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Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 13, 2020, 1:17 am
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Dear Forum Member:
Something for you to contemplate in your secluded down-time.
Have you ever moved? Ridiculous you say? Of course you have
moved… you move all day long and even when sleeping. Let’s
investigate.
Get comfortable and close your eyes. Take a breath and relax.
Move your head slowly, just a couple of inches, to your left and
then your right. Be aware of your head as best you can. Your
mind will tell you that yes, you have moved. That’s obvious but
there is something to this that is simpler and much less
obvious.
Now the trick… move you head slowly back and forth just a little
again while you focus on what might be called your ‘point of
awareness’. Usually it is within your head just behind your
eyes. Some students label this their sense of ‘I am’. Regardless
of what you might call it, I will label it ‘awareness’ for
present purposes.
The key to success with this contemplation is separating the
sense of a head moving from the awareness that informs you that
the head is moving. You simply move your focus of attention from
the activity to what is aware of the activity. By now you have
probably realized that you are not your body and now you are
focusing on what is not your body but tells you that you have a
body. Most folks have taken that information and molded it into
the (miss) belief that the body is you.
One can see life as a passing show or one can believe in a you
who is personal involved in it. The former is much more peaceful
than the latter. Realizing this comes from continuing this
contemplation until you can stay in that stillness continuously.
Practice will stabilize it.
A little about movement:
Movement requires an opposite in order for one to know that it
occurred. It’s like the ‘Everything Is Green’ rant. If all was
movement then you would never notice it… there has to be some
kind of ‘gold standard’, its opposite in the background to
contrast against. That opposite is stillness… absolute
stillness. Its nature is obviously more subtle than movement,
but it exists… and exist everywhere and at all times, at least
in this universe/dream.
In my experience, it is as if a prime directive was handed down
by Truth. Something along the lines of ‘Let there be motion and
let it be offset by the still awareness’. Or something equally
profound sounding.
Note: Your head never really moved. It was your mind that made
it appear to move. But that’s a little advanced for our present
contemplation.
Much love and I wish you good health.
Jed.
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Parsley Date: August 13, 2020, 4:20 am
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Appreciated words: "One can see life as a passing show or one
can believe in a you who is personal involved in it. The former
is much more peaceful than the latter."
A little bit confusing to me is hearing about "your" mind. So
acc. to the question "Do I have a body?" may I ask:
Do I have a mind?
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 13, 2020, 4:28 am
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Almost any question can work, some seem to be more effective.
How about 'Who is asking this question?'. Ramana's admonition
was to ask 'Who am I'. As the Valley Girl would say, 'what....
ever'.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Parsley Date: August 13, 2020, 8:08 am
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Yes, who am I? I am somehow glad you answer with this question.
It's not about if I have a mind but if there is someone who can
have a mind. Me as a dreamt character is a product of the mind,
but who owns this mind?
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 13, 2020, 9:36 am
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Riddle me this, how can anyone own that which doesn't exist?
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Parsley Date: August 13, 2020, 1:39 pm
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Which cannot be simpler, nothing exists but ... excuse me, I've
got off the topic. Stillness exists, movement appears in the
stillness (truth). And mind is not stillness, rather war.
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: CrazyOak Date: August 13, 2020, 7:16 pm
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That was awesome. It really felt like movement layered on
stillness. Now, I'm wondering what is aware of the stillness.
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 13, 2020, 11:19 pm
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I suggest starting with ''I am''.
Love ya and stay healthy,
Jed.
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Re: Rant and contemplation: movement and stillness
By: Iam that Iam Date: August 15, 2020, 3:15 pm
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Another way to practice is paying attention to whom is
listening inside of you when you are listening to something or
in a conversation with someone, you stop paying attention out
there and put the awareness in here. Who is reading these
words?, what is looking at these words? and so on with any
activity or thought that comes across. at the beginning it is a
bit irritating because the mind wants distraction but little by
little a quiet and calm presence is felt that in the end you
want to reach at all times. It's all about being awareness. And
the key is you. That's all.
That's my practice(experience). Be Well
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