A customer in the store asked Adano for a mantra.

He told her, “Jesus Christ, protect me.”

She was disappointed. “Don’t you have an Indian mantra for me to use?”

Adano replied, “Why would you trade the intimacy of your own language for a foreign word you don’t understand?”

Exiting the Bodhi Tree, Adano scoffed, “There’s no spirituality in there.”

Any word will do for a mantra as long as you repeat it often and continuously.

Adano told us back in the 1970s (at the Texas Institute of Reflex Sciences) …

“You can even use Coca-Cola for a mantra as long as you stick to it.”

One way to select a mantra is the LeShan Telephone Book Method, explained by Lawrence LeShan in his 1975 book, How to Meditate.

Randomly open a telephone book and point to a name with your eyes closed.

Pick the first syllable of the first name your finger lands on.

Randomly open to another page and point to a name with your eyes closed.

Pick the first syllable of the first name your finger lands on.

Combine the two syllables, and now you have a mantra.

If you don’t like your first choice, finger-point until one “fits.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfS9Ywb2Cc

“Digestion is never perfect. No wonder the flies have so much to feed on in faeces.”

“In the earlier stages of plant growth a part of the cellulose is in chemical combination with water, forming hydrated cellulose, a portion of which undergoes digestion and produces heat and energy in the body.”