One of those days where I sort of regret not having solicited a guru at some point.
My practice is now in a spiral or cycle, and I'm not sure if I should just stay hands off and see if it deepens, or if there's an exit ramp I'm not seeing.
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Don't intend any hostility. I just have fairly specific needs, and no obvious way to meet them!
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I hope you are able to meet them soon, there's not much else to do but rely on your intuition in the meantime...
Can I ask what your practice is? And how you learned it?
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It's becoming more and more clear to me that I only understand the very core of my practice with any real precision (see: , Cutting Machinery).
Everything else is very rapidly iterated DIY, WIP, "how am I doing this and why is it working?" stuff.
That said...
My practice cut through so much of my internal chatter that I now experience frequent periods of total mental silence.
(There is still some stuff going on repeat, and some situations or conditions (insomnia, illness) that trigger more of it.)
I practice acting without thinking.
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This by noticing when my chatterbox mind is especially subdued, and deliberately doing stuff while no thoughts arise as mental content.
At first I could do it with simple motor skills. Now I can do it with e.g. conversations. I say things without knowing what they'll be, etc.
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