Re: First 3 steps- questions-experience-clarification

["Photon" <shadowphoton@...>]

LVX

Another way to put it would be dont be the catalyst or impulse of the 
thought, AND dont be the neutralizer of the thought. Your not trying 
to hold onto it, it doesnt matter if it comes or goes, how long it 
stays, or what it is about. Neither begin nor end it, but let it have 
its independant existence as you, the observer, have yours, because 
afterall you are not your thoughts, but merely put them on like a 
garment to explore knowledge with.

LVX
Frater ha-sufah

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@n...> 
wrote:
> Dear Andrej,
> 
> >> in the first step, in the mind exercise i have to observe the 
ideas,
> the mind, but i still dont know what exactly this *observe* means. 
Do i
> have to concentrate on this ideas? if not, i still must *see* them. 
And
> to see them, i need to concentrate, or not? <<
> 
> "Observe" means to watch. I compare it to sitting at a cafe and 
simply
> watching and listening the other patrons at the cafe. You sort of
> eavesdrop on the conversations happening around you but you don't
> participate in them. With the first mental exercise, you do not
> *participate* in whatever is happening within your mind and you do 
not
> *react* to whatever happens (this is a form of participation). All 
you
> do is attentively observe. :)
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 16 Dec 2004
> rawnclark@n...
> rawn@a...
> http://www.ABardonCompanion.com
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis
> http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe