RE: [BardonPraxis] Re: Another question - step one breathing

["lux xul" <luxxul@...>]

> From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>
> Reply-To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
> To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BardonPraxis] Re: Another question - step one breathing
> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 23:15:57 -0000

> Overall, I think I am having problems setting aside resistance to
> replacing qualities in myself. If I try to inhale peace, I find that
> a part of me is attached to staying the way I am.

Consider what would be accomplished when that "resistence" is accepted and 
comprtehended (not just understood intellectually) as a normal and expected 
*be ye unsuprised* trait of your human nature. All negative traits wish to 
remain alive and to influence. Experience it, accept it, let your 
attachment to its resistence go, give it less importance by not fighting 
it.. not validating its *control*, and do the exercise successfully all the 
while in spite of it. You can always come back to it later.

It seems to work for me this way as I encounter resistence and my 
fascination with it as well. I think it has less to do with the actual 
resistence and more to do with the attraction of that resistence to our 
inquisitive and self-examining selves. Once we reach "boredome" with it, we 
pass it by more and more consistently.

Fortuneately(? or unfortunatly) it will simply morph into a more refined, 
more subtle, less obvious reflection of our need/desire/fascination for it 
once more.

THen the work continues. :)

At least, this has been my experience.

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