[FairfieldLife] RE: Cause of benefits

[emptybill]

I traced back one or two TM mantras in the same way that a past-life trace is 
performed. It went a long way back to some guy in a forest (who was not sitting 
around in padmâsana looking like Shiva). However, the mantra emerged in 
radiant, exalted perception - sort of a cross between an shining revelation 
uttered forth and the feeling "this is how it truly is and always has been" 
type of cognizance. 
 

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Cause of benefits

[emptybill]

"Pure" Awareness? ...
 

 So what is "Impure" Awareness? Awareness with a "content"? If so then such a 
definition would include the use of a mantra also.
  

 Awareness (pure or impure) is neither an experience nor an experiencer. 
Awareness precedes the separation between these two.   

 

 The mantra is vibrational speech (vac) that captures attention as a 
non-conceptual sensory experience. But more particularly, a mantra is uttered 
forth as speech and then entertained reflectively until it recedes into subtly. 
This utterance quality differentiates it from mere sound because it actualizes 
the cognizant agency (rather than sheer awareness) of the person. TM is thus 
demarcated from something like shamata-vipashyana (samata-vipassana).  

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 A question occurred to me recently that I had never considered in all my years 
of being a student and teacher of TM: How can we tell whether TM's benefits 
result from an experience of pure consciousness or from some vibrational 
quality of the mantra?
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Cause of benefits

[Richard J. Williams]

On 1/10/2014 5:10 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
 > Yes.
 >
It looks like someone didn't get the memo. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Cause of benefits

[emptybill]

Yes.