Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
All over the world and throughout history, people interested in transcending to a higher consciousness appear to do strange things. They may stay up all night next to a fire and dance to exhaustion. They may jump up and down or spin until they collapse in a trance. Some practice scarification, cutting their face or body in a specific pattern; others sit quietly for hours repeating a phrase that means nothing ( or through repetition, comes to mean nothing) Some ponder weird questions such as "Show me your face before your father and mother met,"others go on long fasts or sit inside a cave and appear to do nothing; some even hang upside-down with sticks piercing their body.
These practices jiggle the mind's barriers ---in an effort to bust through the cloud that hides the mind from a deeper perception. Most of us, most of the time, go through life 'automatically" unconsciously going through tedious routines after tedious routine, in behavior and in our thought processes.
The first step common to all attempts to transcend our ordinary consciousness is to disorganize or disruption of these ordinary routine thoughts and ways of thinking to dissolve these barriers.
Mindfulness (open monitoring) involves a deliberate attempt to "open up" one's awareness of the internal environment, allowing thoughts, feelings and sensations to arise without attending to or evaluating them. Concentrative meditation requires the restriction of awareness to a single, unchanging process such as gazing at an object or repeating a word or phrase. The object is to empty your mind of everything except the perception of the meditation's focus. People all over the world have discovered that the external world can be shut out if we concentrate long enough. Be silent, open your mind and listen with your heart.
These practices jiggle the mind's barriers ---in an effort to bust through the cloud that hides the mind from a deeper perception. Most of us, most of the time, go through life 'automatically" unconsciously going through tedious routines after tedious routine, in behavior and in our thought processes.
The first step common to all attempts to transcend our ordinary consciousness is to disorganize or disruption of these ordinary routine thoughts and ways of thinking to dissolve these barriers.
Mindfulness (open monitoring) involves a deliberate attempt to "open up" one's awareness of the internal environment, allowing thoughts, feelings and sensations to arise without attending to or evaluating them. Concentrative meditation requires the restriction of awareness to a single, unchanging process such as gazing at an object or repeating a word or phrase. The object is to empty your mind of everything except the perception of the meditation's focus. People all over the world have discovered that the external world can be shut out if we concentrate long enough. Be silent, open your mind and listen with your heart.
