10-15-2017, 12:01 AM
"The known or mental projection must be dismantled, attempting to peer through the gaps in your known mental projection is not a safe practice."
What do you mean by peering through the gaps of known mental projection? And why is that not a safe practice?
Recapitulation, as I've experienced it, opens up gaps within the known by progressively retracting the impetus to mentally project tethered by emotional investment associated with historical moments within which the unknown became known through direct experience...like having sex for the first time. Some simply cannot interrupt the compulsion to mentally project once its gathered momentum....and recapitulation helps progressively withdraw the emotional impetus behind that compulsion so that at least the possibility of experiencing the gap becomes available....the centimeter of chance.
The gap...or inner silence....opens up the possibility of experiencing, again, the unknown...just like when we were children. I guess that can be dangerous but, seemingly to me, only by virtue of the fact of the possibility for the same process being initiated...that of the unknown becoming known and hardened around or clung to via compulsive mental projection. Thus, the second attention just becomes another trap within which one can be enmeshed. The solution, to me...whether or not someone has undergone recapitulation (I'm reminded of Zen monks who freely experience the unknown via sustaining the open space of that "gap". They don't recapitulate...they just compulsively practice inner silence) revolves around one's stance when the unknown comes into view through those gaps. Do I revert to indulgence.....clinging....seeking a sense of familiarity or clinging....or can I remain in contact with what provided the opportunity to experience the unknown....to navigate through the unknown without giving in to this compulsion.
I could be wrong about all this, but that's my take based on personal experience.
Just a quick addendum: My impression is that there are those who escape who never spend a single second in recapitulation. How is that possible? To me, the content of what needs to be recapitulated is always directly in front of us and is upheld by the mechanism which holds the known in place...mental projection, qualification, expectation, categorization. To escape means to progressively disrupt that mechanism in a sustained fashion until escape is at hand.
What do you mean by peering through the gaps of known mental projection? And why is that not a safe practice?
Recapitulation, as I've experienced it, opens up gaps within the known by progressively retracting the impetus to mentally project tethered by emotional investment associated with historical moments within which the unknown became known through direct experience...like having sex for the first time. Some simply cannot interrupt the compulsion to mentally project once its gathered momentum....and recapitulation helps progressively withdraw the emotional impetus behind that compulsion so that at least the possibility of experiencing the gap becomes available....the centimeter of chance.
The gap...or inner silence....opens up the possibility of experiencing, again, the unknown...just like when we were children. I guess that can be dangerous but, seemingly to me, only by virtue of the fact of the possibility for the same process being initiated...that of the unknown becoming known and hardened around or clung to via compulsive mental projection. Thus, the second attention just becomes another trap within which one can be enmeshed. The solution, to me...whether or not someone has undergone recapitulation (I'm reminded of Zen monks who freely experience the unknown via sustaining the open space of that "gap". They don't recapitulate...they just compulsively practice inner silence) revolves around one's stance when the unknown comes into view through those gaps. Do I revert to indulgence.....clinging....seeking a sense of familiarity or clinging....or can I remain in contact with what provided the opportunity to experience the unknown....to navigate through the unknown without giving in to this compulsion.
I could be wrong about all this, but that's my take based on personal experience.
Just a quick addendum: My impression is that there are those who escape who never spend a single second in recapitulation. How is that possible? To me, the content of what needs to be recapitulated is always directly in front of us and is upheld by the mechanism which holds the known in place...mental projection, qualification, expectation, categorization. To escape means to progressively disrupt that mechanism in a sustained fashion until escape is at hand.