--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience, as I had mentioned in past post, on the "Pain > Body" one can get a sense of where tension is held in the body, and > allow the attention, to just remain there, shining the "light of > consciousness", there, so that it "shifts". > > Also, on the level of the ego, you can witness, that which you feel > is your "self", focus on the ego... > > Now, when you allow your awareness to be with the ego, the point of > reference, which is usually looking and seeking outward, suddenly > switch to inward; > Have the ego look inward, which is totally the opposite to what the > ego does; it's always seeking outside itself. > Now, what does the ego percieve when it looks within? > It cannot absorb the pure self within, so it starts to merge and > dissolve in that equation. > > Then one starts to detach from the ego as the main "reference > Point" of awareness, and begins to trust what one intuitively knows > is a field of greater intelligence, though less defined, merged as > a feeling of awareness within.
Just after reading this, I browsed another board that gives you a "quote of the day" when you logout. This was it. Remarkably apt, thought I... "Vanquish your self-pity right now," he demanded. "Vanquish the idea that you are hurt and what do you have as the irreducible residue?" -- Carlos Castaneda, The Active Side of Infinity ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
