You have no business but abiding business (breathing work)

June 16, 2006

DO IT NOW!

http://paroissien.free.fr/ref/doitnow.htm

THE EXPLANATION:

The only practice there is is called " Abidance as the Self " or

" Dwelling in Eternal Being " or " Seeing with the Eye of God " or " keep

centered " or " Self-remembering " ...

There is a definite taste to settle as the Principle of Light and

Eternity and experience the world from here as opposed to get

scattered to the four winds of the five senses.

Ultimately the reality of the Self Shining Alone imposes itself and

the peripheral experience we call living a daily life becomes anecdotic.

THE PRACTICE:

The paragraph above IS the practice and many masters would not add any

advice to it, here we would like to add a substratum to the practice

called the " understream of the breath " ...

" Deep down in my flesh there is the cosmos flowing steadily and

peacefully, as a certainty and a novelty, it is always there as true

as the blood stream of life, but pre-exists it, we can't name it but

the closest function we have to actually know it is there is the

breath, comfortably and harmoniously I breathe this song of the

universe within, consciously i acknowledge that this stream is the

essence of my consciousness, the place where i observe from, from it

the world and life exist, breathing is the eye of my soul. "

THE PRACTICE OF PRACTICE:

Some masters will tell you that the second paragraph is already

redundant and to add a third to it is trusting very little our ability

to sustain a practice, well, here it is...

I express the physical evidence of my practice with a movement of my

body, while at the computer, as i type, my body moves somewhat

backward on inspiration (as spine straightens) and forward on

expiration, when standing with a free hand i pull air in like a rope

and pushes it out like a wall, even more unconspicuously the fist

closes tight and firm on inspiration and the hand opens on expiration,

without a free hand i raise my head slightly on inspiration (as spine

straightens).

As i walk in the street my breath goes, 1 in, 1 out, then 2 in, 2 out,

then 3-3, etc. until 15, then count down ... (you can count it with

steps), if this is too difficult just keep a simple, steady 4-4.

The understream of breath will stick to your blood, bones and thinking

after a while of practice and one of the various layers of your

thinking will impose it gently to you especially in moments of stress

and hardship where the practice is supposed to be the hardest ... well

it isn't.

A hint: the discourse imposes to the thought a pattern of one-line

process but actually thinking is the activity of several distinct

areas that act simultaneously and don't necessarily want/need to

cooperate, breathing practice harmonizes the chaos.

[the above sums up quite accurately 10 years of working on the breath]

June 16, 2006

Nisargadatta , " Eric Paroissien "

<ericparoissien wrote:

>

> DO IT NOW!

> http://paroissien.free.fr/ref/doitnow.htm

> THE EXPLANATION:

> The only practice there is is called " Abidance as the Self " or

> " Dwelling in Eternal Being " or " Seeing with the Eye of God " or " keep

> centered " or " Self-remembering " ...

> There is a definite taste to settle as the Principle of Light and

> Eternity and experience the world from here as opposed to get

> scattered to the four winds of the five senses.

> Ultimately the reality of the Self Shining Alone imposes itself and

> the peripheral experience we call living a daily life becomes anecdotic.

>

> THE PRACTICE:

> The paragraph above IS the practice and many masters would not add any

> advice to it, here we would like to add a substratum to the practice

> called the " understream of the breath " ...

> " Deep down in my flesh there is the cosmos flowing steadily and

> peacefully, as a certainty and a novelty, it is always there as true

> as the blood stream of life, but pre-exists it, we can't name it but

> the closest function we have to actually know it is there is the

> breath, comfortably and harmoniously I breathe this song of the

> universe within, consciously i acknowledge that this stream is the

> essence of my consciousness, the place where i observe from, from it

> the world and life exist, breathing is the eye of my soul. "

>

> THE PRACTICE OF PRACTICE:

> Some masters will tell you that the second paragraph is already

> redundant and to add a third to it is trusting very little our ability

> to sustain a practice, well, here it is...

> I express the physical evidence of my practice with a movement of my

> body, while at the computer, as i type, my body moves somewhat

> backward on inspiration (as spine straightens) and forward on

> expiration, when standing with a free hand i pull air in like a rope

> and pushes it out like a wall, even more unconspicuously the fist

> closes tight and firm on inspiration and the hand opens on expiration,

> without a free hand i raise my head slightly on inspiration (as spine

> straightens).

> As i walk in the street my breath goes, 1 in, 1 out, then 2 in, 2 out,

> then 3-3, etc. until 15, then count down ... (you can count it with

> steps), if this is too difficult just keep a simple, steady 4-4.

> The understream of breath will stick to your blood, bones and thinking

> after a while of practice and one of the various layers of your

> thinking will impose it gently to you especially in moments of stress

> and hardship where the practice is supposed to be the hardest ... well

> it isn't.

> A hint: the discourse imposes to the thought a pattern of one-line

> process but actually thinking is the activity of several distinct

> areas that act simultaneously and don't necessarily want/need to

> cooperate, breathing practice harmonizes the chaos.

> [the above sums up quite accurately 10 years of working on the breath]

>

Alter natively:

TEN YEARS!? Less than a blink of the eye of a nanosecond.

1-2-1-2: Way too much effort

The breath: What a distraction

June 16, 2006