--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > It just occurred to me (tangentially) that part
> > of the confusion between TM and other mantra
> > meditation techniques has to do with the erroneous
> > equation of these two principles:
> >
> > --It's better to go back to the mantra if
> > you realize you're thinking something
> > other than the mantra.
> >
> > --It's better to be thinking the mantra
> > than thinking something other than the
> > mantra.
> >
> > These are seemingly almost identical statements,
> > but the distinction is crucial. In the case of TM,
> > the first applies, but not the second.
>
>
> But in both cases there is the quality
> of "better."
>
> Pursuing that "better" by coming back
> to the mantra involves intention.
>
> And it involves it whether you believe
> statement #1 or statement #2. If you
> did not believe in that "better," there
> would be no reason to come back to the
> mantra. But you DO believe it, so you
> have the intention to come back to it.
>
> Thank you, Judy, for having made the
> case for TM being intentional.
>
The case for intentionality is well made...
What is ever done which is not from intention?
Intention is the seed of manifestation.
So, yes, we intend to sit and meditate or how else could you sit and meditate.
You intend to get something to eat; how else would you get something to eat.
The whole nature of TM and the TM-Sidhis, is to refine intention.
As intention is refined we begin to be aware of subltety...
And the more subtle the observation, the more truth will be contained there,
because it is close to the source.
We are all longing for and striving toward being connected to 'Source Energy',
our true nature...
That's all it is, no matter how complicated you wish to make it, the simpler
the better.
R.G.
