William,
If you look for it, you may find in formal settings that there are formalities.
If we do not dismiss them -- and dismiss ourselves from the premises
simultaneously, thereby -- we may find ways to settle down and settle in. Only
then will "This" come home to us. That is my observation.
Our ways are not esoteric. Do you know what "esoteric" MEANS?
Technology is not esoteric, necessarily. ;-)
Do I gather that you have not practiced, yet?
Then, it's not helpful to make determinations such as you pretend to be making.
I say this in order to be helpful, because many practice centers and teachers
can be of definite help, with their formal ways. Use them, and go beyond them.
Drop the fork when you're done with dinner.
That is our way. But don't reject them and go nowhere. Although there's
nowhere to go. Nowhere is nowhere, you know.
And there's no way of getting around that. Unless you pick up some tools.
--Joe
> Email <brintala@...> wrote:
>
> Mike
> If your attention is focused on Right Mudra, Right Posture, Right Eye Lid
> does this constitute Right Practice. All of those details seem like
> unnecessary distractions. Rather more like an organization's secret handshake
> and password or a Tradesman's Right of passage from Apprentice through
> Journeyman to Master. Personally I have no desire to learn such esoteric
> minutiae. I am looking for what Bill! has called "just this"
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