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# Re: What Is a Thought?

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- To: <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] What Is a Thought?
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:09:54 -0700
- References: <ck8fpe+9qkg@eGroups.com>

    Dear Tony,

    >> This is actually a practical question regarding Step 1, Mastery of
    Thoughts. I can sit for 5 minutes and have 6-8 thoughts. Typically these
    thoughts will be sentence like "be vigilant!" or "the trick is not to
    follow the thought" i.e. comments or self-questions on my progress. Lots
    of background noise pops up - voices, words, random images, the
    occasional memory. I figure if I quash these and don't pursue them, they
    don't count as a thought, so I don't count them on my beads. So if an
    image of an eye (or anything) spontaneously pops into my consciousness,
    and I dismiss it, I don't count it. In fact I count only memories I
    pursue or sentences I let complete (and some of them are pretty fast) as
    thoughts. Is this acceptable, or should I be striving for complete
    blankness, with nothing emerging spontaneously? Is this even possible?
    <<

    The focus of this exercise is upon the quiet, not upon controlling the
    noise, and this is what distinguishes it from the first and second
    exercises. If there is still noise that takes your focus away from the
    quiet vacancy, then it means you need to better master the previous two
    exercises. The goal of the first exercise is mastery of your ability to
    disengage from the noise and the goal of the second exercise is mastery
    of your ability to focus your mind upon a single thought while
    disengaged from all background noise. So by the time you reach the
    third exercise, you should have already mastered your ability to
    disengage from the noise and to focus your intentional thoughts. This
    sets the stage for the third exercise in which you are focusing yourself
    completely upon a vacancy and upon true quietness of mind.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    11 Oct 2004
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
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