--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: <snip> > > What Maharishi did, IMHO, was to think deeply > > about the nature of intention, of mental effort, > > and how easy it was for instruction to lead the > > student to exert effort--and then to figure out > > how to *get around* that tendency, how to lead > > the student to *fall into* correct meditation > > rather than telling them how to "do" it. > > ----- > > > > Corrections, amplifications, etc., from TM teachers > > are welcome. > > Perfect! And one has to remember that some of the effortless > forms of meditation now available are knock-offs of TM > (Chopra's for example, and another one called Effortless > Meditation), and like most knock-offs, likely to be not as > good as the original.
Which is why the "purity of the teaching" is so crucial with regard to TM instruction. It takes very little to throw the whole thing off. > Another thing to remember, I think, is that MMY first > introduced this technique to the West in the late 1950s > and early 1960s. There was nothing else like it available > at the time. Since then the principle of effortlessness > in meditation has passed into the New Age mind-set, so > some offerings do indeed echo that principle, but it was > MMY who first brought it to people's attention, 50 years > ago. It's part of his legacy. Good point. It's entirely possible, I think, that somebody somewhere with deep insight into the nature of intention and effort and the nature and mechanics of consciousness could *improve* on Maharishi's instructions. How's that for heresy?
