--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim <emptybill@> wrote: > <snip> > > The facts remain the same. The crux of a sutra is > > its meaning because the sutra is an idea. It is > > that idea which is entertained in awareness through > > the mode of a briefly focused attention. > > FWIW, the term I heard over and over during my > TM-Sidhis instruction was that the sutra is an > *intention*, which is more than just an "idea," > I think. > > > It is entertained through recollection or smriti. > > Thus mindfulness is summarily present. > > > > Maharishi described meditative attention as "active > > but undirected", meaning alert but resting. Returning > > to the mantra occurs when recollection occurs. Thus > > mindfulness is also summarily present. > > That sounds to me as though you're using a very broad > definition of "mindfulness." In my experience, one is > not mindful of recollecting the mantra; recollection > simply occurs when a train of spontaneous thought has > played itself out. (And again in my experience, the > recollection and the return to the mantra are virtually > simultaneous, almost as if the recollection *is* the > mantra.) >
Or even more than "almost"... Lawson
