Re: EOM and Music Question

["ihya1347" <ihya1347@...>]

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "metaphysics0000" 
<crispinp@a...> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> In regards to the Emptiness of Mind Meditation, I was wondering how
> one goes about stopping mental music and mental videos from 
playing. 
> I can stop thought fairly easily, but I can only seem to get 
temporary
> relief from struggling to stop the song stuck in me head, and then 
EOM
> becomes more of a one-pointedness exercise -
> Any suggestions are welcome!
> Thanks All,
> M

I would suggest not "struggling" so much, but more like letting 
them go. ( sound familiar? thats cause it works! :) ) Of course 
thats easier said then done. Did you have the same problems with 
sound and pictures when you were just observing your thoughts in the 
begining? Im guessing if you did, it was less than the problems your 
having now, since ( for me anyway ) EOM isnt like smacking away all 
my thoughts, but like a combination of the first 2 exercises, being 
one pointed on nothing, and just hanging back and leting it happen 
and not geting involved like the observation of thought exercise. 
Got kinda off track here. What im trying to say is that a thought is 
a thought, and it might be that since a sound and a picture is more 
enticing to think about and ponder its harder to put aside. But the 
main key for EOM for me was practice, practice, practice, since the 
more you do it, the better you get at it. So certain things may be 
harder to get out of your head, but eventualy, with consistent 
practice, this exercise just ges easier and easier, thoughts come 
less and less, until you got it. Hope this helped.