01-26-2008, 12:00 AM
Hi Vrill,
"The implication is to be hyper-vigilant, very alert, not dozy here, while not changing anything in Mind. Can you just leave your mind alone? We want to control it."
What the author may be speaking of here (and I'm not sure) is what Western Mysticism calls "Mind Awareness" and what Don Juan called "Recapitulation".
To re-experience our past but not experiencing the emotions that went along with those events can go a long way toward curing our "hang-ups" and emotional "complexes.
In deep relaxed meditation or contemplation we can watch those scenes go by as if we were watching T.V. As if it were happening to someone else, so to speak.
To try to "control" those thoughts is to be subjective and subject to thoses emotions. This gives those events power over you. And attaches more emotion to the memory of those events.
To let them run their course and just witness them as if from afar is to be "objective." This in turn breaks up these "complexes" and disengages or disconnects any emotional reaction to these events.
Like I said it seems to fit what the author had in mind.
Many key words here. Not Dozy and alert and vigilant.
In many weekend meditations I noticed in myself and others the tendancy to fall asleep during this type of meditation.
It is an avoidance technique. To replay the past does not appeal to anyone as inevitably the negative events show up.
To stay objective is the challenge.
Bob
"The implication is to be hyper-vigilant, very alert, not dozy here, while not changing anything in Mind. Can you just leave your mind alone? We want to control it."
What the author may be speaking of here (and I'm not sure) is what Western Mysticism calls "Mind Awareness" and what Don Juan called "Recapitulation".
To re-experience our past but not experiencing the emotions that went along with those events can go a long way toward curing our "hang-ups" and emotional "complexes.
In deep relaxed meditation or contemplation we can watch those scenes go by as if we were watching T.V. As if it were happening to someone else, so to speak.
To try to "control" those thoughts is to be subjective and subject to thoses emotions. This gives those events power over you. And attaches more emotion to the memory of those events.
To let them run their course and just witness them as if from afar is to be "objective." This in turn breaks up these "complexes" and disengages or disconnects any emotional reaction to these events.
Like I said it seems to fit what the author had in mind.
Many key words here. Not Dozy and alert and vigilant.
In many weekend meditations I noticed in myself and others the tendancy to fall asleep during this type of meditation.
It is an avoidance technique. To replay the past does not appeal to anyone as inevitably the negative events show up.
To stay objective is the challenge.
Bob