--- 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.
Indeed. Sometimes it's personal experience that leads you to think it's 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. Those of us whose experience is that TM is effortless should STFU? > *Especially* when they do so in the face of state- > ments from Maharishi himself saying that the > reality is more like "minimal effort." I haven't seen one statement from MMY quoted here, or anywhere else, that contradicts my experience in this regard. > 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? "Admitting" this is a problem if it doesn't seem to be the case. Are you that attached > to everything you were told originally being true, > or Truth? Nope.
