Shashank Dixit:
tarin greco:
Shashank Dixit:
It would be great if all the AF people who are reading this can chime in and give answers. This will help clear a lot of things.
what, in the context of your practice of the actualism method, will an actually free person answering the questions you have posed here 'help clear'?
tarin
The basic reason for asking these questions is to get clues/hints so as to incline my practise in a certain way that can lead to AF. I think it may help others also.
Ok here is why I specifically asked these questions :-
>> 1. Do you *only* see and hear things at the sense organ now ?
I ask this because the normal viewing and hearing (when not in a PCE) is very different than seeing/hearing while in a PCE. So I was wondering if seeing/hearing as an AF is always at the sense organ.
for me, seeing occurs at the eye only, and hearing at the ear only.
now, how does my having answered that i see at the eye only (as it is the eye that actually sees) and hear at the ear only (as it is the ear that actually hears) give you clues/hints so as to incline your practice in a certain way that can lead to an actual freedom?
Shashank Dixit:
>> 2. Are you inclined to listen to music ? If yes , what is it that you like about it. I do know Richard's take on music and art but I was wondering if its the same with other AF people too.
Many a times when I hear music , I do enjoy it and I'm unable to see how it is affectively effecting me , yet when I hear
Richard's take on music , I think I'm missing something.
no, i am not inclined to listen to music, though i can enjoy it when i hear it.
more to the point, however: as you are unable to see how something is (affectively) affecting you (in an undesirable way), and you have no evidence that it is even affecting you at all, then your concern with richard's take, or my take, on music 'sounds like' worry.
how does fixating on what richard's, or my, take on music is do anything to address the cause of that worry (which is what practising the actualism method would address)?
Shashank Dixit:
>> 3. What are your normal day to day thoughts apart from those that require duty to be performed ? Do you think about anything from the past - good or bad events ?
my normal day to day thoughts are directly related to things in my immediate environment, which occasionally trigger memories of the past (often reminders to do this or that).
Shashank Dixit:
I cannot imagine living without thoughts from the past. Does no thought from the past ever arise randomly ?
rarely. but how does whether or not you can or cannot imagine living without thoughts from the past have anything to do with your practice of the actualism method?
Shashank Dixit:
>> 4. For fellowship regard , would you be inclined to give away money for charity or would you investigate facts about the recipients validity ?
This is because of an event that happened yesterday and made me really confused. I was coming out of a shop when all of a sudden a lady entered the shop and started asking me money for charity. I refused and rushed out of the shop but when I came out, I started wondering if I should have given money (knowing that I should have fellowship regard) but what if it wasn't a genuine charity ?
as what you appear to be addressing here is the matter of how to respond 'correctly' to charity solicitations, then it seems it would be far more fruitful to your practice of the actualism method were you to examine the feelings you felt in the situation (thereby taking responsibility for your conflict and uncertainty) than to question what an actually free person would do in a similar situation (thereby shifting attention away from your conflict and uncertainty).
in any case, i am not generally inclined to give money to people soliciting donations for charity, though i have occasionally done so as i have seen appropriate (determined on a case-by-case basis).
Shashank Dixit:
>> 5. Do you think it is sensible to have a partner around you when you grow old( or any other time) because a medical emergency can strike ?
Well this is a real concern and I wonder if anyone of you had this and how you overcame it. I can live without love or a partner but I am finding it silly not to have someone around in case of an emergency strikes , especially more so when old.
the matter has never been a concern for me. if a life-threatening medical emergency strikes and there is no one around to help me, i will die.
...but what does this have to do with your practice of the actualism method?
tarin