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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker
apologies for rambling on ... (signs of aging) as far as mantras go, it may be advisable to ‘let the mantra come to us’, as a benediction, rather than picking it at random. the inner sound current, for example, which octave reverberates, resounds, renews within automatically? we don’t get to choose. it just is.
the mantra that comes in may be any ... once assigned by the ‘inner guru’, go with it, as a sadhna, an involuntary practice, a pull.
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That was a great ramble, BTW, I like the broad view in that.
You have to imagine a mantra, so realistically, it doesn't 'just come' - you have to make it happen. But the inner sound current is like focusing on the sound which is already in your head, usually a high pitched buzzing initially at least. That's a good meditation because the sound is soft and finely detailed and you can listen more and more closely to discover subtler nuances of it and be 'absorbed' by it. It conforms to principles of 'observe it as it is' rather than 'make it as you want it to be', which puts it in the non-volitional category of practice.