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RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/18/14 9:42 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
18Sep14  Metta Practice:  The Mind

Love is the expression of the willingness to be complementary with another's goals or demands - no resistance.  This is the territory I am exploring with this Metta practice:  all unwillingness comes from my egoic mind, reinforced by incidents of interactions from the past.   Love is when I make a decision that the being is more important than any cherished, fixated goal I might have to oppose him with.


Today I focused on personal de-stressing and ran on myself the command "Create an Importance" ... and put it above you ....
below you .... , etc. 6-directions.    I felt fuzzy in the head and nothing came up at first and then I focused in on an erosion control project in the back yard -- it seemed to have the most current importance.   Finally, I decided to get up and actually do something about it and I abandoned my sitting practices for the rest of the day -- it was a beautiful day outside and my thoughts were there but not impinging to any great degree.  Was able to be complementary with others.

There is still the preference for slaking the sensation thirst over sitting.

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/18/14 10:23 PM as a reply to katy steger.
katy steger:
No more non-life inclinations towards myself or others.  


Hi, Colleen,

Good to read you. I think I get what you're writing here and in its context (up thread). I also wanted to say, to me, it's natural to have "non-life inclinations". It is very natural to want stress and source of stress to end and it is very natural to realize being alive requires constant re-fueling of actual food and water, constant re-fueling of one's safety or efforts towards being in safety, constant re-fueling of social dignity, then re-fueling of sensual gratifications (Mmm... peanut M&Ms). To be alive entails exhausting maintenance and being alive often results in being non-alive with unpredictable timing. So a mental perseveration on non-living is also a natural question of "How do I end these stresses inherent in being living?"

One can answer that impatiently via violent/harmful actions and patiently with something like artistic/curious/helpful action. The last scene of the movie "District 9" comes to mind: human-alien making a metal flower : )

So I guess I just felt a caution when I read that sentence (excerpted): it is likely, to me, that the volition of "no more non-life inclinations..." can go beyond a proper healing work into a resistance/aversion/avoidance to seeing things as they are: That living beings can also feel the exhaustion of being alive and the foreseeable, constant hustle of being alive and naturally living beings can become overwhelmed at the prospect of propelling oneself forward, especially if one's future looks stressful (harmed, unsafe, undignified, in pain..). To see this exhaustion, it's a good thing to see, a real, permanent source of compassion for all living beings at work to be alive whilst there's no promise of life (of safe, pleasant living).

What you are writing about, to me, is the heart of the two truths: "Wisdom" and "compassion". Wisdom sees the conditions of life and compassion is what allows one to transform information (even information that we don't like, such as urges to be non-living or causes of non-living) into wisdom by just sitting with that experience with kindness for self and other living beings feeling the same roller coaster of being alive and being on the edge of discomfort, indignity and certain death despite all efforts.

So a gentle artistic/curious/non-intrusive intention can develop in this, and certainly kindness and compassion.

Maybe I've really gone tangential to some of your thoughts in this thread : ) Anyway, thanks for sharing your practice.

Hello Katy, kind regards and thank you for taking the time and effort to "grok" me and my practice.  I think when you say "natural" you mean "the human experience" here on planet Earth ??   Yes, I am having a human experience too and have some "to survive" goals, however the compulsive edginess gets reduced through my practices.  

As I see it, we start out wanting to play a voluntary, largely complementary game -- everyone having fun, end of game, leave the playing field and decide on the next game.   From looking at my own long history as a being, me and my mates became more and more constrained and serious and reactive and vengeful and our goals turned negative, i.e., instead of "To Enhance" each other we began to seek to degrade and be degraded, no longer able to play the "To Enhance" game in the way we once played it -- unless we knew and practiced some sort of Dharma practice and thereby reversed the trend.

When I have completed my activities towards vanishing the mind -- and I mean the compulsive/neurotic/insane portion -- there remains wisdom, compassion, eternal bliss and oneness.  

Regarding the thirst for sensation ....  well, I will simply have more interesting things to do than drive across town for the world's best tiramisu, lol.  Yes, I agree with you about not denying the human organism its natural needs and wants.  It however could care less about tiramisu when there are cookies in the pantry   :-))

Eventually, "being human" will be seen as being an option out of many other options of how to live life interacting with others.


You wrote much more that I did not acknowledge here and it will take me a few days to fully "grok" your post, and I have to admit I was a bit confused and that may be because it is late.

love,
colleen

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/19/14 8:02 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
Hey, girl,
You wrote much more that I did not acknowledge here and it will take me a few days to fully "grok" your post, and I have to admit I was a bit confused and that may be because it is late.

Nah, it's probably out there : ) Personally, I would (and do) just focus on things that readily make sense to me. Life's short, they say. If my post makes no sense, I'd just toss it in the mental compost pile of "just a fellow practitioner saying howdy and being supportive" And I hope you keep working with what does "click" for you.  Bye for now emoticon

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/19/14 10:41 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
19Sep14  Metta Practice:  The Mind

I have this idea that once a sitting is finished -- it is finished -- it should not linger during the day.   How do I accomplish this?  What part of my Rules of Practice am I weak on?   Aha, the technique I use to replenish any lost significances -- doing that thoroughly at end of the Core Metta Practice should seal the session until I start the next sitting.   I shall put this to a more thorough test.  

My partner and I are always moaning belatedly that we are feeling the effects of opening the Pandora's box of the mind by not doing enough of what we call "Repair of Importances" before we go off for the day's adventures.   The mind abhors a recently created vacuum and will automatically fill it in with more, better, or worse "mind-stuff"/chatter -- until the mind is completely resolved/vanished -- everything brought into the realm of consciousness and voluntary creation.

"Create an Importance"  (6-directions)

Nature (or biosphere) is an intelligently (relatively speaking) hierarchy of organisms programmed to operate within the set limitations. I saw how carnivores eat rotted meat and concluded that carnivores rely on the microbes to assist the digestion of their meal.  I also recall a story of a sick meat-eating human who was advised by a shaman to go and eat rotten meat -- which he did and recovered from his dis-ease.   Ergo, microbes commonly associated with the foods I eat are complementary to this human organism.

Note to self:  I've just realized my mind is in one of two conditions when entering my sit.   Yesterday, for example, it was dull, hidden from view, and I had to persist repetitively through the exercise before anything came up as an importance.  
Today my mind is in an opposite condition -- compulsively creating, as if on a caffeine high and I could not lock in on any one significance/importance, and that would mean my session would take a long, long time.

I handled the compulsive create by first imaging myself without a care in the world and putting that all around me.   As I began to settle into that, one persistent importance kept intruding.  Aha! caught you!  I grabbed it, reeled it in and began putting it all around me over and over again until no more change.  As things got quieter and more focused I even saw where I had left it.

Have Another Create an Importance (6-directions)
Done without much stuff coming up

Core Practice:  The Mind
Getting too late -- will get up earlier to complete.

 

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/21/14 11:38 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
21Sep14 Metta Practice:  The Mind:

I've heard if one does something long enough it becomes routine -- if done wisely and intelligently I suppose.  There is also a point where I feel I've come to a "make or break" point and must persist through resistance.   For example, I felt that this morning and so the first thing I asked myself was, "How does your mind seem to you now?"   That got me up and prepared for a sit.

Another thing I'm noticing is that I'm getting more analytical, more detached from the subject of my interest -- the mind and the human body.  The sessions my clearing partner is giving me re "To eat" and "To taste" compulsions take me eventually to realizations and awarenesses far beyond merely eating and tasting.  

