--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > > For the record, my experience is that the realization > > > that I was off on a thought is enough to evoke the mantra; > > > there's no intervening intention to think it. > > > > My own belief is that this is ALWAYS the case, but we may not be > > aware of it, at least at first, due to our inexperience with > > subtler states of the thinking process. > > That's *exactly* what I think.
To elaborate a bit: I don't think one ever "receives" a mantra (at least a bija mantra of the kind TM uses). I think the bija mantras are something like resonant frequencies of the "sound" of paying attention (or the "process of observation"), which are always present on subtle levels of the mind; and that one's attention is called to one of these frequencies on the gross level of speech by the teacher when one is initiated. To put one's attention on the mantra is thus, in effect, to pay attention *to the paying of attention*. Or to put it another way, one is observing the process of observation itself; the process of observation becomes the object of observation. ------------------------ 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/
