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# Re: VOM and Center of Stillness Meditation?

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- Subject: Re: VOM and Center of Stillness Meditation?
- From: "Martin" <martincosgrove@...>
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 18:54:11 -0000
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    >> Have you tried simply letting go of thinking?<<

    Rawn, thanks a lot for your reply. The funniest thing happened when
    I read your message. My first 'gut' instinct was to think 'well, of
    course I've TRIED, that's the whole point, but it's not that easy'.
    Then after a few seconds a voice in my head told me to stop being
    critical; that the guy knows what he is talking about and wrote what
    he wrote for a reason. Then (and this is the part I am still having
    trouble believing), it was as if a switch was turned on (or off) in
    my head and there and then, as I sat in front of the computer, I saw
    beyond your words, the essential meaning I suppose, and I found
    myself falling into a meditative state effortlessly and for 13
    minutes I experienced a vacancy of mind; well actually, there were
    several small stray thoughts, but it was a huge leap from my past
    experiences which never lasted for more than a minute. At one point
    I felt as if my awareness was expanding, quite literally... that's
    one aspect of it that I don't think I would be able to put into
    words....

    That was yesterday. Today I listened to your CSM recording which I
    downloaded yesterday (and thank you very much for your kind offer of
    sending me the CD, but my dial up connection was having a good day
    yesterday and it didn't take too long to download). The meditation
    is great, it really helped me to relax in a way I hadn't before with
    other forms of meditation, and I believe it helped to strengthen the
    vacancy of mind. I still need to work with the VOM exercise more
    before I would feel happy moving on to the next step, but at least
    now I feel I have something I can work towards.

    I would highly recommend the Center of Stillness Meditation to
    anyone working on Step One (and probably the other steps, but I have
    no experience of those yet!) - it's something I intend to continue
    working with as a 'lead up' to my vacancy of mind meditation.

    So, Rawn, thank you again for taking the time to prepare all of your
    wonderful recordings and all of the other useful material available
    on your site (I can think of one or two people who may be fuming
    now, but I personally can see nothing wrong with expressing your
    appreciation to someone who takes the time out to answer your
    questions as thoughtfully as Rawn does.)

    Take care,

    Martin

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