Mantra refinement

[Christi (Tristan Dorling)]

@qspadone

“The mantra is an idea, a faint impulse”. (Lesson ???)

Hi Qspadone and Michael,

p.s.

That quote comes from here:

Comments on "Repetition of the Mantra"

Hi All: Someone recently asked in email about returning to a “repetition of the mantra,” versus just returning to “the mantra” during deep meditation. The latter is the more common instruction. The question was, “Why not advise practitioners to return to ‘repetition’ of the mantra?” Here is the response: Yes, it is repetition of the mantra. But the kind of repetition we use in deep meditation is a faint idea, an impulse, and in its finer states is not repetition at all in the conventional sen…

This is the full quote:

Yes, it is repetition of the mantra. But the kind of repetition we use in deep meditation is a faint idea, an impulse, and in its finer states is not repetition at all in the conventional sense. It is just a very subtle vibration deep in the mind, and then … transcendence… [Yogani]

So, it is the repetition that is a faint idea, rather than the mantra.