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The synthesisFrom: Alexander Alexis
Subject: Practice
Date/Time 2007-01-20 16:02:17
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Pema,
What Barry says about synthesis is in my experience quite the point. We all are our own little planets or universes within the bigger One. Achieving that completeness is the point, however you get there. It is my tendency to want to reduce mentalness in favor of the more substantial inner reality -very much in keeping with some of the commentary on Ken Wilber's stuff, which I also find excessively mental and thus misses the point of spiritual practice.
There is that something deeper in us that prompted Laotzi to make the famous statement that the Dao you can talk about is not actually the Dao that IS. So when I write or read stuff I test it against my inner barometer which lets me know whether or not what I am writing or reading is bringing me toward the deeper thing or away from it. Inevitably, there is a point at which the explaining of things becomes too mental and thus distracts me from my beingness.
So when I personally get images etc like what you were describing originally I relax as deeply as possible so I can actually take their substance into my body as a real thing and unite them. If I can't do that I know I have reached my present limit of integration and go no further. This way I don't get caught in fantasys or illusions stemming from my imagination/mental activity, and everything gets properly grounded.
The reason I am coming back with this and going into more detail is because when I originally read your post it sounded as if you were talking as a scientist and they so easily get lost in their heads, reducing the bulk of the "iceberg" to only the "tip" they can see. I was hoping to help create a more complete thus useful view. This work has to be really sober or it wanders into escapism - and that's bad.
Blessings, Alexander
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