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# Re: Buddhist / Bardon

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Buddhist / Bardon
- From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:43:57 -0000
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    mj,

    It has been my experience that Thought Control is exactly what you
    say vipassana is, "fully present attention on everything that arises
    in the mental field," with the aim to "see things as they are." It
    has been precisely my desire to treat the exercise as merely a
    stepping stone to greater deeds, a way of "producing specific changes
    through the use of effort and intention," that has given me great
    difficulty with this exercise that is, if anything, about thought
    observation and not control. Returning again and again to this
    exercise has taught me how to see things more clearly and with less
    attachment. I see no real difference between the techniques of
    Thought Control and vipassana other than the specification of an
    object of concentration in the latter; the apparent difference, I
    believe, is in presentation -- I think Bardon tended to describe end-
    states without detailing as much the intervening territory or the
    process, whereas Buddhism is full of detailed instruction -- and more
    in overall philosophical emphasis, as you mentioned. Either way it
    seems very valuable to me and I can understand why it is one of the
    first things in Bardon's system and a primary practice of Buddhism.

    David

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