Or you could be witnessing thoughts the whole time...
On Friday, March 28, 2014 1:02 PM, Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 3/28/2014 10:07 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
For me, the answer to Barry's question would be a definite No. (In fact, I
think it would take a bit of effort not to go back to the mantra.)
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Barry's analysis also assumes that at some point in your meditation
you've stopped thinking the mantra and that your mind has wandered
off to other thoughts. It may be that in advanced TMers all you need
to do is think the mantra just once - one thought and then a twenty
or thirty minute transcendence.
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>For me, the whole issue of whether TM is effortless comes down to how its
>adherents would answer the question: "Does it take effort -- when you become
>aware that you have a choice about what to think about -- to decide to think
>about something else and then do it?"
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>If they answer "Yes" to that question, then TM is not effortless, because that
>is its literal instruction: "When you become aware that you are not thinking
>the mantra, come back to it."
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>If that process requires effort, then TM is not effortless.
