funnyguy wrote:Judgements by themselves can be a reaction is what I was saying above. They're just as any other reaction or action. I don't have to act to judge nor will reactions completely disappear if I stop judging. It is just an energetic movement. It's either consciously executed or not or yes, consciously or unconsciously not executed. Just like running or walking or sitting or lying.
Aah, OK.
Yes, of course. Judgment as a reaction is the one I am trying to fill with awareness - because that is the one I see most often linked to self image. When one reacts without realizing, it's somewhat of an instinct for most people because there is not enough awareness in the whole process (like you say). And, yes, it is not a special thing that is only true for judgments.
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funnyguy wrote:Things are not very complicated at all, sorcery is not complicated at all, what makes it harder to grasp is that people try to intellectually understand it while it must be practiced.
I think/hope everyone will agree with this
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funnyguy wrote:I did not stop reacting when I suspended judgements
Something about you saying this still does not make sense to me. Because I think it has a direct link - one should notice a difference in how one reacts. I am thinking maybe it links to what you call reacting, like what you say about the lion... then it makes more sense.
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funnyguy wrote:For example I don't have to judge a lion coming towards me with the intent to kill as scary in order to immediately get on my toes. It will be an instinctive reaction on my part to do so. Reacting is not bad either, it can save your life as long as its properly setup.
Your example here makes sense
. Still, it is clear that you talk about basic survival instinct - hence I would say that it is not about acting-reacting on the layer that I am talking about, but a different one.
It is not like lying to your friend because you're protecting your self image. This kind of reaction, in the way how it works (not why), appears very similar to an instinct, but it is just something using a method that works (a method that is justifiably used for survival instinct). Something tapped into the way survival instinct works and is making use of it. It is not the same thing (one could claim protecting one's ego is also a survival instinct, but it is a different layer, and even saying this one has to admit that only certain big blows to the ego pose real danger. It would be like running away from a lion in a cage, or withdrawing one's hand from anything that is remotely warm). Telling the truth about something that might make us look bad in our opinion does not pose a real danger. If anything it might actually lead to us saving ourselves
. Being eaten by a lion does not
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(Ofc I could think of an example where lying would save one's life for real... that is then on the same level as your lion example.)
The thing about acting vs reacting is that even people who are already on the path do a lot of reacting instead of acting - talking on the layer of attention/perception now. They just allow their attention to wander (not directed by them, not in control of it) and react to whatever comes up. It is something we all did or still do, and we got great results by doing this in many cases, but it seems that the next level is to wake up from this kind of dream and way of (not)using our own attention.
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funnyguy wrote:True and yet the expression "Don't judge a book by its covers." is not out there for no reason.
Sure. This saying is basically telling us to become warriors haha.
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funnyguy wrote:I prefer acting to indulging in explanations and thoughts. Intend to see what takes/where you spend most of your energy and start cutting that off, intend to save energy. You'll see that useless things start falling out one by one. Be impeccable. Start by pretending you are if you don't know how to start.
When you start a sentence by "I prefer acting to indulging" then you don't even have to say what the indulging is in, it is clear that anything that one indulges in is the worse option and acting will win
. But, moving away from indulging in it, it is clear to me that there is a time for acting and a time for reflection. For example, it is a clear fact for me that writing about things is very valuable. It does something to the experience. It is also an action and it brings other parts of your awareness into the mix.You might find out things that will save you time. It is like layering your experience, you add another layer of awareness to something. Writing most of all, but also talking, could be that you're just writing a private diary or you might be working on things together with others using language... these things are also under 'acting' (of course if you don't have an experience that you could work with in this way then you have nothing to write about, so yes, the actual experience usually comes first then come the processing of it through language and with the other type of our awareness).
Indeed, if one indulges in explanations then the path should take him or her somewhere to stop doing that. But it does not in any way negate the fact that working with our experiences (which came out of our acting or reacting) in language can also be ' acting'. And one might find that one's language need to change quite a bit... and by changing the language one changes reality... sorcery at its purest
. Trying to express something leads to magic.
Did you ever try writing a story or a poem about your experience?
But indeed we are different types of beings. For some reason my mind jumped to the different types of men and thought the man behind the scenes, the man of action, courier and the scholar probably use language in different ways and probably have a different drive to explain/talk with others. But you might know more about this - since you are probably one of them
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