--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <claudiouk@> > wrote: > > > > anonyff - I've had similar experiences with both TM and mindfulness > > of breathing, as you described. With TM - a subtle straining > > because the mantra just disappears and remains unavailable for most > > of the meditation. Just letting go completely is OK but > > isn't "meditation" as before (although occasionally a faint mantra > > makes an appearance and usually this is a nice meditation). More > > often though there is a subtle searching for the mantra or subtle > > effort to re-introduce it, both of which often result in headaches. > > Tried countless checks but these never shifted the problem. > > FWIW, I had that problem too at one time, just as you > describe it. I ultimately found that what I had > thought of as "subtle" was still too concrete. The > mantra wasn't unavailable at all; it was there, but it > was just *so* faint I hadn't recognized it as such. > > Once I realized this, I was fine, and meditation > continued as it had before. > > A TM teacher told me that MMY had said there is no > limit to how faint the mantra can become. > >
My analogy is that of prepsonding to the question of meeting of someone. Recalling the mantra is like being asked "do you recall the person you met yesterday?" No matter how vague your *initial recollection*, even the answer "no, I don't" is still a response. Likewise, thinking the mantra can range over an infinitely large range of values of clarity/obscurity/etc. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
