Beware of happiness etc !

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On Tue, 08 May 2001 18:11:24

 

CyberDervish wrote:

>Beware of happiness, peace, inner contentment & compassion!

>

>More excerpts from "Mindfulness in Plain English"

>

>Just as breathing comes in stages, so do the mental states. Every breath

>has a beginning, a middle and an end. Every mental states has a birth, a

>growth and a decay. You should strive to see these stages clearly.

 

And for some it can be quite disorienting to see that the states of happiness

and sadness come and go and don't stick where they earlier stuck like glue. And

it may be disoerienting for the surroundings to observe too.

>Since mental states arise first in the unconscious, to catch the arising of

>the mental state, you've got to extend your awareness down into this

>unconscious area. That is difficult, because you can't see what is going on

>down there, at least not in the same way you see a conscious thought. But

>you can learn to get a vague sense of movement and to operate by a sort of

>mental sense of touch. This comes with practice, and the ability is another

>of the effects of the deep calm of concentration.

 

Yes, concentration and mindfulness of mindfulness will produce a thinning of the

boundary between the conscious and the subconscious

and the subconscious leak itself drop by drop into the conscious, so everything

is conscious after a while.

 

Curiouser and curiouser.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

, "mumble cat" <mumblecat@a...> wrote:

>

> Curiouser and curiouser.

>

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Yes, and if you drop the smiley at the end, that should help.

 

Judi