Last night by the end of the session I realized that if I had not been so compulsive as a being, bringing this compulsive and sensation thirsty mind with me into that infant body I would have had far less considerations of having been traumatized or overwhelmed or forced or prevented, et al.  Thus, I brought it mostly upon myself -- I was NOT an innocent infant victim, ha!  What a joke!  I was however a provocateur within my own limited framework and heavily working both sides of the game -- seeking to overwhelm and gaining egoic mileage from being overwhelmed.  What we call "overts and motivators", what I call "taking turns" in this game of life.

Most beings are here to experience the thrills of forbidden sex, delusional drugs, and excruciating, agonizing violence, in one way or another -- even if only vicariously --  and/or as the giver of those.  And any creative cocktail of the above.  

A careening downward spiral of fun and games, aided by the ability to forget, and thus each lifetime seems sensationally new.

Fortunate and blessed the parent who realizes that tiny helpless infant is much more cognizant than it appears -- if one were able to address it as a being...

My grand-daughter, before she was born, I found her dramatizing psychosis in her realm of existence, however she was willing to pop out of it and with a little two-way communication she did.   She is now back to being a human compulsive games player and ready to run after all the sensations life on earth has to offer... to once more risk insanity or decide to put the breaks on it and get wise about upgrading her current condition of existence.   Been there, done that, yawn.    Why, even my dog will be a human and proceed down the same path next lifetime.  It's all just "me" having an experience, sigh...we must be able to have compassion and detachment regarding our brothers and sisters in this game of life.

Create an Importance 6-directions:
  "knowing"  - gives me altitude and understanding of all games in this universe
- no surprises, deadpan
- the knowing is extroverted -- knowing things and others, not necessarily introspective
- I am "The Eye in the Sky"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8  
- Knowing is sufficient unto itself and I do not need to have others know what I know, because "I Know", therefore, "I AM".
- for some reason it is important that others know -- and/or others know that I know
- it is important / it is not important

Time up, have to get to work.  Get up earlier Monday.

Note: today my partner reached for and ate an apple (he never does this) and this is exactly what I created him doing the day before.

"Timebreak" the Day's Events:
Yawns,  scenes flitting by, a bit of stuck attention -- resolved
How does today seem to you now?   I got what I desired and what I didn't get I could easily let go of.



 

 

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/22/14 10:26 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
22Sep14  Metta Practice:  The Mind

The reason I do before and after the core practice, "Create an Importance" is that the egoic mind does not like to lose anything, and during a sit some or much of the mind can be vanished as one does the activities towards quieting the mind, towards its ultimate vanishment (which some may say is not possible, but I say is).   So I do what I call "Repair of Importances" (RI for short).  The mind wants to give me something "important" to chew on -- well, I can do the same thing consciously.  I do this practice until no more change.   I find it helps me cognite at higher levels of awareness when doing my Core Practice.  I find when I end the sit with the RI drill, I don't get dragged down into some importance the mind conjured up and think it is mine.  

I find not doing enough RI kills my practice.   I'd rather spend the whole time doing an RI drill than not doing it at all.  The mind is like a teenager who, upon seeing a large blank wall, wants to cover it with graffiti.   Consciously paint that wall yourself until satisfied.  This is very Zen.


"Have Another Create an Importance"
  • We give ourselves limitations on a via -- through accepting the limiting beliefs of others
  • What is my desire for someone else and have them create that -- my partner doing his clearing work and having fun with it
  • --  he puts his own importance all around him and then I put that all around me (thoughts, emotions and body somatics I'm feeling when I put it all around me -- it's like having an itch that can't be scratched -- characteristic of permeation)
  • --  putting it all around me is like a merging, a permeation and it is accompanied by some emotion and body somatics - indescribable
  • --  a sense of being him too -- not at first -- with repetition
  • yawns (a thought I shouldn't be spending so much time on this exercise -- should be getting to the core practice -- mind talk)
  • laughter, yawns as the sense of delusion arises, and dispelling of delusion --  I'm just making this all up, lol!  He's not really there in the way I thought at first
  • Peals of laughter as the delusion is dispelled
  • The importance of all this is changed too and anyway can't stop laughing right now
  • The laughter of rejection of a delusion
  • The joke is on me for fixating on an importance
  • I'm having a hard time pretending it's real, but I'm still doing the drill
  • Certainly feel less individuated, less separate from the "person"   ROFL
  • I'm glad no one is around to hear me laughing so
  • Note to Self:  Pull out the winter clothes for that darling other "me"  (rofl)
  • "Dear Darling Other Me"   How do I love thee, let me count the ways; oh, my not-me, yet the precious expression of my desire to know myself in all forms (rofl)  You were created to not let me forget the true meaning of the Tao symbol -- to be that full expression.   This gives me an immense love and respect for me, to know that I shewed myself the way by this means, through the importance of having a "you" that wanted wisdom and truth above all else  (tears. gratitude, a little death of ego that craves opponents  -- the eons of self-degradation tearfully falling away).  
  • Thankful for all the other "not-selfs" who had compassion and wanted to see their "not-selfs" have the opportunity to free themselves from their self-made traps
  • Calm, reflective, continue the drill...is it finished?
  • He has topped up his need for importances/significances (or the mind's need)
  • I am not experiencing anymore change at this time.
End of exercise.

-take a break-

Create an Importance 6-directions:
A greenhouse
mind chatter, yawns
chatter gone, being called outside

Core Practice:  The Mind 6-directions
heaviness of mind, psychic mass
distracted, dull
etc., etc.
How does your mind seem to you now?   Better, but I could continue and feel even more resolved about my mind, but it is late and time for bed.

End of sit.

Note:  Tonite my clearing partner helped me look at compulsions regarding "forcing to taste" and I used repeater tech on "He must taste/he must not taste"    I got a good look at all the games strategies employed in the food industry.  I saw my compulsion to make people eat healthy food.  I saw how taste is a primary determinant in what people choose to eat, and how people don't have the idea they can re-train their palate.   I got a good scan of myself as a cook.  

I thought of the first "Matrix" movie where those who took the truth pill got to eat bad-tasting gruel and those who got to live in the Matrix got to eat filet mignon, etc.  I thought of the movie where the people in heaven got to eat as much as they wanted without any ill consequences and it all tasted wonderful.

I saw how entrenched this system of eating has become, from its first introduction, to becoming increasingly more complicated and degrading for human bodies.

The spiritual being wants what he wants when he wants it (i.e., sensation) and is less concerned about the body.

I see the intelligent design (relatively speaking) of this biosphere and feel a great need to be complementary with it.  I thought of the Brazilian native Indians who created their food forests in the Amazon.

I also got the viewpoint of all sickness starting from the mind -- heal the mind, heal the body.

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/23/14 9:11 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
23Sep14  Metta Practice:  The Mind:

"I'm onto you now"  (line from movie, "Revolver")
Scene from "Revolver"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDWGEkfHX-E

"I
 was always going to take you with me.  You were just not ready to hear how hard that was going to be."

Such is the nature of games and goal-sets in this universe that even the most degraded and destructive being in the universe began life with a positive life goal.  It can easily be tracked back to a positive life goal if on scans their timeline.

From last nights "To Taste" session, this a,m. looking at that subject again, I scanned my own timeline with respect to my tasting goals and and all the places where that took me (even to France) and after scanning all that I realized there are more interesting things to do in life and I felt myself lifting away from that mindset.  I don't need to do that anymore,  I feel what is coming to my attention now as a sensation thirst is "to smell".   I can smell right now that Black Angus Burger.

