--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > However, to rule out the word effort entirely would be a mistake > > > as well IMO, it has commonly been referred to as an *effortless > > > effort* which would be accurate. > > > > This is MMY's phrase, and it would be important to > > have the full context in which he uses it. It isn't > > clear to me that "effortless effort" means "just a > > little effort," nor is that my experience of TM. I > > suspect he had something else in mind. > > So do I. I've seen the phrase repeated here many times but never > accompanied by any full context. As a TM teacher trained by > Maharishi in 1970, I never heard him use the words "effortless > effort" and I would like to see the exact full context he is > claimed to have used it in.
My guess: He was using the phrase either with regard to a specific situation (as I suggested in reference to BillyG's citation of "favor the mantra"), or he was using it in response to a question from someone who had gotten all tied up in analyzing the semantics of instruction, to get them to stop analyzing by giving them a phrase that couldn't be parsed. As I said to BillyG, semantics is important in TM instruction; but it's useful only up to a point. Ultimately, analysis reveals only where analysis has to stop. > But it's refreshing to see BillyG's reminder of the important > and critical specific difference in Maharishi's TM intsruction > compared to 'any' other meditation instruction. Yup.
