On 5/2/2014 11:33 PM, lengli...@cox.net wrote:
Who says I maintain attention on the mantra?
>
When you sit down to meditate, you consciously begin the mantra; when
you realize that you're not thinking the mantra, you begin it again. So,
there must be /*some*/ maintenance going on, otherwise you would not
remember to think the mantra again.
Remembering to maintain attention attention on a thought is NOT
"effortlessly thinking a thought".
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Remembering to think the mantra is just like any other thought you
remember. So, remembering to think the mantra is not 100% effortless. It
takes some effort, no matter how slight, to think a specific thought.
But, I agree that the TM teaching modality of "effortlessness" is better
than */concentrating/* on a mantra or breathing.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote :
On 5/2/2014 2:01 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
I disagree that TM is mindfullness, and I disagree because of
Marshy's intent and belief.
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Mindfulness is the practice of awareness, a factor on the path to
enlightenment. Mindfulness practice is inherited from the */Buddhist
tradition/*. Buddhism makes use of mantras, so by your logic
mindfullness is not meditation? Go figure.
This sounds almost exactly like TM:
"When practicing mindfulness, for instance by watching the breath, one
must remember to maintain attention on the chosen object of awareness,
"faithfully returning back to refocus on that object whenever the mind
wanders away from it." - B. Allen Wallace
http://www.mindandlife.org/dialogues/past-conferences/ml18/
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