Intellectual understanding vs subjective insight are like night and day when it comes to actually changing behavior because I could intellectually understand that I had some compulsions, but not until I got the subjective insight could I see myself effortlessly pulling away from that compulsion.  

Create an Importance 6-directions:

White sugar  ( "must not" is also an importance -- it is all created importance)
  • the body has a primary mode and a backup secondary mode
  • when the mind is operating compulsively on non-life goals it causes the body to crave non-life acid-forming foods (junk foods)
  • acid = heat
  • human body is designed to be high electrical, high magnetics
  • the brain is like a capacitor -- it takes the excess electrics and dissipates it
  • craving for sugar keeps the being set into a body -- cannot exteriorize easily
  • erratica
  • it can be considered a way to hasten the dissolution of the body and thus free the being from his body
  • -- a sweet way to go  :-))
No more change.

"Have another create an Importance"  6-directions
Marge creating a fruit salad and eating it
this runs quickly to no more change

back to work

"Direct Looking" at day's events:
other similar events pop up from other days
yawns, feel good doing this and want to be a pro at direct looking
also called "timebreaking"
looking at times when I was aware of my thoughts and associated emotions/feelings
I try to start with the beginning of the day and run sequentially,, but my mind seems to stack events differently
there is a zen feeling doing this because I am doing consciously and deliberately what my mind does unbidden, i.e., bringing up incidents from the past
Laughing because not until now did I grok the "Headlessness" people, but I just realized that in recalling the past I can't see my head, lol.  I can see the shoes and the bottom half of my jeans and the ends of my arms, and the hands ....   :-))
I'm not looking from an exterior viewpoint -- yet
 
How does today seem to you now?   I can see mostly everything and nothing important seems to have been missed and no more yawns or thoughts/emotions -- it seems okay.

"Create acceptance and put it all around you"
Done -- not much change occurred, feels alright

"Have someone else create acceptance and put it all around you"
Done -- getting tired and will check this tomorrow

End of sit










"How does white sugar seem to you now?"   Simply an inert pile of white crystals.  White sugar is white sugar, no dire associations, etc.

 


RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/25/14 7:12 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
25Sep14  Metta Practice:  The Mind

Create an Importance of Being Known - 6 directions (continued):
  • the importance of being detached from the mind and connected up to a higher mind and then being known from that viewpoint
  • --  one reason why I reflect and meditate -- so that my compulsive-reactive mind is not being known, therefore, myself as that entity.
  • persona is not me
  • I envision this beautiful life of being a psychotherapist to those who feel they need that and otherwise spending my days reflecting and meditating, and going into the "Oneness of it All"
  • in meditation one gets wiser about whatever they put their attention on
  • yawns
  • sometimes going off topic works and sometimes it does not work
  • one does not have to interact with everybody or all the time (see myself as a child writing this on a blackboard a hundred times)
  • how can I be known by everybody all at once and forever?
  • why, be a sun of course
  • it is reflexive because everybody is every-me and it's kind of a funny game I played with/on myself
  • yawns, laughing off the delusion of separateness
  • the mind can come up with all sorts of covert game strategies for being known (lies, hiddenly pushing buttons, etc.)
  • it can be so important one rushes headlong into an interaction before considering and reflecting
  • any interaction perceived to be negative is felt as a rejection and excites and is used as a justifier to fulfill an urge to get the sensation of/from inflicting and overwhelming
  • if one wishes themselves or their effects to be known by someone in particular, they must be willing to know and be complementary to what they know about that person.   This is why businesses conduct surveys for their products and spend so much research on human behavior...so their name or product will be a household word.
  • if you chase the mind it runs away from you and if you run away from the mind it follows you around

no more change - end of sit








 

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/25/14 11:23 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
25Sep14  Metta Practice : The Mind

I often bother myself wishing others would take time out to sit and meditate and reflect.  This is more effective than wishing.
Tonite I came very close to slipping into my old valence of watching a movie and for some reason I had not enough interest to sustain it and turned instead to scanning out the day's events (yawns) and doing my exercises.    This is a change-up for me because I've always loved watching movies.

Truly Trumanville -- there is no meditation group in my little town.


Have Another Create an Importance of Meditation - 6 directions:
  • grateful, yawns
  • the whole world is falling away -- all the mind's occupation with things leaving
  • it feels so good -- release of happy tears
  • looks like the game of creating a society of complementary beings is not going well for me -- feel sad about the apparent paucity of people who would rather watch a movie than meditate -- go within
  • people so afraid to go and look at what's in there
  • only a few brave ones seek help to find out what's wrong with their minds
  • the rest think they are their mind
  • and I'm still climbing up that slippery slope
  • Every negative experience is an opportunity to make the decision to get off the hamster wheel.
  • what delight it gives me to see him meditating

no more change, end of sit.

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
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9/26/14 12:56 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
26Sep14  Metta Practice : The Mind

A.M. Musings:
I have been lurking on some other practice logs and I keep hearing about the "Dark Night".   I will have to investigate this further.   I honestly believe this journey can be very even keel, but I will test it out for myself firstly.   The key practice to keep my mind from overwhelming me before, during or after my Core Exercise is what I call "Repair of Importances".    My reactive mind is all about what's important in an egoic sense and to the degree my practices take that away is to the degree I consciously replace it, especially at the ending of a sit.   I'm happy, my mind is happy.   Since I have been doing this religiously I also noticed I have less resistance to going into a sit in the a.m. and scanning the day's events at the end of the day.  I sleep better, with better dreams.

Another puzzlement I need to resolve is I never read anyone addressing incidents or events from the past.   I call this "Direct Looking".   I'm surprised that their minds do not present these past scenes to them since my understanding of the mind is that every trauma or upset is associated with a scene as part of the package.  (Are they studiously avoiding this aspect of the mind?)

For example, an event that I deemed "very important" and that shaped my persona this lifetime is very complicated and my mind will only allow me to see bits of it at a time (it surely was something I wanted to forget) and everytime I agree to see what I abhor it diminishes in importance and that bit of my persona drops away.  I follow up with the "Repair of Importances" exercise to seal off the incident until next sit.

Buddha's big breakthrough was doing direct looking at his past existences.   Ramana Maharshi wrote of doing something similar, and Lester Levenson put himself into the Causal by reviewing all his past interactions - a type of Metta.  However, no other practice I have studied mentions Direct Looking.   If it were not for the materials I studied from Scientology I would not have done this myself.   Also, my first enquiry into the mind came after viewing a past life existence while walking through an old district in Lyons, France.

Perhaps it is because I welcome these scenes as an opportunity to consciously bring the past into the present and then studiedly put it back into the past again until I can do this with ease.   I have even found that from bringing up a past scene I can walk through the whole earth as if that past event contained the whole universe -- and why not?

I don't think I could reach Nirvana this lifetime if I were not so aggressive towards my mind and its contents.

Another -- to me -- key understanding of the reactive mind is that it was given a mandate, which I conveniently call the "To Know Matrix" and it has ever since been operating in an ever more limiting scenario ever since The One decided to divide itself for a better experience.  We were given this mind mandate and feel we cannot ever know ourselves again as The One -- can never again get into that viewpoint.   However, some genius figured out there is a way to remove and resolve the "sting" of this moment, an incident of great bliss and agony, and once again operate as unlimited beings, totally complementary to our past, present and future.  

