--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > > > > > "No effort on this path is every wasted" -- Krishna, > > > > *Bhagavad Gita* > > > > "No effort is wasted because no effort is used!" -MMY commentary. > > There are times when reading FFL is like reading a > forum on which most people's education stopped at > the sixth grade. This is one of those times. > > Just because you were told something 'way back > when doesn't make it true. > > I find it mind-boggling that people are still so > attached to the "effortlessness" meme that they > are still willing to defend it as if it were true. > *Especially* when they do so in the face of state- > ments from Maharishi himself saying that the > reality is more like "minimal effort."
I agree with you here, so statements like this are more an approximation, or true seen from a sort of absolute level. I remember on my TTC, when we did checking every day, we all started to think that we do it somehow wrong. I defenitly thought so, until Maharishi himself explained it in a tape, it must have been a fairly common phenomenon. In learning, and repeating the phrases, we of course *tryed* to do it right, and this intention, unvoluntarily created quite some effort. All we could do is relax, take it easy, and wait till this phase was over. In a way, much of it is the confirmation that you are doing it alright, which relaxes people. > Where's the problem with admitting that you were > given a gross oversimplification aimed at novices > originally, and that later, when pinned down on > the issue, even Maharishi admitted that it *was* > a gross oversimplification? Are you that attached > to everything you were told originally being true, > or Truth? >
