***TAKES A DEEP BREATH, WATCHES IT*** No smoke on that exhale....hehehe
Heya GK, whats happening brother?
Um, no sorry, I don't see the paradox? Can you point it out for me? Perhaps you should look up the meaning of the word before replying to someone as your using it out of context, I'm definately not trying to stir you up I just really fail to see what your on about.
When I said that I too have had undeniable experiances I believe that is different from an absolute way of thinking, an experiance and the way you think "I think" *winks* are two
seperate things. So then, what paradox do you speak of ?
I had a very similar way of thinking as you when I first started my spiritual journey many years ago, the first real eye opener was Hinduism, Krishna and the vedic texts, have you read the Bhagavad Gita? The vedic text "I think" holds much more credibility than Christian doctorine as the events that are explained (certain wars and erra's) can be backed up by cosmological, scientific data that todays scientists can verify.
What you fail to understand "I think" is that Hinduism is still a religion, and all religion is written somehow, someway or another by MAN, regardless of the influence be it of a higher power or intelligence or not.
Men are fallible as not one of us is perfect, not one. But what is perfect? I guess you could say "God" would be, or the thought of he/she/it?
Not everything is mind chatter, when you learn to control the mind. Can you grasp that concept?
Thankyou for the 101 on ONE specific way of meditating when there are many, many more methods depending on your individual purpose and need.
"I think" when you focus on your chakras it is a much more "potent" way to meditate as this very much rejuvinates and re-energises your Aura/etheric/subtle bodies/soul/spirit whatever label you want to give it.
When you "watch the mind" as you say all you are doing is letting your subconcious release any thoughts you may have built up from your day to day, tick tock life. Nevertheless it is a very good starting point of meditation and a very good way to learn, thankyou again for sharing it with everybody. You see, when you learn to control your mind, by similar excersises to the one you just explained you don't let
shit get into your subconcious becuase you have greater control of your Concious mind, therefor there is very little that
you let affect you and there is very little you can "watch". So from there you go into more advanced stages of meditation. The method that you explained is a very good way to see just how much your ego is controlling your mind.
I want you to know, there is and this may seem absolute, but I will say it anyway....there is your spiritual mind and your ego mind. When you learn to distinguish the two, identify which one has more control and actually start to control them, well then your on to the next step.
From Hinduism I went to Budhism, from there I went to basically anything "new age" but I must say, it is still all....written by fallible men. To really get ahead, "I think" you need to have your OWN religion. Although I really dislike using that word, but I'm sure you get what I'm trying to say.
I can comfortably say "I think" because it is not coming from my ego, it is comming from my spirit. My true self, my higher self, again, whatever you want to call it or can relate it to.
I agree with you when you say you should watch the mind, like you watch the tv, but I would basically explain it like this.... that you should try and watch your mind, from a third person's perspective and make your decisions and or judgements that way. As if you do this, from the spirit you no longer see things on or from the surface, but from a very deep spiritual point of view. Similar to the way you think when your on good weed sometimes. From a very different view point than usual.
For those of you out there that want a good religion to start with, or to get you asking the right sort of questions, go with budhism as it is based on hinduism and the vedas, but I feel it is a lot more liberal and not so confined. That is one of the reasons I very much dislike Christianity - here we have Jesuus an obvious saint or very very spiritual man, that after his death many many movements of people, churches and governments of the time twisted and manipulated his words and teachings to fit their own agenda "do it our way or your going to hell" controlling the heard with fear is very easy to do if the heard is weak minded people, and unfortunately people that are ego based and driven are very easily led astray by fear. Hell, look at 911, iraq etc.....total bullshit! For what, money ? Fuck that my friend, all religions are flawed somehow, someway...simply because they were written by men.
I suggest you start reading anything by Stuart Wilde he is a very intelligent spirit and can relate to his readers very very well.
Peace be with you all, my green thumb brothers
P.S GK, alot of what you said seems to be straight out of some Hinduism text, either you copied or it is so tainted on your mind that perhaps your being more closed than open? Just a thought, and definately no offense intended here - as we are all one