I have been able to track the content of every past incident back to this first incident of separating out.  All my actions since that #1 incident were a dramatization of what I held to be important -- either negatively or positively -- during that separation incident.  I have never been "my own man", a voluntary games player, and since then I have never been able to return to a native state of simply aware.   That is a long time from one perspective, however from another perspective it is only a blip on the screen.

So now there is "balm from Gilead" and I am working out the best gradient approach, but I always have my eye on the snow-capped mountain -- eternal bliss and oneness.

But that requires two things of me:   I can directly look at any incident in the past that comes up in a sit, no matter how cruel, and it no longer holds any stuck importance for me; and that I address this "To Know" matrix along the same route I came in deeper and deeper until this present time.   I must act it out in my sits once again, around and around until it no longer holds any importance for me and I am able to assume all viewpoints in and out of this universe.

Even though I have not completed this activity -- which is turning out to be a lot of fun -- I am getting previews of those higher viewpoints, more expanded viewpoints.   The "zoom" function is unsticking in all directions.

 Create an Importance of Being Known (continued) 6-directions:
  • it seems to be the main drama of this persona
  • in order to make it be known one has to also be willing to not be known (???)
  • they should think it is their own idea -- that is what Masters do - by "not doing"
  • feel the passion
  • what is more important -- that the effect be known or that I be known ?
  • a sense that everything is perfect - no need for striving
  • it happens without mind's contribution of effort to solve a problem
  • it happens without game strategies, hidden agendas
  • don't allow your neediness to overtake you 
  • seems it is preferable to be "well known" and "well accepted effects" for example I just posted a question on an FB group knowing that it was a bit risky that they might not like me going in that direction of questioning and forcing them to know something that does not fit within their paradigm, so I still need to let them know that I am still very complementary with the goals of this group (which I think I did, but no response yet)
  • the importance of "bridging" when creating effects otherwise risk throwing the other party into a must-not-know or must-not-be-known and the other party throwing back at you even harder what they consider must-be-known and what they must-know, etc., etc. -- oh it gets very complicated, it can.
  • It appears The One wanted to see all possible combinations of this To Know Matrix played out and this is an infinite universe as a result.  It will never end because the black hold spews it all back out and we start all over again under the same basic algebraic mandates as before.  It would take everyone in this universe getting wise to it before this universe would no longer be a fun or relevant experience.
  • I used to say to myself, "God must be a mathematician !"  because I did see an analytical, intelligent design, but I was never able to take it back to the basic algebraic postulate set.... too encumbered by my compulsions for sensation and experience and the "must not go there" signposts (i.e., 3 small children, a large house, a full-time job, and issues from the past hanging fire).
  • a love and affinity for the people in this forum sincerely and devotedly doing their practices and compassion for the difficulties they experience with themselves and their interactions.
  • compassion for myself -- affinity with myself as long as I make getting wise more important than anything else. 
  • feel blessed
  • the importance of all of us knowing ourselves as one or as from the one -- true brothers and sisters no longer considering ourselves to be afflicted by any experience from the past.  No longer stuck in past pleasure or pain.
  • We all came from the same egg  :-))
  • a strong desire to help my br-others, as I see others have had the same desire for me and how my progress gives them joy
  • I recall Lester Levenson saying he wanted to see his "other selves" going free.
  • I now have no masters -- I am gaining my own mastery -- yet I'm learning always from interacting with others
  • one has a choice to create good or bad effects to be known that will keep self and others in the game of this universe; or one can create effects to be known that will result in others proceeding in due haste to vanish their minds and no longer have to enquire through mental stratum, "What Am I?"
  • [For the creation is eagerly awaiting the revelation of God's children (Romans 8:19)]

  • I still hold the importance of this being known yet I bide my time, hold myself still and do my practices, only speaking or writing what comes from my sitting exercises....Almost to no one but myself and my clearing partner who is happy to see me working out my own "salvation", no longer dependent upon his expertise to resolve my issues.
  • Because of my current importances re "To Be Known", it helps me to be able to pretend that others might be being well affected by knowing me and my writings, and this forum is a prop for that need until I no longer need it.
  • Reading threads on this forum is also a prop for my need "to know" along the lines of my strong interests.
  • Do well for yourselves everyone and give me reason to be happy all over.
  • We can all play be-do-have games and consciously set out own limits.  We will never again - through pain or pleasure - get stuck in an existence.

Okay, no more change, except for a lot of ecstatic gushing, and I need to get to work.

End of Sit.

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/1/14 2:04 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
30Sep14  Metta Practice : The Mind

Re-evaluation of Practice:
While this website was down my practice also faltered due to a severe upset I gave myself, which looking back on it I am embarrassed to even talk about it because I really let my thoughts run away with me on that one.   However, a small victory which I attribute to being more practiced with my technique for de-stressing.
So, I created an importance of aesthetics (which I felt was what the upset was about in general and which I know is part of my Dukkha i.e., 'case') and kept putting it all around me until I could expand out my viewpoint, look at my sacred cows and make the decision that being complementary with the being is more joy for me than thirsting for aesthetic sensations (and then getting disappointed and allowing myself to experience pain).

Following on the heels of that upset was my biggie boogieman which is well scripted out in excruciating detail in my mind and I always succumb to it, thinking it is a real scenario (probably something from the past that I'm projecting into a future -- of my own creation nonetheless, ha!).   As usual, this one had me almost unconscious but this time - a small win for me - I managed to handle it fairly quickly so as not to prolong the agony.  My partner, being intuitive, also felt these energies alongside me and we each had to go to our corners and work it through.  He has his own dukkha and his own practices that get him through.

What brought me out of the mental mock-up of total loss of everything was to run on myself, "I must know [my partner]/I must not know [my partner].   Since the 4 years we have been striving together to null our fixed and opposing outlooks on life we have made great progress and now the fears are only of the mind and no longer a plausible reality due to behavior changes brought about by our devotion to our individual practices.   However, the dragon, even though perhaps dead, still swings its tail -- now about every two weeks at most.

While I kept repeating to myself, "I must not know [my partner]" many images, thoughts, emotions, other phenomenon kept coming up and finally I did see how silly it is for me to "must know" anyone, especially now that I am more confident in my solo practices and what they can do for me.  Losses from the past got looked at again and then put back into the past where they belong.   I ended this side of the repeat practice once I expanded my viewpoint outside of my body and was above the property looking down on everything and felt very free of my mind. Then, to keep the balance, I ran on myself "I must know [my partner] which brought up positive images -- stuck in past pleasure moments, trying to re-create the past -- and those also faded away in importance.

Since Daniel works in ER I guess he would understand this as an emergency handling so that one can get back into their normal stream of life once again.   It worked quite well and now back to the REALLY IMPORTANT issues -- how is my practice going?

I have been re-evaluating the emphasis of my practice and have decided to shift emphasis over to doing more Direct Looking -- what I also call time-breaking -- and my Lester Levenson inspired Metta Practice has been a first stage success -- sort of a Life Repair.   But Lester's bridge to Nirvana has been incorporated and upgraded into Dennis' 5 levels of progress towards vanishing the mind, i.e., "nirvana".  I see this as a Tao-Buddhist approach -- that is how I see myself.

Self-to-self:  continue developing proficiency and quickness of the complementary and necessary "Repair of Importances" exercises and then move immediately into the activity of exercising myself to consciously bring incidents from the past into the present, comparing differences and similarities until no more change, and then putting them back into the past again, being very watchful to keep the mind topped up with importances so that it does not fill in the vacuum with its own stuff (I love that word).  Dennis says this is the exercise that separates the men from the boys and I can already see why he said that.   It has already felt like a baptism by fire when I first tried it out and I quickly retreated to only time-breaking the day's events.

