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# Miscellaneous questions

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- Subject: Miscellaneous questions
- From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:16:09 -0000
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    Okay, some more miscellaneous questions.

    With Eight Temples, after the initial scripted meditations (the first
    eight months), is there any order one is supposed to explore the
    temples in, or can I just explore where I feel most drawn?

    With the Self-Healing Archaeous: Is the hallmark of having adequately
    mastered Lesson One the ability to sense and totally relax all of the
    respective parts of the physical body? I can go through the
    meditation without following the audio lesson (which is good, because
    I've misplaced my CD) but I hold a lot of habitual, chronic tension
    which it will take some doing to release. I am guessing that it is
    better to stay with this until I have developed a deeper state of
    relaxation through dwelling on the physical body, is this correct or
    am I making too much of this particular lesson?

    With IIH: I think I have had some conceptual difficulty with thought
    control, so let me just make sure I'm getting it right. I'm not
    trying to control anything, not even strong thoughts or feelings as
    they enter my mind. Even if a whirlwind of thoughts or feelings is
    going through my mind, that doesn't matter as long as I maintain
    detachment.

    I think what has been confusing for me is that having any mental
    contents whatsoever indicates to me that I *am* attached on some
    level. I can maintain a *surface* detachment and watch these strong
    thoughts and feelings go by, but I know that they arise because I
    *am* participating on a deeper level. I had thought that the
    hallmark of having mastered this exercise is that "only a few
    thoughts emerge in the consciousness as if from afar." But sometimes
    this doesn't happen even though I am detached on a surface level,
    sometimes there's a lot going on underneath the surface, and to my
    understanding, resolving those deeper issues is beyond the scope of
    this exercise.

    So am I correct in assuming that the goal and the mark of mastery of
    this exercise is detached awareness regardless of content, and that
    the "only a few thoughts emerge from afar" remark is merely an
    observation of what *tends* to happen when this exercise is done
    correctly, but it should not be a focus or goal, strictly speaking?

    Thanks,
    David

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