--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > > That's cool- I like that...as if the [TM] mantra's home is that very > subtlest level of discrete thought, just preceding no thought or > pure awareness. A resonant frequency of the sound of attention. Very > cool! I have no idea if you are 'right', or not, about this, but > experientially it *resonates*. > > I also like the implied compression or one pointedness of the senses > at that subtlest thought level, by engaging our attention, the > mantra focuses all of the senses to their source. > > Also makes sense both from the success some have exerienced using > this technique, and also the side effects some have had, because if > the mantra leads us effortlessly home, to the ground floor of > thought, every level of relative existence will be passed through in > time; every biological layer of experience, down every spiral of > DNA, beyond every neurological 'map' in the brain, surpassing all of > the auric fields around us, every relative state. Great! Thanks!
<blush> Glad you liked it. I have no idea if it's right either, but it resonates for me as well, and as far as I can tell it's not inconsistent with anything MMY has said about mantras (but then I haven't heard everything he's said about them). ------------------------ 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/