This Level will be complete when I can no longer find an incident in my past with any energy or fixed attention.

The key to success is gradient approach and I am still going to allow myself to be weak-kneed and only scan out the day's events.   And let's see what develops after that; afterall, this is a native ability of any being -- one which I have spent eons perfecting the art of forgetting (not-knowing).   Art, in that I loved creating thick velvety blacknesses to hide everything from view, and bright hard black obsidian shields, and clear crystalline spheres all around me -- it's funny how these things stuck with me and I was no longer conscious of them.  Just a normal operating procedure placed on automatic mode -- don't you just love being able to put things on automatic?   But what if you decide you want to play a different game or expand your horizons -- well, these creations just might not be what is wanted now.  They certainly would not contribute to the activity of vanishing the mind.  I'm going to leave  them alone for now -- it will all come undone in its due time.

One thing I liked about Nisargadatta was that he believed what his Master said and never for once doubted his Master, and he attributed that trust to his success with his practices.   In that vein I've decided to drop all doubts about Dennis' advised practices and do them until the end.   My only R&D into clearing techniques is in seeing how best I can help others resolve their own stated mental issues.

A Funny Story taken from a past existence - for entertainment only :   Long ago, on a distant planet, in a large city, a group of us were being taught how to lift our bodies into the air and fly around.   I was a slow student and when they asked me to jump off a skyscraper I declined and so I was sent to a room with the other decliners and we all lay on our backs on a large platform and did some prescribed exercises for the mind until we had cleared out the mental blocks for flight.   It worked and when I came to this planet and started spending lifetimes here, one of my lifetimes I was called "girl who flies through our hair" in an Indian tribe in early North American continent (still had saber-tooths), and later in India where I did a refresher course in Yogic flying -- still very compulsively trying to create effects on others, so not very wise about the use of this ability, and that got me into enough trouble to where today I have a firm sub-command not to ever do that again. More accurately, it is probably hanging up in the mind as a "must fly/must not fly", etc.

Start of RI exercise : "Create something and put it all around you"

[Note: since in reality we are constantly mocking-up our holographic reality it is easy enough to conclude whatever is in our current mocked-up environment is of importance, so anything in the environment is game to be the subject of this exercise.  I generally choose something related to my fixation on the importance of life postulating itself as part of our postulated biosphere, esp. plants.   Life is hierarchical and this universe is nothing but life and postulates.]

An apple tree:
  • yawns, emotions, thoughts -- lots of thoughts - and images, almost overwhelming -- I must have been a bio-engineer in some other existence!
  • I would never have suspected that a simple apple tree would produce so much change within my psyche.
  • Unlike most humans, fruit trees actually wish to be desirable to be eaten -- within parameters set by it
  • Its diversity is a way of knowing how best to be known (sic, eaten) by as many as possible (appealing to all possible tastes)
  • timebreaking an incident that came up from the distant past - yawns

gotta get to work - to be continued

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/1/14 2:47 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
1Oct14 : Direct Looking

Up at 6:30am and sitting by 7:30am -- an improvement

Nirvana or nibbana is not mystical, esoteric and unreachable -- that is only how the mind may see it and, thus, the reason for this activity of vanishing the identification with the mind.

"Create Something"
An apple tree (let's see how it runs today); became a fruit-dominant biosphere
  • an apple tree where the apples hang on into the winter
  • fruit trees competing with each other for the favors of the animals
  • laughter of joy - a very complementary biosphere of plants and animals 
  • it has been working this out for millions of years
  • To eat and be eaten -- is that the best that can be expected of a biosphere?
  • everyone should be able to have their own virgin planet to play with -- to
    meditate upon  :-)
  • Someday I will run out the importance of biospheres
  • suddenly a biosphere feels heavy and cumbersome, cloying
  • I exteriorize from it and feel lighter, refreshed, life is simple again
  • would I go back?  For visits perhaps, but it could get boring, but what else can one do in this universe besides play with and on planets?
  • I scan my past track of games -- it is all losing its lustre -- where do awakening beings go and what games do they play now?  Don't feel like creating anything anymore.
  • would create a planet on a more pragmatic basis -- more for functionality
    than for any thirst for sensation
  • the "game" seems to be "evolution", awakening, and patiently assisting it through the ages - but it is not a game because it is reasonable.   Call it an "activity" - a fun activity.
  • spirits graduating and going to a higher estate, new spirits entering, as if
    the universe itself were one senior life-sphere, until one leaves this universe to the next higher.
  • love and communication between the beings of each planetary body - moving
    up the hierarchy, or take a left turn and go into the Causal - or a no-games state.
  • Just sit here and "know" all that has been brought into existence to be known in this universe
  • Even that grows old
  • many universes in front of me (put them all around me)
  • I'm retreating and becoming a small empty blackness, aware, but not engaged
  • it all seems to run by itself and I am only an observer, but I see I thunk it up, but I am not invested in my thoughts or dreams; it is like a finished work and seems almost invisible to me now
  • self-awareness only.  "What am I, I, I, I, I .... silence, void-like sleep
  • who or what will stir me?
  • I feel like a cow ready to be milked -- positive and passive
  • "I Am" is a sort of loop
  • "How does an apple tree seem to you now?"   everything and nothing, the cosmos and the void; nothing can hide the signature of its author -- it is all an expression of (without words).
  • Alas, I can hear Nisargadatta saying, "That's not IT!"   :-)  However, the mind is now satiated,and that is the purpose of this exercise
"Have Another Create Something"
Someone vanishing their mind  (I realize this turns into a metta practice - doing it this way)
DP/VT/CK/RC/
  • I'm seeing how I can be more effective in people's lives just staying home and doing "nothing"  ;-)
  • An Emergency Response Team of Clearing Technicians for those suffering from psychotic breaks ("Walk to that wall. Thank you ....")
  • Recall of scene of Church security telling a drunken man to "walk to that wall...." until he sobered and began to re-think his life.  Yawns
  • contemplating the insanity and near-insanity of others makes me groggy, frustrated
  • - an impossibility point comes up in my mind regards them
  • huge yawns
  • Aha!   I see it is my own mind that creates this - the impossibility of the insane and neurotic becoming sane, wholesome, no more dukkha
  • grief for my brothers and sisters -- they cannot run, they cannot hide for always will they take their dukkha with them, even into the astral.
  • They are in a games condition with their own mind, like a snake trying to eat itself out of existence, thinking the tail is the offender.
  • Desperate to quiet it whichever way except the way of introspection.  A slave to their own creation and its unexamined demands.
  • It is very frustrating to see an otherwise dynamic person being hauled around by the nose by a noisily demanding mind.
  • It looks so silly, so unnecessary
  • I see the importance of not forcing anything on them -- to not underestimate the extent of their dukkha
  • Wisdom before games of mental/emotional satiation is the turning point for all -- the ticket home
"How does contemplating their return seem to you now?"  
No frustrations, no delusions, mind quiet

10:45 am (take a break)

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/2/14 10:08 AM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
2OCT14 Direct Looking

Why I practice:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYk8WwXemE  (From OSHO, Wisdom vs Knowledge)

Last night a Direct Looking session given by my partner with the command:  "Get the idea of prevented from eating" and ended with my repeating "I must recreate the past/I must not recreate the past" which brought up an incident (before bodies) where we played a game that had to do with constantly creating surprising new things -- to have new sensations all the time -- and how this related to seeking sensation through cuisines, eating.  

