--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" > tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlist@ wrote: > > > > I have no answer to any of the technical questions you have asked. I > > would like to share a few things that have popped up for me here. One > > of the guys here in FF recently commented that he now feels like he is > > transcending out. He has gone in so much and so many times. that there > > is no where to go except to transcend out in activity. It made a > > difference for me to look at it that way. It feels like I am > > meditating 24/7 and that if I close my eyes I just sit in silence with > > no apparent mantra. > > So you decide to not think the mantra any more during meditation practice because its not > necessary... > > > Sounds like a lovely and seductive trap to me. > > > Lawson >
I disagree. Eventually the mantra becomes irrelevant to meditation. One technique I enjoy from time to time is to sit quietly and allow attention to be fixed. If attention waivers I bring it to center again. The mantra is involved in a way, but it is no longer recognizable as a sound. It merely becomes a focal point for attention. This is no more of a seductive trap than any other form of meditation TM or otherwise. Its a matter of understanding there is more than one way to approach the time sitting. Each technique offers different experiences. I would not advise first time meditators to experiment, but for long time practitioners Playing with meditation is part of the yoga. In fact not being fixed on one technique is part of the basis for yoga. If this were not true Patanjali would have written one sutra and saved himself and others time and energy. s.
