02-09-2009, 12:00 AM
offlineartwarrior.parallelperception wrote:
> I get confused about the flyer myself.
I'm not surprised. Our mind parasites deploy a huge repertoire of diversions to throw at a host who is becoming aware of them. But specifically, how are
you confused?
> I want to know what you guys do to rid yourself of this energy eater.
I can't speak for anyone else, but here are some of my practices. They're very interrelated:
Vigilance, becoming more consciously aware of its activities - when it's causing things to happen, rather than me.
Mental Discipline - Anything practiced in the yogas, like concentration, but especially, practicing silence - i.e., attempting to turn off all thought for a
period. In the trenches of daily experience, however, the vigilant practitioner will find an opportunity in every moment to discipline themselves mentally to
recognize and resist the impulses originating from their mental predator.
Self - Inquiry: Ask your own self BTW, what do to get rid of your F.I. Crocosuarius recently made an excellent post expounding this practice in a reply to
Docta Lee about "where to start". The sage Sri Ramana Maharshi called Self-Inquiry "Atma-vicara" and the "Direct Path" of
enlightenment - a yogic alternative to the Raja, Juanani and Bahkti paths. Thus implying sincere self inquiry creates a conscious link with one's personal
spiritual essence and ultimately, the true and only Self/Atma. You can read his little book on the subject: online http://www.realization.or...e/topics/self_inquiry.htm
Don Juan discussed practical approaches briefly in Castaneda's quintessential Mud Shadows chapter in Active Side of Infinity. His main admonition was to
practice discipline - I've just discussed some of the mental practices above. One interesting approach was to cultivate one's real mind. I have
interpreted this as the act of listening to the still small voice from within and focusing on the conscious impulses that originate from the heart center. I
have worked on and made progress in this pursuit, but cannot adequately verbalize the qualities of the real mind for others, nor specific techniques. It's
a matter of working at it regularly and becoming more aware of what's there.
I think it's worth mentioning that I see , in the order of teachings which Don Juan presented in Castaneda's books, a deliberately graduated
curriculum. The very last dissertation Don Juan gave was about the Foreign Installation and in it he very explicitly stated that he was exposing the capstone
subject which all his other instructions were leading up to. Therefore, it naturally falls that all the practices he illustrated throughout the series are
practical exercises in getting rid of one's F.I.
> I am curious that in all this verbal sparring that you are doing with each other, there is not a mention of what it is you do yourselves to rid yourselves
of it.
Honestly, that's not very observant of you. It hasn't even been a month since I posted a practical dissertation entitled "Don't shoot yourself
in the foot". Croco posted that juicy one I just mentioned. So your conclusion falls from not doing your homework adequately - read more of these posts,
especially the older ones. Check out the installments of my paper "Encounters with the Foreign Installation", and other dissertations on this forum.
Also, don't knock verbal sparring as a practical method for discovering the modus opperandi of the Foreign Installation in yourself and others. This is a
very useful practice in *Stalking*! It is one which my friend J uses constantly and relentlessly. Every time I talk to him, which is usually in an email, he
minutely picks apart everything I say. Sometimes he replies me meticulous, line-by-line annotations, to illustrate his "proofs" of my own F.I.'s
constant presence and interferences. He can be downright brutal about it, or so it seems at times. But damned if after my irrational whimpering about it
subsides, it hasn't facilitated in me, substantial insights. (He's going to kick my ass if/when he sees this, and measure out for me in exact terms,
how little of his drift I've actually caught onto over the years, but oh well...there it is.)
Peace,
Toltechie
> I get confused about the flyer myself.
I'm not surprised. Our mind parasites deploy a huge repertoire of diversions to throw at a host who is becoming aware of them. But specifically, how are
you confused?
> I want to know what you guys do to rid yourself of this energy eater.
I can't speak for anyone else, but here are some of my practices. They're very interrelated:
Vigilance, becoming more consciously aware of its activities - when it's causing things to happen, rather than me.
Mental Discipline - Anything practiced in the yogas, like concentration, but especially, practicing silence - i.e., attempting to turn off all thought for a
period. In the trenches of daily experience, however, the vigilant practitioner will find an opportunity in every moment to discipline themselves mentally to
recognize and resist the impulses originating from their mental predator.
Self - Inquiry: Ask your own self BTW, what do to get rid of your F.I. Crocosuarius recently made an excellent post expounding this practice in a reply to
Docta Lee about "where to start". The sage Sri Ramana Maharshi called Self-Inquiry "Atma-vicara" and the "Direct Path" of
enlightenment - a yogic alternative to the Raja, Juanani and Bahkti paths. Thus implying sincere self inquiry creates a conscious link with one's personal
spiritual essence and ultimately, the true and only Self/Atma. You can read his little book on the subject: online http://www.realization.or...e/topics/self_inquiry.htm
Don Juan discussed practical approaches briefly in Castaneda's quintessential Mud Shadows chapter in Active Side of Infinity. His main admonition was to
practice discipline - I've just discussed some of the mental practices above. One interesting approach was to cultivate one's real mind. I have
interpreted this as the act of listening to the still small voice from within and focusing on the conscious impulses that originate from the heart center. I
have worked on and made progress in this pursuit, but cannot adequately verbalize the qualities of the real mind for others, nor specific techniques. It's
a matter of working at it regularly and becoming more aware of what's there.
I think it's worth mentioning that I see , in the order of teachings which Don Juan presented in Castaneda's books, a deliberately graduated
curriculum. The very last dissertation Don Juan gave was about the Foreign Installation and in it he very explicitly stated that he was exposing the capstone
subject which all his other instructions were leading up to. Therefore, it naturally falls that all the practices he illustrated throughout the series are
practical exercises in getting rid of one's F.I.
> I am curious that in all this verbal sparring that you are doing with each other, there is not a mention of what it is you do yourselves to rid yourselves
of it.
Honestly, that's not very observant of you. It hasn't even been a month since I posted a practical dissertation entitled "Don't shoot yourself
in the foot". Croco posted that juicy one I just mentioned. So your conclusion falls from not doing your homework adequately - read more of these posts,
especially the older ones. Check out the installments of my paper "Encounters with the Foreign Installation", and other dissertations on this forum.
Also, don't knock verbal sparring as a practical method for discovering the modus opperandi of the Foreign Installation in yourself and others. This is a
very useful practice in *Stalking*! It is one which my friend J uses constantly and relentlessly. Every time I talk to him, which is usually in an email, he
minutely picks apart everything I say. Sometimes he replies me meticulous, line-by-line annotations, to illustrate his "proofs" of my own F.I.'s
constant presence and interferences. He can be downright brutal about it, or so it seems at times. But damned if after my irrational whimpering about it
subsides, it hasn't facilitated in me, substantial insights. (He's going to kick my ass if/when he sees this, and measure out for me in exact terms,
how little of his drift I've actually caught onto over the years, but oh well...there it is.)
Peace,
Toltechie