"Thought ending thought". Thought dying by thought". I've never could understand that part. How can thought die by thought? :)
Now I do.
One has to read the books, all the books, until the goo is overflowing :) And it disappears in an instant, cause it's all just thought, not the essence.
Thought dies by thought! Phew! :)
If you don't know anything about anything, what are "you" actually "trying"?
If you don't know, then simply just be honest with yourself and see that you DON'T really KNOW anything about anything!
To know completely nothing, it's the greatest thing that can happen to you.
A camel cannot go through the eye of a needle.
UP means being completely still and silent, without trying ANYTHING at all, not having any idea about anything or knowing anything about anything, or counting on anything at all.
That emptiness is filled by the Universe at the same time, because there is only the Universe. "The Universe works in Itself", using Meister Eckhart's funny language.
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a
: of or relating to a unit
b
: based on or characterized by unity or units
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: having the character of a unit : UNDIVIDED, WHOLE
The attempt is the whole, at once, at the beginning. What does "whole" mean? It means it's ALREADY DONE. It's not in the future! You wake up in True Life (the realization that energy is already in unity).
There is nothing that is outside of it, out of it. UP = Sunya/ True Life.
There is only this undivided, whole Attempt, one movement without a division into a doer and doing. "One hand clapping".
If there is only one whole movement, and nothing outside of it, any concentrated/ directed effort is a denial of it (hypnosis, imagination, illusion). That is the only problem, "hypnosis" and "concentration" is the same, it's the old paradigm.
The paradigms are NOT complementary, they do not overlap. Intelligence can indirectly make the old paradigm, memory, etc, work more optimally with what it is functionally useful for. But the new paradigm REPLACES the old one. And it must, because the old paradigm has a great momentum, so the new paradigm (the most important "thing" in life) requires all energy and complete priority (otherwise it's back in the black hole of hypnosis).
It's that what is most simple. The attempt is True Life. True Life is making the attempt.
B: The way I see it, there is a change. I would say that thought is "crippled" in UP. In UP there are no products of thought like the thinker, time, duality, effort, direction, choice, right? Thought in C is direction, choice, etc.
The little energy of thought/"meaning" dissolves in the Wholeness of UP.
The focused/ directional Known is BOUND to dissolve in the Unknown. Cannot survive!
IF that was so, these two (C - the focused perception and B - the unfocused perception) would not be really complementary, but rather exclusive.. How can UNFOCUSED hold the FOCUSED?
How can the Unknown hold the Known/ the "meaning"? If it held the known and understood it, would it be really the Unknown?
Thought (of the Anterior brain) can function either as a substitute or complement of the Energy (in the Posterior brain).
I'm not sure it's the complement..
They're of two different dimensions, characterized by different laws!
A: They work together, complementing each other, it's a fact. But you won't arrive at the fact by rationalizing and comparing words with words
B: I am not doing just that. In UP thoughts come and go freely, "pizza", "bananas", "potatoes", images. If they are being processed, it's already hypnosis...
Absolute time is one of the laws of C but is it possible NOT to THINK in terms of TIME at all?
OR.. all thought is (psychological) time and (psychologcal) time is thought?
.. In other words: is the thought enveloped in B the same 'full-fledged" thought as in C (i.e. involving time, duality, incoherence, hypnosis, concentration, egotism, etc.) or is it DIFFERENT?
If it's DIFFERENT, how does the "change" happen in B? But if it's the SAME, how could B hold C and not be itself of time?
"Enveloping C in B" would mean that the Unknown can understand the meaning of the Known and REMAIN the Unknown..
But can thought REALLY survive the Unknown, the Present, the Reality?
