Three flows or
three aspects of
the same flow
occur
naturally or
automatically -
peace, joy, and love.
But our mental activities,
especially verbalisation and
conceptualisation and
hyperrealism,
affect the flows,
or better,
their impact on us,
physically and mentally.
Take any situation of
extreme pleasure or
extreme pain.
Usually emotional thinking
pauses
while the situation is
either savoured, or
it overwhelms you,
physically and/or mentally.
The intensity
of the experience
reduces as
meta thinking or
reflective thinking -
essentially I-me-my thoughts,
judgemental thoughts,
comparative and
analytical thoughts - return.
Similarly will reduce its
purity,
simplicity, and
lack of mental weight
(from storing and
processing).
What if such
outer/outward
physical or mental situations
are not needed
to shift down
to simple feeling
alone
from the usual
simple feeling plus
thinking?
Feeling is much more
basic, physical.
From your sensors to
brain cortexes,
just until
verbalising and/or
conceptualising -
ideas, thoughts, words -
start.
How to stay with
simple feeling?
Train the mind and brain,
through dissociative meditation,
to let go.
One way,
as in Heartfulness [1],
is to stay with
something beyond
all concepts and
words and
thoughts,
something infinite,
yet something which
cannot be an object -
light without luminosity,
light without light. [2]
So are
Zen Koans -
riddles
which tire out and
shut down
thinking.
Or
Ramana Maharshi's
Who am I,
or better,
what is the "I"
to subtler and subtler levels,
until, again, thinking stops.
Or any other spiritual practice
that draws your attention
to subtler and subtler levels and
overwhelms it completely
at each level
so that thinking stops.
All thinking?
No, just
unnecessary thinking,
energy-sapping, wasteful
thinking.
And emoting.
The egoic activity is
natural and necessary
for living.
But thriving -
conscious peace, joy, love -
recurs (from babyhood)
when egoic activity is
minimal.
Obviously,
the layers and layers
of mental activities
on top of the frenetic I-ing
don't help either.
Let go of them too.
Heartfulness Cleaning
accelerates [3] removal of
stored, frozen residues
of past hyper egoic and
judgemental activities.
How?
Again "you" step aside
while "unwinding" occurs.
This unwinding
may be felt as
lightening,
freeing,
simplifying and/or
purifying.
Or visually,
your present condition
of thick dark smoke
dissipating or lightening.
Then the Heartfulness prayer
helps your ego to
synchronise and co-operate with
and surrender to
the source of
your own
light without luminosity,
your own
life.
In sum, there are
natural
flows and activities.
Then there are
man-made
activities
which layer,
distort, or
block/freeze
those natural flows.
Reduce these
man-made activities
to minimum,
if not to zero.
Then
the natural flows
continue
freely.
Then your
natural evolution
resumes.
NOTES
[1] Heartfulness meditation is
both dissociative and
associative. Associating with
the heart, with the light in the heart, and
dissociating from
thoughts,
emotions, and
physical sensations
not at the heart.
[2] Then you allow
an infinitely
subtler,
gentler,
loving,
attracting
entity
to draw the "you"
towards it.
[3] All human activities,
not just Heartfulness cleaning or
other spiritual practices,
have an
unwinding or
undoing
effect.
Usually, though, further
winding and knotting
occur with
continued
I-ing overactivity.
