Re: EOM and "forgetting oneself"

["dato1848" <dato1848@...>]

Dear Joa,

I remember once reading a comment from Rawn, where he said that we 
should learn to distinguish a *thought* from a *concern*. Your 
concern should be emptiness of mind - true. However, thought and 
concern are not the same, and thus there is no contradiction here. 
Maybe meditating on the difference between the two will help you to 
progress with the exercise? Just give it a shot. 

Yours,
David


--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@n...> 
wrote:
> Dear Joa,
> 
> >> I must confess that the "Mastery of thoughts" exercise has 
me "dazed
> and confused" :) Like you say in your great commentary upon 
Initiation
> into hermetics, this exercise involves the attainment of a vacancy 
of
> mind or an absence of thoughts. But now you say that "Ideally, you 
are
> *aware* of yourself throughout the experience, but aware without
> thinking". To me, this is a great contradiction, because if you are
> aware, evidently you are thinking. <<
> 
> This is a common misconception brought about by the fact that most 
often
> we reside totally within the surface awareness where thinking and
> awareness are seemingly inseparable. In reality though, thinking 
and
> awareness are two separate functions of the mental body. Thinking 
is
> *an aspect of* or power of awareness. The EOM exercise teaches 
you to
> separate thinking from awareness and focus entirely upon just 
awareness
> by setting aside thought.
> 
> I would suggest that the fact that you are convinced that the 
separation
> of thinking from awareness is impossible, is the reason why you 
find
> this exercise so difficult. Perhaps Lesson Three of my "Self-
Healing
> Archaeous" audio series might help you to *experientially* (as 
opposed
> to just intellectually) grasp the true nature of the mental body 
and the
> attributes, or powers, of conscious awareness. You can find the 
script
> of Lesson Three at http://www.ABardonCompanion.com/Arch03.html or
> download the audio file at
> http://www.ABardonCompanion.com/MP3-Links.html
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 19 Feb 2004
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