"sparaig" wrote: > I've solved complex math problems while sorta/almost thinking the mantra. Its > only when you note the mantra isn't part of your mental landscape that the > choice > arises, and adding 524,288 to itself to get 1,048,576 is no harder to do > while > thinking the mantra than not. In fact, I often find it easier to do WHILE > thinking the mantra, but this also is a trap.
Spare Egg, I believe you've just told us that you are not practicing TM. Hoping the mantra "sorta" continues while one is "halfway" putting the attention on other mental processes is not following the instructions. One must "innocently favor the mantra." But, yes, while the mantra is attended, other processes by the millions are happening too, and any of them could become an object of attention, and many of them will convincingly be "better fruit that beguiles the monkey-mind to jump off of the mantra branch." Thus the instruction to favor the mantra. This is effort -- this is a philosophical/intellectual PROCESS (work being done) of coming to a conclusion. The conclusion is: I'll decide to favor the mantra -- not all these other tempting processes. Edg
