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# Re: Awareness during 'empty mind'

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Awareness during 'empty mind'
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:18:26 -0700
- References: <20050406001524.51174.qmail@...>

    Dear Go,

    >> Since time is short before the end of this group, I need to ask for
    some help before it's too late! <<

    :) As far as the future availability of my advice is concerned, you
    will still be able to contact to me personally by visiting
    http://www.ABardonCompanion.com/Contact.html.

    >> From this perspective it would seem that I should be fully aware of
    myself sitting doing/thinking nothing - simply 'being'. But on the other
    hand I wonder if this awareness actually counts as thinking, and if it
    is therefore something I should be trying not to do? <<

    This exercise will teach you the difference between *being* and
    *thinking*. Awareness encompasses far more than just thinking and this
    exercise is meant to reveal what exists of awareness beyond the limits
    of thinking. The emptiness reveals the more essential *perceiving*
    awareness which "thinking" subsequently interprets. So the *only* thing
    you "do" in this exercise is perceive your own being. One thing you
    *don't* do, is think about the fact that you're perceiving your own
    being. ;-) But also, you're not actively warding off thoughts about
    what you're doing or not doing. Instead, *all* that you are focused
    upon is *being*. For the most part, success in this state of awareness
    is rooted in how well you have let go of your attachment to, and habit
    of, thinking. If you completely let go of the need to think and the
    habit of identifying yourself exclusively as your thoughts, and can
    completely ignore what ever transpires within your surface mind, then
    you will experience the emptiness of mind state.

    The biggest barrier to success with this exercise is our habit of
    identifying ourselves as our thinking and that barrier takes time and
    effort to surmount. So be patient. And just BE. :)

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    05 Apr 2005
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
    http://www.ABardonCompanion.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis
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