What Happens When Attention Wanders?

It wanders. That is not a scandal. The practice is the fetch, not the fantasy of an unwavering beam. People quit because they thought the point was a still mind. The point is a returning one.

Notice, without a court case, that you left. Come back. That sentence is the whole of Chantism at the mechanical level. Theologies add meaning. They do not replace the fetch.

Your mind wandered during japa. Congratulations: you found the reason for the next bead.

If wandering is only rage at yourself, visit Pine and Larch, then return. Self-contempt is not a tradition. It just feels like work.