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Faint Impression
Faint impression:
and the mantra shows that silence can’t be divided, every sound is simply a vibration held in its embrace, seamlessly so, with no true interruption to its hold. We think the mantra, just a faint impression really, no meaning to the words, but a frequency that carries us further into silence, drops us between the ordinary flow of thoughts to deeper layers of the mind. This all happens on its own, we’re not replacing mundane thoughts with the notion of higher inspiration, each thought belongs to the moment of its own appearance, we’re only concerned with the mantra, introducing it to the mind, remembering it, listening…
a faint impression leading us deeper into an ever present silence.
that’s meditation it’s how we use the mantra, an easy approach, natural. Mostly importantly is that little concentration is needed, no force of mind, no willpower. Every thought belongs, noticed lightly, and let go without concern. Even if we get caught within a whirlwind of thoughts that seems to be beyond control, a daydream, it doesn’t matter at all. Returning always to the mantra, gently, and easily so. That’s the vibration we give our notice, our soft attention, again being just a faint impression — and it’s with this shift form ordinary thought to a finer level of vibration that we drop within existing silence, pure, deep, always present. The mantra simply…