--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > Robert wrote: > > It is a delicate process to transcend thought...that is the reason for the > > checking, etc... > > Because unless we have the experience of transcending thought, then we can > > think that repeating a mantra, or chanting a mantra, is going to get you > > there...but then you have missed the point. > > The mantra starts out like 'any other thought', but is used as a vehicle to > > transcend, so it begins the process of noticing something about the > > thinking process, the act of experiencing more subltle levels of thinking, > > and then transcending the thinking process itself. > > All of this is very subtle and delicate, which is why it has been so > > misunderstood... > > It's not like using a hammer to pound a nail...which would be more akin to > > the techniques of western thinking...politically speaking. > > R.G. > The process in other traditions is called "samadhi." "Transcending > thought" is just a "westernization" of the same thing avoiding the > Sanskrit term. TM is certainly not unique in producing samadhi. ;-)
I think it's interesting we assume that our thoughts spring from pure consciousness as proposed by MMY (bubble diagram). When you look and study deeper, it appears our thoughts don't originate from the absolute state, only God can operate from that level. That's why upon further examination apparently what really happens is the mantra merges with that thought, that indeed comes from pure consciousness and that thought is AUM, the building block of all relative creation and the Ved, and this 'thought' buoys us aloft to pure consciousness.......
