Re: small question

["JoePass" <jcanslim@...>]

Rawn....concerning this "deeper meditation," should a person finish 
Step 1 before meditating upon a subject like this? Or am I being too 
anal? And, if it is efficacious to begin this meditation now, can 
you direct me to some material that will instruct me?

Thanks....

John




--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@n...> 
wrote:
> Dear Louis,
> 
> >> I have this strange aversion to meditating on anything because I 
am
> afraid that I will convince myself that something is true through 
the
> faculties of the mind; deluding myself actually. I like the 
conjecture
> because it helps me look at things through different angles. <<
> 
> Well, conjecture (i.e., thinking about something from as many 
angles as
> you can) *is* a very valid form of "meditation". :)
> 
> At some point however, you will have to confront and make peace with
> this fear you that associate with deeper forms of meditation: i.e.,
> meditations that involve directly opening yourself to non-rational 
or
> non-intellectual sources of insight. One way to do this is to 
approach
> such insights very critically, question them exhaustively and do not
> accept them as *fact* or valid *until* you have verified them. 
Through
> that process you will come to know *experientially* which insights 
you
> *can* trust and this will build your trust in the process itself.
> 
> >> I just read the short glib that bardon has in IIH
> about Akasha at the begining. Getting away from the
> something and nothing going into the bag. I Just got
> a mental idea that you cannot quantify something that
> is incomprehensable. Accumulation is to quantify in
> some regard.
> If this is true, then how does it fit into
> "...Inhaling the akasha...filling the whole body with
> it." <<
> 
> What you are inhaling and filling the body with is the *feeling* of
> "being united to the entire infinite space", along with an
> "ultra-violet, near black-violet colour". In effect, you are 
merging
> your body and your conscious awareness *with* the Akasha, *through* 
the
> inhalation of its primary qualities.
> 
> Once united with the Akasha in this way, you will immediately 
understand
> why the Akasha cannot be dynamically accumulated. To dynamically
> accumulate something means that you are confining it, penning in the
> explosive pressure of its dense power. But the Akasha penetrates
> *everything* -- how then, can you confine it?
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 31 Aug 2004
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