These sessions force me to look at my accepted sensation seeking through eating (taste, smell, aesthetics, togethernesse, etc.) and my seeking into the mind for past pleasures and trying to re-create them, especially holidays and other festive (read, "eating") occasions.   I'm not even sure now if the mind can create anything unless it refers to the past.

Up late, alarm not going off -- get new alarm -- why do I need to sleep so long?  Looks like body needs 9 hours instead of 8?   Mostly saatvic diet (fruits and herbs) and health is very good.

8:09 Start of Sit

"Create Something"
  • Re-check importance of biospheres - from yesterday
  • No, food is coming up as importance .....   pizza
  • one really does have to come out of the world -- at least in a metaphysical sense - in the psyche
  • today mind is hiding -- don't go chasing, remain passive and keep creating
  • yawns
  • creative impulses turning on -- pizza dough is like a blank canvas to create upon anew - a new taste and smell and aesthetic experience, possibly some acclaim from others
  • a healthy pizza , hahhaha! 
  • Amy's vegan margharita pizza -- so tempting
  • have to be very hungry so food will taste better
  • shredded lettuce on top - a pizza as a salad
  • must not eat antibiotics
  • must not eat gluten
  • laughing -- joke's on me
  • it's worth it to be human
  • I came here for the chocolate based spiritual rituals
  • I'm very spiritual, haha
  • addicted to out of body phenomenon gotten from eating/drinking certain things (alkaloids and acids)
  • Don't need to eat or drink to get spiritual  mind-blowing experiences
  • pizza as a sacred ritual -- we pay homage to the god of sensation (Bacchus?)
  • hooked on spiritual sensation/phenomenon
  • hooked on bliss (trying to recreate the past)
  • exit, stage left, viewpoint exteriorized and looking down on devotees trying to assess the deeper meaning of each fragment of pizza topping through sensory perception.  Pizza as mandala.
  • admiration for all the "reasons why" we can conjure up so we can have our sensation just as good or better than it was before
  • My mind is loving this -- more pizza!
  • the sweet spot -- when I realize it is my mind and not me
  • the mind is mandated to not discreate -- forget, yes, but discreate, no
  • giving the mind a creation - like a crying baby needs a bottle
  • who is "source" now?   laughter
  • never get into a games condition with a crying baby, eh!
"How does importance of pizza seem to you now?"   The mind can have it, that's okay.  I am not my mind.

8:56 a.m.

"Have Another Create Something"
Marge makes a bologne sandwich for me
  • I think I'm so clever
  • ego likes this
  • ego:  while you're at it could you get me a pair of jeans too?
  • yawns
  • shared love and affection
  • mutually creating good effects upon each other
  • it all seems too "right"
  • Rasputin'ish -- can imbibe without succumbing
  • where have I seen all of this before - laughter
  • can the mind ever see what a joke it is?
  • my little vignette with Marge is going away
  • might as well make her take up ballet -- no, really
  • she looks so happy and self-fulfilled -- with nice people around her
  • she's really going for it
  • a turning point in her life 
  • note to self:  get Marge a hula hoop
  • can always turn it into a Christmas wreath
  • I'm really enjoying the picture of Marge taking ballet lessons
  • I'll tell her if she ever wants to go to an exercise class I will go with her
  • Call her doc and tell him to Rx exercise class to her
  • mind is happily busy solving a problem
  • I am sooo smart  -- until the other shoe drops
  • at least she is happy and that makes me happy too
  • Marge is stepping out of line and creating more happiness for herself
  • a Master lets the people think it is their own idea (Tao Te Ching)
  • Sinking and rising is part of the game Life gets up to, is enthralled with
  • "To play a better game" is everyone's dream
  • people love "rags to riches" stories, perpetuating winning and losing, and losing and winning
  • what is my "rags to riches" story?  The richness of restoring all options for life and games -- or no games; realization of the poverty of the mind compared to my real potential as a being
  • Marge is on her way to such richness
  • a quiet lover of all beings - she sits and penetrates, permeates with powerful self-mastery
  • Marge, may your lovingkindness always surround us
  • never accept a meal from someone which is not prepared and offered and accepted in love
  • gratitude, thankfulness

9:33am, take a break











 

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/3/14 10:00 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
3Oct14 Direct Looking:

7:46pm  "Create An Importance - 6 Directions"

An insightful approach to business
  • yawns
  • "Business Person" identities running off
  • I don't necessarily have to mock up an identity
  • hatred for business -  profit, exploitation, rampant materialism, status seeking
  • accept the learning curve -- proper self-assessment
  • love for learning and interaction
  • gratitude for my practice

End of sit

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/4/14 10:02 AM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
4Oct14  Direct Looking:

Direct looking still being avoided/resisted, however "Importances" exercise seems to become more effective and it is a crucial foundational exercise so will not push the stats just yet -- continue developing with the Importance exercises.

7:14am  :  "Create an Importance"

To Control - A Controlling Person
  • yawns, images, scenes
  • a havingness, having a controlling person feels like a havingness
  • delight
  • I like being controlled -- makes the other person responsible
  • the other person is more right and more superior than I am
  • controlling person does not teach me to think for myself
  • when I'm a controlling person I do not teach others to think for themselves
  • a controlling person gives opinions, judgements, suggestions almost as commands
  • a Master merely asks questions that generate insights -- "how might you solve that problem?"
  • a controlling person burdens himself and forms attachments
  • a Master is detached
  • trap a person by provoking the need to be controlled, playing upon their compulsion
  • controlling person must convince other they need to be controlled (put them down somehow)
  • good control vs bad control
  • craving to have someone else tell one what to think - someone who knows only degradation and tyranny
  • egoic resistance to control
  • desire to have someone who wishes to be controlled -- the joy of that
  • better to teach them insight meditation
  • robotic person needs to be controlled until no longer robotic -- needs therapeutic measures
  • seeking to control others towards self-mastery instead of controlling self towards self-mastery
  • running one's own Dukkha on another instead of addressing it as one's own dukkha
  • there is control as a life-goal -- control of oneself is most powerful -- and then others as if they were self - from that higher viewpoint
  • silence of the mind needs no control
  • it is okay to control and to be controlled -- can be a fun game provided one can quit at any time and go complementary
  • a compulsively controlling person wants a fight in order to get that "I'm in control" sensation; overwhelming the resister gives sensation -- I feel it
  • a compulsively controlling person seeks his level -- seeks out people susceptible to being controlled
  • a compulsively controlling person is in danger of flipping valences into "must be controlled" (myself)
  • control is not the enemy, rather the compulsion to control leads to bad choices and entrapment -- is not the way "home"
  • one can only be in good control to the extent they can control themselves - to the extent they are not compulsive
  • sad to see a "must control" person -- not a good game
  • a "must control" person cannot have a game unless there is someone who "must be controlled" -- a non-life goal for both, eventually, i.e., "must subjugate/must be subjugated"
  • a must-control person will insist he's not trying to control you ...  "but ....  "    laughter
  • feels like a low, degrading game
  • we don't need to play that anymore
  • invite control by asking for advice -- use powers of insight instead?
  • an insightful person can give good advices when asked but better to help one get their own insights
  • very important to clear my mind of "musts and must nots"
  • "it's important to have a 'very important person' in one's life"  -- take a look at that
  • maintaining my practice takes top importance
  • having a v.i.p. makes me feel both important and not important
  • I like to play games -- for that good sensation at the expense of another
  • whenever I feel uncomfortable with someone it is my "must/must not" opposing their "must not/must"
  • the true opposer is self against self, wherein lies the origins of the mind
  • yawns ("recall a time when you opposed yourself")
  • from the highest viewpoint, there was never a time when I opposed myself -- that too is an apparency
  • "recall a time when your mind opposed itself"   -  more yawns
  • "recall the first time you set up opposing goals"  --  more yawns
  • they feel like they originated within me
  • "GET THE IDEA OF ORIGINATING OPPOSING GOALS"  -- yawns
  • it seemed like a good idea at the time -- like it might give me a thrill, pursue that thrill
  • jaw-breaking yawns
  • all sensations can be self-generated if one knows how -- makes pursuing those goals a little less interesting -- less of a compulsive edge to them.
  • "How does a controlling person seem to you now?"   It's just me.
10:57  End of sit. (run next, 'have another create an importance')

