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# Re: Emptiness of Mind

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Emptiness of Mind
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:05:47 -0800
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    Dear Geoffrey,

    >> I have a question for step 1, emptiness of mind. While doing this,
    there are times when I will forget my conscious self. But I am awake
    coz I am sitting straight up, using the physical exercise of step 2,
    while doing this exercise. And things just go blank. Is this correct?
    <<

    Yes, so long as you are still *aware*. It's fairly common, at this
    stage, that you don't *remember* what transpires beyond thought (i.e.,
    you forget), but you should remain aware *during* the emptiness. In
    time, you will find that the emptiness is really quite full -- the only
    thing it is "empty" of is thought.

    As I explain (and demonstrate) in Lesson Three of the "Self-Healing
    Archaeous" audio series, the emptiness of mind state is the Fire region
    of the mental body. When you focus your awareness exclusively in this
    region through practice of the emptiness of mind, there is a direct
    perception of essential meaning which occurs beyond thought, idea, word,
    feeling, etc. It is pre-cognitive, so in order to become aware of what
    you are perceiving in that state, you must carefully return to a
    cognitive state. In the Archaeous, I recommend that you enter the
    emptiness from a one-pointedness state and then *return to
    one-pointedness* immediately after your emptiness. By entering *from*
    one-pointedness, you take your point of focus into the emptiness and it
    sets the stage, so to speak, for the direct perceptions within
    emptiness. Then, when you return to one-pointedness and examine your
    point of focus anew, the pre-cognitive direct perceptions from the
    emptiness take shape as thoughts, ideas and words. By doing this, you
    begin to build a bridge of continuous awareness between thinking
    cognition and the pre-cognitive direct perception of essential meaning
    found in the emptiness.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    06 Jan 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
    http://www.ABardonCompanion.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis

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