--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > Just to clarify a bit -- in calling the cause of > > > suffering "stories," I am not trying to denigrate the experience > of > > > suffering itself, which is certainly real enough -- merely > > > attempting to point out that the suffering arises from self- > created > > > mental dramas which can be unraveled with a bit of > inquiry/analysis > > > (perhaps akin to Patanjali's "yoga is control of thought-waves > of > > > the mind"). > > > > Or perhaps not. What you're talking about is > > psychology. Nothing wrong with psychology per > > se, but it's my distinct impression that isn't > > what Patanjali was into. > > > > Also, I wonder if Buddha would have agreed that > > "Life is what arises from self-created mental > > dramas which can be unraveled with a bit of > > inquiry/analysis." ;-) > > > > What you mention: akin to Patanjali's "yoga is control of thought- > waves of the mind". > > > I think would be the opposite. > From my understanding of Sanyama, is that we learn to hold pure- > consciousness(the simplest state of awareness), while we hold an > intention. > If you wish to "unravel mental dramas; I feel you must do the > opposite, of 'control'. > We are learning to 'let go' not 'control. > The whole process is to be innocent/ > By witnessing, or just watching the mental dramas, realizing we are > not the mental dramas, by witnessing or watching the feelings that > arise from these mental dramas, by witnessing or watching we > dissolve the mental dramas or any other type of drama, and what is > left, is no drama. > The drama doesn't have to be "figured out", it just needs release...
Agreed, absolutely. The BK inquiry/analysis I refer to is simply to bring an easy counter-current to the one that the mind is *habitually* involved in, *totally* sold out to as *the* Reality (which belief is the root-cause of the suffering) -- effectively dissolving it back into THAT. 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 <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
