On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:36 PM, cardemaister wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 22, 2012, at 5:44 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > How can it take effort to become spontaneously aware of something? > > > > > > Because it takes smriti or "remembering"-awareness or you "forget" to > > return to the mantra. Those without smriti in their practice languish in > > discursive thoughts - and fail at TM, while those with smriti succeed > > because they transcend more per unit of time. YS comments say that this > > smriti is dhyana. > > > > Whoa! That's interesting. I've thought smRti is one of the five > citta-vRtti_s that "should" be niruddha[1]:
It’s also said that smrti is ekāgratā or the dawning of one-pointedness.
