undirected as the clouds in the sky (((effortlessness

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> Patricia:

> effortlesness seems to occur when there is a refusal

> of engaging in tensions. What are tensions? they can

> be so very subtle and it takes a very sensitive being

> to be able to see most of them doesn`t it?

> There is also a tremendous focus on <being> and

> somehow that seems to work hand in hand with

> effortlesness.

 

 

To be vibrantly aware is joy itself.

It is alive. It is not passive. And

yet there is no effort.

 

When the " efforting to be " falls away

being manifests of its own nature,

undirected as the clouds in the sky.

 

Who is to know where such a path may

lead... a path that disappears in the

shimmering aliveness of Now.

 

 

 

 

Bill

 

 

Nisargadatta , OConnor Patricia <gdtige

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> In a message dated 2/25/2006 1:52:45 AM Pacific

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> Nisargadatta writes:

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> OConnor Patricia <gdtige

> Re: effortlessness

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> In a message dated 2/23/2006 9:12:54 PM Pacific

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> Nisargadatta writes:

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> OConnor Patricia <gdtige

> RE: effortlessness

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> .......threading the path of least resistance.......

> <the greatest Way is voidness of opposition.>

> Did I like that..

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> It feels just right, all tensions gone and vigilance

> in place.

> I went for a huge walk in the forest, pick-up my

> favorite mushrooms, and observed that even to my own

> thoughts I don`t have to resist.

> ..Got home starving, took a chocolate chip cookie and

> a glass of milk to hold on until lunch...watched the

> clock..oh no! horror.. it says 1 o`clock, time to be

> at work!!

> What happened to time?? I used to have a terrific

> sense of it, could go without a watch for days and

> predict time pretty accurately, one of my rare

> talents..

> Jumped in the car, got on highway one...What

> the...it

> is blocked for the tour of California...delay run

> for

> about half an hour...

> So I walked to work, got there a little late..in

> hiking gear..

> and stayed w/ it, relaxed and watching. A good day

> indeed.

> Patricia

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>

> That's pretty cool. I don't wanna discourage you from

> continuing along those

> lines, cause it's fun to watch. The problem is that

> the vigilance is the

> effort expended to be effortless. This amounts to

> what

> I call duality tipping;

> the attempt to tilt the dualistic balance defined by

> the nature of experience.

> Perhaps you just demonstrated the difficulty in

> attempting this.

>

> We can create any sort of a focus we want and that

> focus aligns with a

> 'field' within consciousness. This field contains

> both

> dualistic polarities of our

> focus and we inevitably bring both into our

> experience. The focus on peace

> will bring peace for a time, followed by something

> that is decidedly not peace.

> A focus created in meditations will bring results

> because we don't always

> meditate, and the opposite of our focus will occur.

> The stronger the

> experience, the stronger the polar opposite will be

> experienced. The focus on

> effortlessness will bring just that, to be followed

> by it's opposite, such as being

> late for work and stuck on the coast highway and

> having to hike to work, making

> effort an experiential reality.

>

> Phil

>

> interesting...but am not sure that attention is part

> of consciousness.

> Watching anything coming my way, from within or

> without, doesn`t feel like a fragment of

> consciousness..but a whole undivided movement of

> attentive watching.

> ?? what d`yu think Phil?

> Patricia

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>

>

> Hmmm, I understand what you mean by " attentive

> watching " , but this attention

> doesn't 'do' anything, it has no purpose, no motive,

> not desire or goal.

> It's entirely passive and receptive, effortless, as

> you imply.

>

> I didn't use the word 'attention' because I don't see

> a focus on

> effortlessness as passive attention. It's a focus of

> consciousness which is creative

> rather than passive. A creative focus creates

> experience rather than noticing

> anything through passive attention.

>

> The trap, of course, is that, if there is no focus on

> effortlessness, effort

> occurs as a natural function of mind in the attempt to

> maintain it's

> reality. If a genuine 'attentive watching' occurs,

> this is the effortlessness that

> you seek, but the seeking of it devours the

> effortlessness. At least that's

> the trap I find myself in. How does one cause

> effortlessness to occur?

>

> Phil

>

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> effortlesness seems to occur when there is a refusal

> of engaging in tensions. What are tensions? they can

> be so very subtle and it takes a very sensitive being

> to be able to see most of them doesn`t it?

> There is also a tremendous focus on <being> and

> somehow that seems to work hand in hand with

> effortlesness.

> Do you see that?

> That is what is going on at the moment at any case...

> Happy w-end to you ,

> Patricia

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