One incredible concept I’ve applied to myself since I was young is my ability to question myself, all my beliefs and my perceptions on life or being alive. To have this ability and retain no hatred or bias is difficult if not impossible; this is especially true of religion. For example, many atheists can be offensively fatuous in regard to religion – an antithetical extremism somewhat militant in nature. Many religious people can be abrasively snobbish in the same way. I say don’t hate anyone for their beliefs or belittle them.
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I discussed in a recent post of mine entitled “Beyond Thought” about a rarely comprehended concept known as “detachment“. Please click on the link an read the wiki as it may help those of you unfamiliar with it. I have been fascinated with this concept for over 25 years and all the ways it defies logic.
First of all if you think you understand this concept then I can say with certainty you do not. It cannot be understood. It is not logical or governed by laws of physics. Do I understand it? You cannot understand something that doesn’t exist. Think about this: A state of mind is an intangible multi-layered personal feeling, or experience. Can a “state of mind” be understood Sure it can. We can all relate to that. We communicate to others all the time an unbelievably complex conveyance of a vibe or expression of dynamic moods, etc. Hand gestures, tone of voice, attitude and unsaid clusters of vibes are used all the time in daily life. We often take the complex nature of this sort of endlessly dynamic human flux for granted. Hidden in all of life’s normalcy is where the real discoveries of revelation dwell. Beyond all we don’t see and know is where I am madly destined. I’m not saying this like I am interested in the paranormal or mysteries from beyond. I had a friend once said, ‘I know exactly what you mean, it’s like some evil secret from beyond the grave like on The Twilight Zone.”
No, no, no. He is was so far off base that it would be impossible for him to grasp. Before you think about what I mean, please don’t. Just consider this. I’ll write a description of a state of mind to help not show you what doesn’t exist so that we can transcend a detached mind state into endless and magical depths of nothingness. Here we go:
“One afternoon I was driving on an extremely busy four lane highway during Christmas traffic while on the phone in a serious conversation with a former employer. Subconsciously I studied about twenty separate situations; some dealing with traffic, some with a song on the radio, etc, etc, hearing tiny slices of passing conversations and so on. I fully realized my absolute detachment from all and understood this is why I could study each situation in detail – simultaneously. I analyzed how I was doing this like I was a third party writing a report on this person in a kind of “overview” mode. There was my over-viewer, my under-viewer, etc. I saw a through a dozen viewpoints upon my situation. All the while psychological wisp’s of streamed consciousness echoed many revelations in thick layers each with their own complete selves. All the while, still driving and on the phone. Sometimes a passing feeling could encompass all the above as an exhalation enwrapped unto itself. A thousand deep cognitions still as I became each moment.”
Do you see how complex all these things occurring in this little story are? I’m sure a lot of you have experienced something like this. You may do it everyday. This might be why so many intelligent people blog. I think blogging is an education at all times. I don’t learn something because it’s on a test or because I am being paid to. I learn because I love to learn. This type of attitude is very conducive to acquiring a logic defying detached state of consciousness.
Ask your self this question. “Am I aware of what I think about while thinking, and why I am thinking this way?” or “Do I pay attention to and monitor my every thought?
Try as a daily mind exercise to see yourself as a narrating observer. If you catch yourself thinking in circles about some friend, situation or scenario – stop and write it down on a note pad with time periods. For one week, keep a little note log of your thoughts in high detail. If you brooded for six hours about why it should have been you who married that beautiful Thai girl on your street and not your best friend- write it down. This is the first step to mastery of your thoughts. Once you are dynamically aware of all thoughts as they happen it becomes automatic. You just “are aware” and it goes on auto pilot. Like a hardened war veteran hunting his enemy, he automatically pays super attention at all times.
Now- thoughts are much too complex to be described with words only. You have feelings, emotions and perpetually changing variables involved in thought at all times. For fun we’ll call it a dynamic cognition cluster or DCC. The state of mind story from earlier was filled with DCC. For computer heads out there it is like organic XML for your mind. Those intangibles of consciousness that must be described in a “macro” point of view. I hope you can wrap your head around all this. This may sound like psychology but it isn’t. If we can gain a detached mental state that sort of unconsciously self navigates composed of a moving carpet of macro cluster packages then the beginning of this trip can start. We’re not trying to do a million things at once or think real hard. We are simply not thinking. We are doing nothing. We are not trying to not think. We just want to become aware of all this so we can forget about it all and JUST BE.
Inside the mind of man is his own prison, a prison of designed perfection which existed long before eternity. You are your prison and trying to escape is what keeps you in.
This is just the beginning of a series of articles. I promise if you stay with me you’ll be well rewarded with something incredible. Just be patient and trust me.
