11-10-2016, 12:00 AM
Hi nameless,
long responses are fine with me . Sru it took me a while to respond with yuku moving sites to new servers and the site being down for a couple of days, but it seems everything is running smoothly now. I love talking with others about the interesting things on the path and learning from them or having a back and forth about ideas on certain things, but one (as in me ) needs to have a few things come together in order to be able to post. Maybe you can come by the chat to have a talk sometime, people start being real faster.
I like your explanation of formlessness. It feels real what you describe, especially the threatening aspect. I can very easily imagine this being the case, uncomfortable for the ego or mind of the other people.
Ideally, when the dream is over what remains is our experience, knowledge and awareness . Memory, yea, still working on that one .
What I mean to say is that hopefully it is not just memory that remains, our experience is transmuted into learning and awareness. I have realized that working with our experiences, whether from dreams or from this here reality, is crucial for us to tighten the awareness linked to these experiences. It is like building a staircase out of blocks. One block is the dream, another block is our memory and for example writing it down, another block is working with this written down or remembered part and maybe looking at a certain aspect that stood out, another block could be writing a story or a song linked to the feeling or experience, etc. Of course we might not have the time nor might it be wise to devote such meticulous procedure to every dream or experience that we have, but that is not what I want to focus on here. It is almost like squeezing a lemon. The dream is a taste, a smell... but keep at it and at the end one has a delicious lemonade .
I have a lot to learn in the department of when and how to stop stuff that needs to be stopped .
So is it finding your truth that gives you the enthusiasm and spark to live and walk the path? Or mystery?
I'd like to hear more about your death experiences. It is intriguing.
I agree, blaming gets us nowhere. Many of the things we do are just habits anyway and they have no real substance at all. Is it not fascinating and terrifying at the same time?
I am glad that I could offer a different angle or layer to look from and that you accepted this offer and are making your own discoveries . I would say that it is ideal to have a kind of feline-like relaxed but 'in readiness and action at any moment' type of body setting. I am not there though . One can achieve the ready to whatever mode and not have tenseness. If you allow your body to relax I think it would be very glad. I wonder how it is for veterans though, I always tend to imagine that stuff one experiences can have an enormous impact on us. I found that any kind of block in my mind or awareness made my body less relaxed, as in, more tense. But, what I am not happy about, is that also other people's tenseness makes me tense. If I am near a person who is in a certain bad state my body starts to feel similarly strained.
But thinking about this, you must know, as a person who has been in dangerous situations (or so I imagine) that allowing the body fluidity to do its own reacting and movement is life-saving. I wonder if you can allow the body to have this fluidity if you are perpetually tense. I am always fascinated if I see a person that is in this relaxed state of readiness and fluidity. Martial arts is in this sense a useful discipline
Seems natural to me that energy which has a purpose does not like obstructions
Thank you for sharing a part of your story with us. It has been a nice read . Hope to read more from you, so, till then
long responses are fine with me . Sru it took me a while to respond with yuku moving sites to new servers and the site being down for a couple of days, but it seems everything is running smoothly now. I love talking with others about the interesting things on the path and learning from them or having a back and forth about ideas on certain things, but one (as in me ) needs to have a few things come together in order to be able to post. Maybe you can come by the chat to have a talk sometime, people start being real faster.
I like your explanation of formlessness. It feels real what you describe, especially the threatening aspect. I can very easily imagine this being the case, uncomfortable for the ego or mind of the other people.
Ideally, when the dream is over what remains is our experience, knowledge and awareness . Memory, yea, still working on that one .
What I mean to say is that hopefully it is not just memory that remains, our experience is transmuted into learning and awareness. I have realized that working with our experiences, whether from dreams or from this here reality, is crucial for us to tighten the awareness linked to these experiences. It is like building a staircase out of blocks. One block is the dream, another block is our memory and for example writing it down, another block is working with this written down or remembered part and maybe looking at a certain aspect that stood out, another block could be writing a story or a song linked to the feeling or experience, etc. Of course we might not have the time nor might it be wise to devote such meticulous procedure to every dream or experience that we have, but that is not what I want to focus on here. It is almost like squeezing a lemon. The dream is a taste, a smell... but keep at it and at the end one has a delicious lemonade .
I have a lot to learn in the department of when and how to stop stuff that needs to be stopped .
So is it finding your truth that gives you the enthusiasm and spark to live and walk the path? Or mystery?
I'd like to hear more about your death experiences. It is intriguing.
I agree, blaming gets us nowhere. Many of the things we do are just habits anyway and they have no real substance at all. Is it not fascinating and terrifying at the same time?
I am glad that I could offer a different angle or layer to look from and that you accepted this offer and are making your own discoveries . I would say that it is ideal to have a kind of feline-like relaxed but 'in readiness and action at any moment' type of body setting. I am not there though . One can achieve the ready to whatever mode and not have tenseness. If you allow your body to relax I think it would be very glad. I wonder how it is for veterans though, I always tend to imagine that stuff one experiences can have an enormous impact on us. I found that any kind of block in my mind or awareness made my body less relaxed, as in, more tense. But, what I am not happy about, is that also other people's tenseness makes me tense. If I am near a person who is in a certain bad state my body starts to feel similarly strained.
But thinking about this, you must know, as a person who has been in dangerous situations (or so I imagine) that allowing the body fluidity to do its own reacting and movement is life-saving. I wonder if you can allow the body to have this fluidity if you are perpetually tense. I am always fascinated if I see a person that is in this relaxed state of readiness and fluidity. Martial arts is in this sense a useful discipline
Seems natural to me that energy which has a purpose does not like obstructions
Thank you for sharing a part of your story with us. It has been a nice read . Hope to read more from you, so, till then