Japa Concentration Exercises

• You have to chant and hear each mantra. Right here and now.
• Focus on this bead you are now holding between your fingers, this mantra that is now being uttered from your lips and now entering into the ear.
• And then move onto the next mantra, which you must focus on in the same way… and the next… and the next.
• This may work for 10 or 15 mantras, maybe even 30, and the mind will become diverted again. Then you have to pull the mind back and set to it again.
• Continue to do this and you will succeed.
• At the end of each round, take stock of how well you did, and resolve to make the next round even better: "This time I am going to concentrate fully on each and every mantra of this round – all 108."
• The attitude is, “Right now, this is the only round that counts.”
• And so it goes on for each and every mantra of each and every round… You will see steady improvement… And if you practice this each and every day, your rounds in general will steadily improve.