will do... > R.G. >
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