Re: introspection
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roark ®

07/09/2017, 18:02:40
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Happy Sunday Lesley!

Yeah, I’d say that what I am doing is different than sitting on the veranda, and is
a more concentrated event geared towards becoming completely still.  I sit motionless, close my eyes and ignore
sensory elements, and when thoughts slow down and even drop away, feelings associated
with my mental constructs do the same.  It's essentially a concentrated process of deconstruction and dropping.  My practice started with focus on specific objects, morphed over time and now has more to do with hanging out in a
wordless ‘feeling world’, so to speak.  The
residual sense is of being very free, awake, full and in the moment.   Pretty
crude, huh?   I guess call it "sitting", for lack of a better word.

I’ve been thinking about 'framing’, frames of reference that once embedded, have the deep-seated ability
to drive our experiences, and how these frames work, how they limit; and how
they may help provide needed boundaries, how assimilating new intentions can
serve to undermine existing, more self-limiting worldviews and embedded
ideas.  Vows and deeply-held beliefs,
especially those that are repeated and drilled in, flex their muscles as key drivers and powerful subliminal forces that influence outcomes and what we experience. even in 'meditation'.  

Look at the brainwashing that occurred, the words to Arti for example (you are my mother, you are my father,…..).  I think voicing that drivel in song every day, with emotion and earnestness, had a profound effect, got deep in our
bones. Not to mention all that 'satsang', the Indian Guru trip meme, etc.  No wonder that it can be pretty tough
to undo.

Meditation is obviously a word used for a multitude of different activities, some of them very
beneficial in my opinion.  Too bad that M
(never owning the copyright) may have co-opted the idea of meditation for many of us,
and extremely sad the idea of quiet concentration and 'sitting with ourselves’ got
all mixed up and polluted by association with the rest of it.

Having said that, snoozing is good, as is veranda sitting of course (if you have one, and especially with a good glass of wine, or the rum cocktails I have been making lately).

Mike







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