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# Re: Help for a newbie, please

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Help for a newbie, please
- From: "SeaWinder" <seawinder@...>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:13:05 -0000
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    >can't seem to still my thoughts so that I can keep just
    > one in my mind.
    >
    > Regards, Uthlagus

    Hello, Uthlagus;

    I found in my first steps at meditation that using the "chopping down
    the tree" method provided results. In that method you focus on
    thoughts that arise, identify them, and imagine an axe and chop the
    thought/image at the root. Of course at the beginning you can not
    visualize the root. But chopping it and imagining it
    dissapating/disappearing in a poof, like a small cloud evaporates with
    wind... dispels that thought for that moment. The next thought that
    arises, same thing, and after awhile you will be experiencing less and
    less introsions of thoughts and realize that it's ok to experience the
    quiet of nothingness. It's quite peaceful in fact. Then you can
    introduce just one thought and focus on it.

    Conversely you could also imagine beginning with one thought and
    imagine a drain below that thought where all other thoughts arising
    get sucked into the drain and leave.

    Another method would be to "ignore" the other thoughts, allow them to
    surface, yet actively ignore them and return over and over to the one
    thought you are purposeing to focus on.

    Either method may work for you. This is just sharing in the case that
    it may be helpful to you. In the end it is the method that you find
    for yourself that will be the winning method. For this is the process
    of you conquering yourself and each of us have differing methods and
    processes to conquer and how to conquer. The most helpful item in this
    entire process I would think is the fact that you were victorious and
    successfully conquered the practice and own in yourself the ability to
    focus on one thought.

    I wish you well,
    Chuck
    SeaWinder

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