11-09-2009, 12:00 AM
Interesting and perceptive!
The idea of splitting attention came from Gurdjieff who I studied formally for many years. All of his techniques involve doing two or more things at once.
My personal technique involves doing nine things (three triads of attention) at once, formally, informally it involves trying at least one of the nine things,
gradually until you can hold more than one. But that comes from the enneagram, or a nine pointed geometric figure. Which is a teaching Gurdjieff was known
for, although I don't know if he created it, intuited it, or got it from a School. No one knows really, or at least not officially, but I digress.
In reality, nine points of attention is impossible for ordinary attention. But if attention is functioning highly at another level, it all just happens at
once and it's simply one movement. At any rate at that point conscious is non-dual point and there's not lots to talk about. The journey I speak about
refers to the possibility of integrating the highly fractured self by using Attention.
Err just to clarify, and simplify what the first Panchen Lama says is all you really need to know about how to go empty and non-dual.
While in a state of total absorption as before, and like a tiny fish flashing about in a lucid pond and not disturbing it, intelligently inspect
the self-nature of the person who is meditating.
Through the dispassionate inspection, realization may come, and the realization itself is on the order of what the Self or non-self is all about.
Tomes have been written about that though!!
Nine points are simply mind training, there are many systems, or you can make your own one up LOL. It really doesn't matter which path you take to get to
the center, it's getting the center that is vital, and not just for your own sake but for the sake of all beings.
The idea of splitting attention came from Gurdjieff who I studied formally for many years. All of his techniques involve doing two or more things at once.
My personal technique involves doing nine things (three triads of attention) at once, formally, informally it involves trying at least one of the nine things,
gradually until you can hold more than one. But that comes from the enneagram, or a nine pointed geometric figure. Which is a teaching Gurdjieff was known
for, although I don't know if he created it, intuited it, or got it from a School. No one knows really, or at least not officially, but I digress.
In reality, nine points of attention is impossible for ordinary attention. But if attention is functioning highly at another level, it all just happens at
once and it's simply one movement. At any rate at that point conscious is non-dual point and there's not lots to talk about. The journey I speak about
refers to the possibility of integrating the highly fractured self by using Attention.
Err just to clarify, and simplify what the first Panchen Lama says is all you really need to know about how to go empty and non-dual.
While in a state of total absorption as before, and like a tiny fish flashing about in a lucid pond and not disturbing it, intelligently inspect
the self-nature of the person who is meditating.
Through the dispassionate inspection, realization may come, and the realization itself is on the order of what the Self or non-self is all about.
Tomes have been written about that though!!
Nine points are simply mind training, there are many systems, or you can make your own one up LOL. It really doesn't matter which path you take to get to
the center, it's getting the center that is vital, and not just for your own sake but for the sake of all beings.