Re: The first excercise

["sineadoconnorfan" <sineadoconnorfan@...>]

Hi Justin,

I think tthat's a good description. Thanks for your help.

Ardeshir

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, Justin B <devilsgoatee@y...> 
wrote:
> Hello Ardeshir!
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> Lets see if i get what your asking. Your doing the exercise of 
thought observance. You sit/lay down, relax and prepare to do the 
practice. No thoughts appear to you if you don't start them and keep 
them going? No thoughts on work, relationships, cutting the grass, 
bills, politics, pets..etc? These thoughts in a everyday life stroll 
through or pop in like a neighbor in a sitcom and leave just the 
same unless you grab hold of one and pay it attention. ALL thoughts 
are from the ether, NONE are *yours*. Based on you development and 
karma you *receive* thoughts which are of the same grade. So the 
true state of mind is pure emptiness. The exercise calls for you to 
sit and observe, akin to watching the clouds pass or a stream flow 
by. If one, two, three, fifty... thoughts roll in, observe them and 
thats it! If no thoughts come in then your mind is vacant. Just 
observe and be aware. Now as a useful side note thoughts that appear 
more than once are likely soul mirror items so thats why its
> important to recall them after the exercise.
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> Is this what your needing to know? Hope it clarifies. Bardon gives 
such amazing descriptions of the exercises, it seems like one can 
read them 20 times and get a little more out of them each time. Best 
of luck to you.
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> sineadoconnorfan <sineadoconnorfan@y...> wrote:
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> But if anyone can give me a specific clarification of my problem 
> with the first excercise I would appreciate it. My problem is 
that 
> I don't see how we can have a train of thought without being 
> actively involved in imagining it, so then I don't understand how 
we 
> can be detached from a train of thought when a train of thought 
> requires active participation in imagining it. Thanks for your 
help.
> 
> Ardeshir
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> Justin B
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