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Friday, January 02, 2009

Look and see.

Peering at the mind is like looking through a microscope. The heretofore unseen phenomena are brought straight up to the close-up field of vision, though there is a sense of peering across some distance.

The moving mind is a complete tempest. It is blind in its movement. Individual thoughts bubble to the surface. Lest the doubt emerge that it is but another ego-construct/game, sense how the tension no longer sticks to the sides of your head; rather, it swirls around >you< -- in a way, creating that "barrel" through which the peering happens.

It's a really draining process. Probably why it's important to conserve energy (that is, to not fritter it away on irrelevant action). Also probably why attention to afflictions to the ego is so important. It all kinda works the same way. But, with focused, intent peering within, it's much more intense.

(image bitten off of Art Ticknor's Self Discovery Portal site: image by Gregg Fletcher)

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