--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On the old TM list, Jonothan Levy used to talk > > > > about how the mind works in ever-widening > > circles > > > > to maintain its dominance. It figures out that > > it > > > > is incapable of comprehending Brahman, but then > > it > > > > struts around proclaiming how smart it is to > > have > > > > made that discovery. Next it realizes that as > > long > > > > as it keeps strutting, Brahman remains out of > > reach. > > > > And then it proclaims itself a genius for having > > > > made *that* discovery. And so on...it's turtles > > > > all the way down. > > > > > > Gangaji talks alot about this. She says that in > > some > > > Zen schools it is called "the stink of > > enlightenment". > > > > > that's what I love about FFL, discovering a process > > that I have > > chanced upon independently being openly discussed. > > > > My personal technique for this 'stickiness' (I call > > it pride) of the > > ego or the mind to ever increasing revelations about > > enlightenment, > > is to first tell it to STFU, and then I go blank so > > it can't find > > itself. > > > > Works well, because the mind untethered then forgets > > it had > > identified with the previous revelation and moves on > > to other things. > > Like someone with ADD (or ADHD). Take them off-track > for a few seconds and they can't remember what they > were doing before. Another process is to let the pride > come in fully and completely and allow the energy to > flow freely through the body. Now it's simply a bodily > experience and has no meaning for the mind to attach > to. > cool. I'll try that too! Thanks.
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