--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > <snip> > > We *insist* that it's effortless because it's our > > experience that it only *works* if it's effortless. > > It isn't a matter of "belief." > > P.S.: Actually, Lawson maintains that effort is > not needed, not that effortlessness is essential. > I'm not sure I agree with him on this, but I > think it may be a matter of semantics. >
It's more a matter of introducing subtle effort worrying about effort. Knowing that it's not needed, you don't feel a need to introduce it, but at the same time, you dno't feel a need to obsess about whether or not your effortless enough--the natural tendency is for the mind to transcend anyway, so the person's experience with "how to" meditate will naturally become less and less over time, anyway--IF he/she doesn't worry about the degree of effort or effortlessness involved beyond simply "thinking the mantra like any other thought." 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/
