Re: The first excercise

["sineadoconnorfan" <sineadoconnorfan@...>]

Thanks for your reply. You understood what my problem was from how I 
described it and so your suggestion is a solution, and I'm going to 
use it and see where I can get with it.

I didn't really start working on the initiation by working on all 
three levels at the same time. I just experimented with the first 
mental excercise to see how it would be. I didn't do the excercise 
correctly and it just turned into a emptiness of mind excercise 
where I was cancelling out all the thoughts that came into my head. 
It had a very relaxing result but that was the only positive of the 
excercise, I had it wrong. Thanks again for your help.

Ardeshir

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck" <seawinder@h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >how we can be detached from a train of thought 
> 
> 
> If you are able to know that you are detached from a train of 
> thought, then you are at a certain stage of development... but no 
> matter where one is one must attack personally the exercise of 
Step 
> 1. So, from where you are, emptiness of mine, with 'no' thought 
> occuring at all... ask yourself this... (when you're there, not 
here 
> and now in logicizing it all in typing)..
> 
> Just say;
> There is no thought, without my thinking of a thought.
> 
> relax and immediately listen in the silence.
> Do it a couple of times, there 'should' be a voice repeating what 
you 
> just said. Now... 'there' is a place to go to. Go to that place 
where 
> the thought was repeated. Listen to it, again and again, just let 
it 
> repeat it and anything else that it is saying. You should be able 
> tolocate some place in yourself that is making these statements.
> 
> If not, then it is entirely possible that you are not doing these 
> exercises but just thinking about doing them soon in the near 
future 
> and this is your preparation work, and you are intellicizing it. 
If 
> that is the case then that is where we are not addressing what you 
> are asking. Because we are giving you instructions in experiencing 
> it, as we are experiencing it. If you are not into experiencing it 
> but just in logicizing it then that is another matter.
> 
> Logicizing. There is a still, quiet voice within each of us. There 
is 
> a voice of our merged mind, thought, feeling, experiential 
humanity 
> past, and fantasy future. All of these are different aspects of 
> thought that are possible and we use these merged functions to 
speak 
> and think and communicate to ourselves as well as others. The 
Bardon 
> methodology is concerned with doing inside mental work in locating 
> the occuring place of each of these (and other) functions. Once 
> located they can be controlled once one has learned to apply 
oneself 
> to the basic tenents of nature. This, as well as having access to 
a 
> higher sense of virtues is all that the methodology is all about. 
> 
> So, the first Step is closing ones eyes and facing the fact that 
one 
> thinks. How does one think? Where does one think from? Follow one 
> thought and find out for yourself. For it is only in finding for 
> yourself that you know. And the prize is knowing. 
> 
> Be well,
> Chuck