--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vaj wrote: > > >On Jun 25, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > >>I also find that some > >>gentle attentiveness vs. allowing the mind to just mess around makes a > >>big > >>difference in terms of clarity and frequency of transcending. > >> > >>At Estes Park, M quoted the Vedas as saying, "Be easy to us with gentle > >>effort." > >> > >> > >> > > > >And indeed this very simple attentiveness--or mindfulness--is one of > >the key antidotes to laxity and torpor. But of course this is not > >taught as part of TM, it's sad Rick that this is buried in some old > >tape and not integrated into practice. I don't know about you, but I've > >met a good number of meditators who ended up being drained by such > >torpor. Laxity is believed to be a intentional mental process where the > >meditative object (in this case Self or mantra) is not perceived with > >vividness. Once meditation reaches the "effortless" stage (where one > >simply sits and can transcend for at least an hour at a time with no > >breaks) this tends to disappear as delusion is dissolved. Without > >mindfulness and some forcefulness its hard if not impossible to get to > >the deeper levels of meditation. I always liked the analogy of > >Shakyamuni of having the lute strings 'not to tight or not to loose'; > >that's just how mindfulness is. > > > >It's said that if torpor is not conquered, ones intelligence will > >decrease. Now there'd be an interesting scientific study! :-) > > > > > > > > > Doing japa with a mala or counting with the fingers often helps > mindfulness and increases the intensity of the meditation.
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