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/4/14 7:31 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
4Oct14  Direct Looking:

7:03 pm  "Have Another Create an Importance - 6 directions"

Serenity of beingness
  • yawns
  • this is so wonderful -- why don't I do it more often!
  • feel like I could sit here and do this all day -- presto! world changed!
  • having others create is just as powerful as having self create
  • both creates require mastery of self over the noisy mind regards self and regards others
  • This is so much better than worrying about someone
"Think only upon those things  you want."   Lester Levenson, "Ultimate Freedom"

End of sit.

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/5/14 9:25 AM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
5Oct14  Direct Looking :

Session with partner rudely stripped away big chunk of ego-protective and limiting way-of-being.  Appears to have been picked up from Mother (which she picked up from her mother, etc.).   Kept repeating "I Know" .... it had already started to come apart and I was ready for it, but still lots of tears ("I'm melting, I'm melting" - is this what is called "The Dark Night"?) and feeling very naked, soft - no longer brittle and hard - defenseless.  
Then for balance, ran "I don't know" which brought up scenes of degradation - both done to me and what I had done to others and had been my "reason why" for keeping the armor in place.  Flipping back and forth between arrogance and self-deprecation.

Felt like crossing of the Rubicon -- no ships or bridges to go back -- and the game is now exposed and I can't do that anymore, neither do I want to.   I cannot say for sure the whole issue is 100% resolved, but am more resolved to get on with my "exit, stage left" plan -- doing my practices.   Truthfully, I would appreciate more sessions like that, in spite of the death throes.  

Now, that is something new I probably have not done for a few eons - actually clear the mind.   I feel that when I first cracked from the Egg, I left the starting gate with a strong "something's just not right here" feeling and am finally starting to deal with it.  I know it was a long time ago but it has always been with me through existence as if it had happened today.  Today is all that counts.  Need to learn to put the past back into the past...to let go like I did last night.

8:21 a.m.  "Create an Importance - 6 directions"

A Silent Person
  • feels impossible
  • would have to stop wanting to play the game of being known and knowing
  • would have to internalize that, resolve that
  • happy to respond to others but ego is silent
  • no ego needs due to maintaining higher viewpoints
  • simple, patient, compassionate
  • centered on the "tao"
  • I was trying to give my life some sort of meaning, purpose
  • Osho said about Mother Therese, "It is about time for her to jump in a lake".
  • At first I could not see this silent person as me but now I am starting to see it is within me, but under a lot of accretion of postulates...they make my mind jittery and noisy ... they are my mind
  • the meaning and purpose of life seems to have been to aggrandize my ego - to increase it as myself
  • a silent person seems useless for my purposes, however, I wish to re-assess my purposes
  • the desire to be more than the baseline of zero is strong
  • no purpose -- just being -- seems very peaceful
  • as long as I am not concerned in any way by how that beingness is being
  • "aware" is the baseline  - remove obstructions to aware
  • I love and trust my path even more
  • voluntarily dropping all compulsions
"How does a silent person seem to you now?"   An optional beingness, whereas before it seemed impossible

10:06 am   "Have Another Create an Importance - 6 directions"

A grape arbor (feels "grounding")
  • yawn -- it's just me wearing a different "costume"
  • reminds me of this particular limited beingness -- I want to be the one doing it, but feel I can't
  • yawns

Oh, dear -- interruption (to be continued)

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/5/14 5:30 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
5Oct14  Direct Looking (continued)

"Have Another Create an Importance" (continued)
A grape arbor (continued)

This appears to be more of an exercise in pan-determinism.

detect feelings of lack
yawns - many big yawns
"How does a grape arbor seem to you now?"   Like it just might happen, and feel more detached too.

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/6/14 10:21 AM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
8:54 am   Direct Looking - 6 directions:

Life got a little too interesting this morning, with my hobbies, and I will use that for the subject of today's insight meditation.  Much "shifting" occurred yesterday from the previous mind-blowing session and I had to periodically during the day stop and put something all around me to clear the mind and assist the shift.  Body also responded to the shift with its own de-tox.

"Create an Importance" - 6 directions
Building a neat-o tinyhouse on wheels

Can already feel the compulsive create mechanism turning on and I used to worship that but now feel it is a bit uncomfortable, unnatural, not really how I wish to create anymore -- seeking the mind for answers.  I have this idea that better ideas come "from above" or from a more analytical, detached mind -- whatever remains once the compulsive mind is out of the way.  But then, one may decide not to do it and be okay with that.   Right now, I could decide not to do it, but it would be suppressing a desire, not resolving it.
  • To create or not to create are both options (the mind gets too fixed on one or the other -- or just gets hung up between both)
  • craving for that particular "in-the-zone" create sensation; it is an awesome sensation and I can see how one can get stuck in it -- feels almost next-to-god
  • Once I went to register my complaint with a "Game Lord" who was high up in the hierarchy of life, and he told me I could change it because I created it.  Cheeky bastard.   Was also told that in another place I visited.  That is true for all, not just for me and the trick is to find that out for ourselves.
  • mind wants to pull out the graph paper
  • yawns
  • with this compulsion there is a feeling of force
  • auction it on Ebay
  • give it to charity
  • everyone needs to take responsibility for their life, for their past, now, and future
  • everyone needs to take responsibility for their own mind, their own mental structure
  • a tinyhouse as portable, interactive canvas
  • the delight is in the nicely surprising discovery of details
  • waiting for direction from "god"
  • laughing
  • afraid I might take this process "too far" and decide I don't want to build a tinyhouse  :-(
  • laughing out loud -- joke's on me
  • "Get the feeling of how good that would feel -- building a perfect tinyhouse"
  • washing the dog feels so boring and mundane, yech!
  • get rid of the dog  (laughing)  must focus
  • besides I want a cat anyways
  • I love my mind  :-)
  • laugh attack
  • "How does building a perfect tinyhouse seem to you now?"   Really funny, can't stop laughing
  • grateful for my isolated quiet space to laugh away in
  • don't stop -- laughing is part of the process
  • can't help myself - can't stop myself (use repeater tech on "I can't help myself")
  • yawns, laughs at the joke of it all
  • "I can't help myself, I just have to do it!"   (repeat)
  • "I can't help myself from feeling this way!" (repeat with emphasis)
  • peals of laughter -- oh the things I say to myself  :-)
  • [this method of noting is soooo awesome -- it really keeps me focused and moving along quickly]
  • [closing eyes to go deeper into mind] I can see/hear my mom saying that long ago, lol
  • seeing/hearing others say this
  • "I want to go home", lol
  • Run "must feel / must not feel"
  • "I must feel"   (an emotion, sensation)
  • "see, feel it"
  • "I must have that experience" -- also -- "I must have this experience"
  • wanting to have the experience of now AND the experience of the past -- how to do that?
  • why, simply stack all of the past up with the now, voila!
  • grief, loss -- running "I must have this experience"
  • see an actress on a stage agreeing to have an experience for the entertainment of others
  • bringing up a scene from yesterday and re-viewing it
  • yawns, scene fading, losing importance

repairing loss of importance by putting scene of me building a tinyhouse all around me 360 degrees (yawns)
-- replacing a fixed importance with one of my own conjuring

11:20 am -- gotta get going   (perhaps to be continued)

RE: Practice Log toward vanishing the mind
Answer
10/7/14 12:24 PM as a reply to Colleen Karalee Peltomaa.
7Oct14  Direct Looking:

Eternal bliss comes only after the job is done.   However, yesterday for about 2 hours had a taste of it.  A nice chunk of Dukkha fell off during session with partner.   Yesterday it was a beautiful day and I looked at the clouds and they seemed unreal somehow.   I started repeating to myself, "It's only a movie", and things started happening in the mind -- things kept coming up and then leaving, one after the other.  Letting go of importances.

