--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" <wgm4u@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > > > > > The most important secret: don't say this stuff out loud > > > > if you plan on using it in TM practice. And reading it > > > > is probably kinda silly as well... > > > > > > Lawson, > > > > > > Can you please explain to us why you believe this? > > > > I believe it because if I even see my mantra in > > print, it has a distinctly negative effect on > > subsequent meditations. When I begin to entertain > > the mantra, I see it spelled out in my mind's eye, > > and it's as if that "gross" version of it fights > > with the vastly more abstract version it's become > > over the years. Takes several sessions before the > > "gross" version fades away and my meditation goes > > back to the way it was. I would imagine the effect > > would be even stronger if I said it out loud or > > heard someone saying it. > > That sounds so minor as to be almost insignificant, when I became an > Initiator MMY gave me the mantras written on a small piece of paper and told > me to memorize them and after I was finished to eat the paper...gads. >
But none of those was "your" mantra, in the sense that you first learned it via a piece of paper handed you by your TM teacher. Different context, and all that. Seems obvious to me, why isn't it to you? Lawson
