--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
While true, isn't *every* perception's "home" the very subtlest level of thought? My feelings about this whole subject of mantras has been colored by practicing a lot of different tech- niques, few of which ever use mantras. In many of them, *anything* can be used as a focus or "starter" for the meditation, and in my experience, "anything" works just as well as any mantra. I still have the feeling that the mechanism that allows transcendence is *not* the mantra but the process of paying attention. What you pay attention to is irrelevant, because *everything* IS the transcendent. Mantras may make the process of learning that trans- cendence is possible easier at the beginning, but once the process has been established, the mantra is IMO no more effective than meditating on a donut. ------------------------ 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/
