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# Re: clarity of meditation

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: clarity of meditation
- From: "Alan Cook" <fish_studios@...>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:14:53 -0000
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    Dear Dave,

    >>Hello, I'm new here. I've been studing Bardon's method's for about
    3 monthes now but some of his comments on meditation in "Introduction
    to Heremetics" are a little ambiguous. First, is "holding a single
    thought in your mind" the same as visualizing a simple object like a
    triangle or square? If not I am not sure what the second part of the
    Magical Mental Training in part I is asking? could it be more of an
    intense feeling? I know this is a hard question to awnser, any
    thoughts would be useful. <<

    First let me say welcome to BardonPraxis :)
    Holding a single thought, is a bit more general than you are making
    it. It's more of a single idea, such as thinking about the fire
    element from the Theory section of IIH. You focus only on the fire
    element, and nothing else. The idea is to keep the mind focused on
    one idea only. Not to let it go off on tangents. I'm sure you've
    had conversations with people, it even happens in some of my classes,
    that at some point you stop and say "How did we get to talking about
    peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when we were talking about Bill
    Clinton getting kicked out of office?" (This actually happened once)
    You just want to train your mind not to wander off on it's own.

    >> Also there seems to be a gradient of clarity during my meditations
    (when I am attempting part 3 of step I, the evacuation of any
    thoughts from the mind) and I have been wondering exactly what level
    of concentration is necessary for the completion of this step. <<

    >> The way Bardon states it the hermeticist must maintain state #4
    unbroken for 10 minutes or nearly so. This seems a bit difficult for
    this stage of development doesn't it? I would expect it to take 1 or
    2 years to attain that, am I doing something wrong or interpreting
    him incorrectly? <<

    Your interpretation is correct. There is to be no thought in the
    mind for ten minutes minimum, which you increase in the later steps.
    But your method may be throwing you a bit off. All of these states
    of mind are natural states. The vacany one being more natural than
    the others. We've just been training wrong since we were born ;)
    You're not wanting to block thoughts out, or push them away. You
    want to let your mind *empty* itself of thought. You want to let the
    thoughts *flow* out of your mind. If you think of your mind as a
    bubble, you have some liquid trapped inside, you want it out. You
    can try and push it all out, but when some liquid comes back it's in
    there. You want to sort of burst the bubble, let the liquid flow out
    on its own. You want to *open* your mind, not *close* it. You might
    agree that right now, the method you are using is more of a "grabbing
    hold" of you mind, than "letting go" of your mind.

    Hopefully this will help you with the Step I exercises.

    As far as pictures and visualizations for the part 2b of Step I
    mental, these are more for Step II. But I saw images of my thoughts
    all the time, but I just wouldn't concentrate on an image as
    my "idea" for that exercise. I suppose it would be alright to do so,
    but the exercise is a bit more general than that.

    Best of luck in your work.

    All Will Go Well,
    --Alan

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