2/ Our short term memory can hold up to four objects at a time. Think of them as four doors, or four inputs.
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13/ We feel the need to relate everything to a self, which we maintain by feeding it back as a filter for every experience.
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14/ "Come off it" and "Let go of yourself" is actually Sounder advice than therapy sessions/psychology practice that don't treat the cause.
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15/ There is in fact no permanent self, just the illusion of it being so. That illusion is also traditionally referred to as the ego.
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16/ We create and recreate a self in each moment. The illusion of permanence owes to 1) identification with thought 2) recycled thoughts.
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17/ Those thoughts we recycle the most we identify with the most. Those are what we come to call "I", but it's not fixed, it's a loop.
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18/ Going back to the doors example. When you break this cycle you essentially free inputs for your mind to witness itself in the present.
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19/ You free up the inputs from the pattern of recycling past into present, and projecting it into the future. You stop creating a 'self'.
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20/ You start feeling a space, and in that space you feel yourself being, without any need to define your being with thought. You simply are
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21/ That is why all meditation practices insist on letting go of thoughts. They are there, but in the background, no input, no influence.
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22/ There are endless methods of meditation but they all essentially aim to disrupt this conditioned mind that feeds back on itself.
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23/ Some break the mind through the mind others go through the body, but the essence is to get you out of your mind and back to your senses.
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24/ In that space you realize you always were this and never anything else. You were just hallucinating. Once you see it you'll laugh at it.
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25/ Meanwhile the mind remains free & engaged w/ the present, holding on to nothing yet naturally & without interference running on full HP.
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26/ Not only are you able to think & conceptualize, but are more so than before. You keep the inputs available, and the mind does the rest.
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27/ The 'self' is a conditioned pattern. You are a process, a living organism. But when the mind is in a loop you cannot experience this.
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28/ It's one of the most difficult tasks to consciously become aware of and break free of this conditioned pattern. But it can be done.
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29/ Not only can it be done but it must be done. If not, we remain imprisoned by this condition and can't live out our true human potential.
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30/ All life, truth and possibility lie beyond this conditioned mind. The mind is infinitely capable, we've destroyed it with playing 'me'.
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31/ The tendency is to return to it for a semblance of security until we realize it's not real, never was, and is actually mental illness.
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32/ Remember, feedbacks will inevitably occur. And these feedbacks are avoidable if you become aware & understand your mind. The end
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