Notice that phrase "a second time". Implicit in that is thinking "the mantra at least once."
And you don't have to remember to think the mantra at least once. Thinking the mantra can be spontaneous, even from the very start. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 5/3/2014 4:45 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... wrote: Who says I always end up thinking the mantra a second time? Sometimes I realize that 20 minutes have gone by lost in thought, and that's the end of my meditation. > Not being a teacher of TM but just a common practitioner, I think you have to remember to begin the mantra at least once during a meditation. Otherwise you'd just be doing a gross, belly flop and making a splash all over the place. This happened to me one time - I sat down to meditate and forgot to start my mantra - then about 20 minutes later I woke up and discovered that I had been merely taking a nap. It wasn't unpleasant and I can't remember what I was doing all that time, but it got me to thinking. Go figure. This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
