Re: [BardonPraxis] Just a few thoughts...

["Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>]

Dear Chenxsi,

>> When i have one-pointedness, i let the thoughts pour like hot oil
flowing rapidly into my mind. I simply relax and receive this flow of
thoughts. However, when i get into emptiness, its really quite empty,
not full of essential meaning. Absolue nothingness, no-thinking. <<

"No-thinking" is not absolute nothingness, it's merely no-thinking. The
thing is, an absence of thinking is usually perceived as an absolute
nothingness because we are so used to thinking. It can take a long time
for one to perceive what it is that fills the no-thinking state, but
that doesn't mean that it's not full. :) It's filled with
other-than-thinking.

This is why, in the Archaeous, I suggest that one follow an emptiness of
mind state with a one-pointedness so that the perceptions that fill the
emptiness state can be *indirectly* perceived as thoughts and ideas. If
you do that long enough, you will begin to directly perceive the
essential meaning that fills the emptiness state.

My best to you,
:) Rawn Clark
10 Apr 2003
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