When one elects to go into the journey of self
growth, inner knowledge and leave the road of certainty and proven ways of
living and safety there is a refining process that inevitably takes place.
Sometimes conventions are forsaken and one has to navigate the byways and
highways of life and paths well trodden by others.
Often this is called the Quest very few guidelines
are there as one’s path is unique and one has to develop an intuition that is
not made of logic and built up of life experiences, this intuition is outside the
box of academic intelligence and is more in the realm of feeling.
Feeling can be memory and this has to be looked at
carefully as the mind can produce fools intuition which has an impulsive feel
to it and other tests which one learns on the way.
During the course of the quest some method or
discipline is embarked upon, in fact maybe several until one finds the
discipline of no discipline. In the process one refines the mind, body and all
related to the quest. One inevitably refines the nervous system and it can feel
like the body and mind is like jelly, they reverberate like a bell. The nervous system gets to be like the
spiders web, the consciousness being the spider and the slightest vibration
attracts it. At first the system reacts and is sensitive to its new found space
of living. Of course there is ego sensitivity that reacts because it has been
challenged.
As the quest continues the sensitivity is balanced
by the quietness. There is an experience when the silence is endorsed by the
ego (a certain amount of ego is required to live in the world and is very much
connected to bodily means) and the ego will jump as its new found silence is
interrupted by sudden or jarring vibrations, then when the ego can trust and
surrender to the quiet silence of the ‘no mind’ this sensitivity is not so
pronounced.
Sometimes if one is subjected to discord, violence
and sexually explicit pornography this can ‘shake the jelly’ the web, and the bell continues to reverberate for a while and one needs to smooth it out by any means that the
quest has brought one along the way and it is to be not denied, suppressed shown anger
and such like. Letting go without
judgement if possible is preferred then the seeds and roots are not there to be
cultivated again.
Radar is interesting; information comes in with a
software programme or a person to interpret the information, the dish merely
picks up data in the form of frequencies.
A person standing at a large bend in a river
without a clear view of something coming around the bend, sees a wave and
thinks is it a boat, a large fish, swimmers and the like and it turns out to be
something different a large tree blown down by the wind and being pushed by the
current. So to be quiet and acknowledge the wave and wait patiently for the
object to appear is efficacious.
The silent observer is not just an alert presence
in a silent mind; there is intelligence far beyond the rational logical mind
and its stored hardrive and software information and if trusted will guide the
observer to what is appropriate and wise.
Over sensitivity means that the ego still has a
foothold in the door and that this can cause illness and itching, irritability
and anger.
The quest then has to continue because when you
think or feel you have IT you are a million miles from IT and yet IT is who you
are.
SHACK
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