A blank mind leads to either the clear apperception of the "I" thought or a mental laya which is not a good thing because its a condition of identification that superficially calms the mind but is not liberation. Once, through usually years, decades of yogic practices the vrittis of the chitta can be successfully calmed, the intellect still need that final discrimination of Self (consciousness)/self (identification) to occur.
--- On Sat, 12/27/08, yifuxero <[email protected]> wrote: > From: yifuxero <[email protected]> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditations for Bliss by Osho > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 8:06 PM > ---."Thinking of Nothing" (blank mind?)? > There's no necessary connection to Transcendence. > Dead people have > blank minds. > > In [email protected], "dan" > <hawkeye422...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > thanks i enjoyed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Meditations for Bliss > > > 　 > > > Feel Your Body as Empty > > > Suppose your passive form to be an empty room > with walls of > > skin…but inside, everything empty. This is one > of the most > > beautiful techniques. Just sit in a meditative > posture, relaxed, > alone, > > your backbone straight and the whole body relaxed ? as > if the whole > body > > is hanging on the backbone. Then close your eyes. For > a few moments > go > > on feeling relaxed, more relaxed, becoming calmer and > calmer and > calmer. > > > Do this for a few moments, just to be in tune. > And then suddenly > start > > feeling your body is just walls of skin and there is > nothing inside, > > there is no one inside, the house is vacant. Sometimes > you will feel > > thoughts passing, clouds of thoughts moving, but > don't think that > they > > belong to you.. You are not. Just think that they are > roaming in a > > vacant sky ? they don't belong to anyone, they > don't have any roots. > > > Really this is the case: thoughts are just like > clouds moving in > the > > sky. They don't have any roots and they don't > belong to the sky, > they > > simply roam in the sky. They come and they go and the > sky remains > > untouched, uninfluenced. > > > Feel that your body is just walls of skin and > there is no one > inside. > > Thoughts will still continue ? because of old habit, > old momentum, > old > > cooperation, thoughts will go on coming. But just > think that they > are > > rootless clouds moving in space ? they don't > belong to you, they > don't > > belong to anybody else. There is no one to whom they > can belong ? > you > > are empty. It will be difficult, but because of the > old habits, > nothing > > else. Your mind would like to catch some thought, be > identified > with it, > > move with it, enjoy it, indulge in it. > > > Resist! > > > Just say there is no one to indulge, there is no > one to fight, > there > > is no one to do anything with this thought.Within a > few days, a few > > weeks, thoughts will slow down, they will become less > and less. The > > clouds will start disappearing, or, even if they come, > there will be > > great gaps of cloudless sky when there will be no > thought. > > > One thought will pass. Then another will not come > for a period. > Then > > another will come and then there will again be an > interval. In those > > intervals you will know for the first time what > emptiness is. And > the > > very glimpse of it will fill you with such deep bliss > you cannot > > imagine. > > > Think of Nothing > > > Thinking, you are separated from existence. > Thinking is not a > > relation, it is not a bridge, it is not a > communication ? it is a > > barrier. Non-thinking you are related, bridged; you > are in > communion. > > When you are talking to someone, you are not related. > The very talk > > becomes a barrier. The more you talk, the further away > you move.. > If you > > are with someone in silence, you are related. If the > silence is > really > > deep and there are no thoughts in your mind and both > the minds are > > totally silent, you are one. > > > Whenever you are silent with someone, you are > one. > > > When you are silent with existence, you are one > with it. > > > This technique says be silent with existence and > then you will > know > > what God is. There is only one dialogue with existence > and that is > in > > silence. If you talk with existence, you miss. Then > you are > enveloped in > > your own thoughts. > > > Try this as an experiment. Try it with anything > even with a > rock. > > Be silent with it take it in your hand and be > silent and there > > will be a communion. You will move deep into the rock > and the rock > will > > move deep into you. > > > Your secrets will be revealed to the rock and the > rock will > reveal its > > secrets to you. But you cannot use language with it. > The rock > doesn't > > know any language.Confined in thoughts you will be in > misery. > > Unconfined, beyond thoughts alert, conscious, > aware, but unclouded > > by thoughts you will be joy, you will be bliss. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [email protected] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