Then came the question, "Could you take responsibility for this movie?"   The answer was "to take no action" -- to no longer be a player in this movie -- to take myself out seemed to be the most responsible thing to do.  My partner was making fun of the silly smile on my face and I saw him as another actor wearing a costume (his body).  

It went on and on and as I became involved in the mundane chores I started noting (thank you to all the "noters" on this forum) -- noting that I was "scripting".  Ah!  The Writer -- my nemesis archetype.  He's a lot better now though -- doesn't write such scary stories anymore.   Whenever the scripting turned on I noted to myself, "scripting".   Got some mileage from that.  Also, from "rehearsing".   It was all a fun game played eons ago and now put on automatic.

7:50am  "Create an Importance" - 6 directions:

A Surprise
  • what does a creator do?  create effects   what does that give the creator?   a surprise
  • yawn
  • where does the surprise come from?   "over there"
  • some people don't like surprises -- even nice ones
  • yawns
  • mind brings up good and bad memories of surprises -- flowing past me while I yawn
  • gratitude for my teachers, for my practices
  • "All I ever wanted was a surprise"
  • "they can surprise me, but I must not surprise them"  that's not fun ...
  • cut through the complications and simply postulate a surprise
  • you can't say what it is because then it would not be a surprise
  • you can say, "a nice surprise" if you can only experience "nice" effects
  • nice, self-fulfilling feeling ensues
  • putting it all around me -- this no-thing in the center
  • body somatics turn on
  • there is a scale or categorization of types of surprises (by sensation) and in the body it is called Chakras
  • a being should be free to leave a game anytime  -- this is a surprise people don't like
  • no reason should be needed other than, "I don't want to play games anymore", or "I want to play some other games", and if wanting to play other games, attention must be paid to ending off properly, especially in male/female relationships
  • "How does a surprise seem to you now?"   "I wish to stop playing that game on a compulsion"
  • In my sits I'm always surprised what will come up and how the sit ends
  • When I tell myself to "create a surprise" I cannot create the actual surprise and I can only get the feeling I feel when I am surprised, and I put that all around me.
  • sensations coming from root chakra and spleen chakra
  • okay, now emotions, etc. really turning on - why did it take such a long time?  I was being in my head, not passive enough - expecting the same results
  • yawn, dread, excitement
  • shock
  • past incidents coming up (keeping eyes open while re-viewing)
  • a disappointing surprise - anticlimatic or 'not what I wanted'
  • TIMEBREAKING STARTS HERE:  A sticking incident from long ago and contains intense sensation and reaction - 6 directions - yawns
  • If I can throw a picture into someone's mind it stands to reason another could do the same
  • Life and postulates and throwing up scenes of a play  -  recreate that scene and put it all around you
  • make it really important
  • throw in a white cat
  • makes me know I am the center of it -- I created it - I am the zero point
  • introduce a feather - tickles, laughter.   who is it doing the laughing?  who is feeling the tickles?  I am
  • what am I?  A tickle machine  ???    
  • Re-view the incident
  • feel like I pick-pocketed someone else's mind - their incidents
  • everything I ever believed important is rubbish
  • only my practice has importance, relatively speaking
  • If I keep seeing that anything my mind has to show me is rubbish -- of no importance -- what's to become of me?
  • I've been holding onto all these to build importance -- to make "myself" important, and more important than others, and to really impress myself until I forgot that I am the source of it all and that source is only awareness of potential.
  • by trying to solve a problem, or score a point, I created more problems and dug in deeper and deeper into games play, devil-may-care attitude
  • when you have removed the postulate structure of the play - the skeleton - all the emotions and sensations and "not-selfs" and anything associated with that postulate structure falls away.   Take away the structure and the mind is undone - vanished.
  • sobering
  • life is hierarchical -- games within games within games and I saw the larger game of beings stealing pictures from other beings and also implanting pictures into other beings.   This went on wholesale at that games level.  As with all games, eventually one's viewpoint and potential deteriorates to a lower level of games play.
  • Now it makes sense why I like being a "mind-doctor" - my interest in the mind
Only by postulate agreement would anyone be considered sane -- as long as they agree with me and I agree with them then we are both sane or at least in agreement to be insane.

All games are unreasonable and if "unreasonable" = insanity then we are by default, when entering into a game, agreeing to unreasonableness.   Is that "sane"?   It sure can be a lot of fun/sensation though, and we can get quite a challenge creatively coming up with "reasons why" for our be-do-have postulations.
 
My best advice (to self and "not-selfs") :  sideline yourself off the playing field as best you can and invest your time into learning how to take apart the postulates you made (and now cannot take apart because of the importance invested in them). Take a write-off, call it a loss if you must.  So what if the mind gets noisy and chattery - that happens when it is not getting its usual methods of satiation by sensation.  I.E., sex, food, possessions, control, admiration, love, aesthetics, etc.

At the very worst, we will find ourselves on a whole new higher, more expansive field of interaction, where games are more fun than they are being stuck in the viewpoint of a human body.  The operative word here is "stuck" by imposed limitations as a natural result of playing games, i.e., spiraling cycles of winning/losing. Nothing wrong with being human on a totally voluntary, knowing basis, willing to leave the game at any time, win or lose.  

I used to be able to think like a Games Master and now I can only make a squirrel think about an acorn and feel I've done something rather unusual.   I'm walking away from it all -- from bottom to top.  Because, truthfully, even a Games Master wil lose his footing.  This is the shortcoming of my associates -- they wish only to restore themselves to some higher games level, or to play a better game.  Nirvana is not in their scopes.   The power of full self-mastery.

No more half-way re-hab for me.  I need to once again be able to be in an absolute "no-games" condition (nirvana), and alternately, an absolutely voluntary games player - cycling between the two and nothing more or less.  End of rant.  :-)

"How does a surprise seem to you now?"   I enjoy the surprise of being released from a stuck viewpoint of importance and viewing life  -- and myself -- from a higher perspective.  I like the expanded perspective that is less narrow and limited.  I find it refreshing.   Surprises happen everyday.  Life happening.

I feel very fortunate to have fallen off the game field -- considered a "broken piece" and left alone, not impressed into anyone else's game.  Very blessed in that respect.  Now I am re isupposed to want to do the proper thing and fix myself so I can once again be a "citizen", a "player".

Here is how a being feels when he finds out his postulates aren't working anymore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1z7OlhJJ4


"Have Another Create Something" - 6 directions