08-27-2008, 12:00 AM
"This has been my experience in the past. My experiences have been "all over the map" so to speak. But I remembered two things my teacher said
which fit these two methods together.
1. "Sometimes a student is given an experience that is wayyy beyond their abilities." ...and...
2. "To repeat an experience all you have to do is remember the feeling." "
I was thinking about this last night and I remembered another thing he said:
3. "The first time you experience something, it's a gift. The second time you've mastered that experience.
I see that as being true. At least the first half of that. I've always looked at those things as gifts. I've had experiences that seemed to have
"fallen" on me. Sometimes during meditations and sometimes while awake with no apparent volition on my part. (Though I know what I was thinking and
or doing leading up to those experiences. And what meditations I was practicing at those times in some cases.)
If I think those thoughts and do those meditations and attempt to remember the feelings I should be able to repeat those experiences.
That's why I believe he would have used the word "master."
I would be consciously causing those experiences to happen. In that case I would have been given those experiences in the first place so that I would have them
again later.
So that I would retrace my journey.
which fit these two methods together.
1. "Sometimes a student is given an experience that is wayyy beyond their abilities." ...and...
2. "To repeat an experience all you have to do is remember the feeling." "
I was thinking about this last night and I remembered another thing he said:
3. "The first time you experience something, it's a gift. The second time you've mastered that experience.
I see that as being true. At least the first half of that. I've always looked at those things as gifts. I've had experiences that seemed to have
"fallen" on me. Sometimes during meditations and sometimes while awake with no apparent volition on my part. (Though I know what I was thinking and
or doing leading up to those experiences. And what meditations I was practicing at those times in some cases.)
If I think those thoughts and do those meditations and attempt to remember the feelings I should be able to repeat those experiences.
That's why I believe he would have used the word "master."
I would be consciously causing those experiences to happen. In that case I would have been given those experiences in the first place so that I would have them
again later.
So that I would retrace my journey.