My experience with doing the work.

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Nisargadatta , " adithya_comming "

<adithya_comming wrote:

>

> Byron Katie is one of my favorite

> teachers. She teaches a very powerful

> method of thought inquiry called

> *work*! This method involves

> questioning thoughts to 'reveal' often

> 'non existing' realities behind a

> thought. This method is very effective

> in dissolving many stressful thoughts

> and in ensuring peace and harmony.

>

> < http://www.thework.com/ >

>

> < http://health.Doing-The-Work/ >

>

> < http://health.Loving-what-is/>

 

 

 

 

 

Before Ms. Katie was a gleam in her daddy's eye there was a fella

named Gurdjieff..... and he had a whole crew of folks, not the least

of whom was a gentleman named Ouspensky... and even today around the

globe there are people who practice a method initiated and expoused

by those fellows called " the Work " .....check them out. You can spend

a lifetime " observing " yourself. Ah...does Ms. Byron ever give credit

where credit is due? She is a 'looker;' though. I like her new

hairstyle. I'm sure ashe 'worked' on it as well.

 

.............bob

 

 

 

 

 

 

(nnb)

 

> However, my experience with " doing the work "

> is that it must involve following:

>

> - Full Attention to the Present

> Moment!

>

> - Clearly and Completely seeing of what

> you " feel " at this Moment!

>

> - Clearly seeing of what you are thinking

> at this Moment!

>

>

> [Then... - Ask yourself what is that I value

> Most at this Moment! ]

>

>

> - Focus on what you can truly know.

>

> - Focus on what you can truly do. ]

>

>

>

> In my experience, true inquiry can not

> happen until the " feeling " ; the

> " resistance " to the present moment is

> gone. This resistance [in every

> situation that I am aware of] is felt

> in the body.

>

> Full Attention dissolves this

> resistance. But, until this resistance

> [feeling] is gone... it keeps pulling

> attention towards itself like a

> throbbing wound. Partial attention

> [that it automatically pulls] keeps it

> alive; with full attention it is

> clearly seen and gets dissolved.

>

>

> This resistance [fragmented feeling]

> comes due to many reasons including

> Lack of Clarity [not clearly knowing

> " what " , " why " , " how " of " what to do " in

> the Present Moment]. Yet, once this

> resistance has arisen the best thing is

> to pay full attention to it and see it

> clearly. Until that has happened mere

> mental inquiry doesn't work as it stays

> on the surface but this feeling runs

> deep underneath!

>

> But, with Full Attention... not only

> 'inquiry' becomes possible; sometimes,

> the need for inquiry itself is gone as

> what was previously 'felt' as 'unease'

> gets transmuted by the Full Attention

> into Peace!

>