Oh yes you can. I am doing it every day several times. Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
-----Original Message----- From: fearlessinquirer <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 08:38:42 To: Advaita-Zen<[email protected]> Subject: Re: The biggest 'spiritual' effort You cannot watch the I am sense. You can only be the I am sense but in the being mind is not. Where there's no mind everything is effortless. Bring mind into the I am sense and dissolve it there. On Sep 6, 11:14 am, [email protected] wrote: > The effort to keep watching the I am sense and ignoring thoughts while > watching is required but this effort arises spontaneously. The mind, at some > point discovers by itself that it feels better while watching itself aka > slowing itself down. > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fearlessinquirer <[email protected]> > > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:28:08 > To: Advaita-Zen<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: The biggest 'spiritual' effort > > As your heart beats effortlessly, so is the spiritual path. > Spirituality is the whole dissolution of effort. Effort implies > conflict. (You are here now but mind says this is meaningless; meaning > is in that, not this, and so one employs the vehicle of effort to > shift from this to that …and from that one shifts again ….endless > shifting and never arriving) > > In the physical world effort is necessary but spiritually, effort is > not necessary or maybe necessary until you’ve come to realize that it > is unnecessary. There’s spirituality only when will/desire/effort is > not. > > On Sep 6, 7:32 am, [email protected] wrote: > > is not to get hooked by thoughts. If you achieve that you've done your job. > > Your present situation as well as your goals are made of thoughts. > > I, for example, have to detach myself from this thoughts I've just written. > > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
