Guest guest Posted March 5, 2000 Report Share Posted March 5, 2000 David Hodges wrote: > Hi Victor, > You asked for actual experiences.... > First let me ask this: Did you ever hear a nearby loud, startling > noise? If so, did you notice that the noise was registering in > awareness > BEFORE you actually "noticed" it on a conscious, reactive level? > Or if not that, did you ever notice that, say, music was playing > in the > background of a store you were shopping in and that, on some level > you > were aware of it even though you weren't paying attention to it? > Okay, so my first discovery is that there is a root level of > awareness > going on ALL THE TIME. And I discovered that this root level of > awareness > was neutral, it just happened, it wasn't in any way involved in the > "I" > thought. So I developed the working hypothesis that this Awareness is > the > true level of Being, which consciousness and thinking observe, ride > on, and > attempt to direct and control. > So my practice was this: > I would bring my attention back again and again to this root level > of > awareness. I would do this while meditating. I would do this while > driving. > While walking (this was a particularly good time) While falling > asleep. > While making love. > My inquiry was something like "Is this I AM?" I would realize that > whatever I was thinking about or feeling was not on the level of this > root > awareness and so I would refocus, even take a deep breath into it. > I did this for most of a year. I got more and more used to > aligning my > focussed attention with this root level of awareness.Then one day > something > popped. Suddenly there was not need to do the alignment because there > wasn't a separation between "my" attention and this basic awareness. > This > "pop" was not a result of an intellectual breakthrough or anything. It > just > happened one day. > This is the way I relate it to Ramana's self-inquiry. What I was > doing, > as I went through that whole process, was aligning my sense of "I AM" > away > from the separate self and more towards the field-sense of impersonal > Awareness. It's easy to do. Just notice that you are noticing. And > keep > coming back to that noticing. Keep coming back to the awareness that > you > are always Aware. > I think the reason people don't do it via this path is that it > seems too > simple. But when you actually try it the dynamics it sets up are quite > > powerful. > > Best wishes, > David Hello David, I just love to read you... I have been writing this during my dinner break, at work... Hope this bad poetry won't make you laugh. No, it is not true, simply hope the innocence in it will bring a smile, as always... Changing skin as a river, Only the presence of the sea is left. Awareness hanging on lifebuoy - The beauty of a sailing boat as the sun sets on the sea. Antoine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2000 Report Share Posted March 5, 2000 In a message dated 03/05/2000 12:11:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, carrea writes: << Hello David, I just love to read you... I have been writing this during my dinner break, at work... Hope this bad poetry won't make you laugh. No, it is not true, simply hope the innocence in it will bring a smile, as always... Changing skin as a river, Only the presence of the sea is left. Awareness hanging on lifebuoy - The beauty of a sailing boat as the sun sets on the sea. Antoine >> I agree with Antoine, David, is a joy to see you post more. Beautiful poem Antoine, and very profound thought in your next email: (going to get *g*) Until there is no rooted habit left to care or see opinion in others perspective. A perspective, Antoine Now interestingly enough, there is a habit i noticed this morning, being it is Sunday and i have time to notice the feelings of energy... when i open your emails, my kundalini fires, all the way from root to crown ... which i hadn't noticed before.. perhaps i'm rooted in habit ... i should unroot and float to sea the mermaid in me would love to see the sun trail over the sky and dance in mine eye ) Anna Maria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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