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    #21436922 - 03/20/15 06:30 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

I woke up this morning in a bit of anxiety as my alarm sharply cut through my dream to command my conscious attention by force. I reached over the side of my bed and fumbled up and down until my fingers touched the phone.

*click*

I lay in bed for a few minutes, savoring the luxurious warmth of my blankets and reflecting on the dream I just had--the people who appeared in it, what their presence in the dream signifies, and the movement of energy in my psyche that had taken place overnight. I debated with myself over whether to get up or not, weighing the pros and cons. Finally, I made the commitment to stand up. The clock read 5:34, meaning I could likely complete a satisfactory meditation sitting before my upstairs neighbors got up and started making noise.

Even if I didn't have that extra incentive to wake up early, I'd still prefer to. The sun has yet to rise and a soft, peaceful stillness pervades in both my external and internal world. Things are much simpler at 5:30 in the morning before the fear-driven pace of society overtakes the rhythm of nature, where I am subtly and not-so-subtly bombarded by the purported necessity of worry, stress, and callousness.

I head downstairs with a gentle sense of excitement and momentum. Fortunately, my sense of ease is soon shook by an intrusive thought that came to me while brushing my teeth.

An intrusive thought is "an unwelcome involuntary thought, image, or unpleasant idea that may become an obsession, is upsetting or distressing, and can feel difficult to manage or eliminate." This thought was blatantly blasphemous, provoking me to quickly judge myself which in turn opened the floodgates for an onset of guilt and shame to surface in my chest and stomach.

As I began walking upstairs, I had another intrusive thought, this one arguably more disrespectful than the first. As the weight of judgment began accumulating, I decided to do something different.

Instead of rejecting these thoughts and judging myself for their appearance, I decided to accept them.

I said to myself, in a frank and unassuming manner, "I can't stop these thoughts so I may as well accept them."

I immediately saw clearly the irrationality of rejecting something within me that I have no control over. The waves of shame, guilt, and self-rejection quickly began to recede and a small but wonderfully significant sense of peace and ease tenderly bloomed.

Back in my room, I lit a candle for vision, ritual, and atmosphere. As I set my assan down on the ground, I saw I had yet to make my bed, a concern I definitely was not going to leave open during my meditation.

While making my bed, I noticed an object nestled on top of the blanket in the corner. I reached out to grab it and my open hand hit an abrupt wall. What I had just reached for was my shadow.

Affirming my recently intuited persuasion, I thought to myself that for the third time in the 10 minutes since I'd got up that I had unsuccessfully tried to clutch a shadow.

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Re: Letting darkness be [Re: NastyDHL]
    #21437117 - 03/20/15 07:17 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

In my own life, I have found few things as transforming as the dharma talks of tara brach, gil fronsdal and thich nhat hanh. . as well as auto-suggestion. . besides mantras and other things, writing positive messages to oneself in cursive on paper, such as "I am strong," "I am healthy," "I am at peace," helps in literally any endeavor. . by practicing sending energy down entirely positive, healing channels, it helps greatly to unify one's energy, and this opens up new vistas. . then, any endeavor becomes much easier, calming the mind, or anything at all. 

The first place I probably read about the importance of being unified was from The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), as she mentioned it, in "Powers Within," an extremely lovely, and very potent (very condensed and potent) spiritual book.  (Selections from her and Sri Aurobindo).  Another one is Swami Vivekananda. . he lived a little earlier actually, though they overlap - a similar book is Living at the Source, selections of his writings - and an invaluable treatise on Advaita Vedanta, and a lot of other wonderful things. .

I developed this practice (of writing down such messages) precisely because of what you mention - the stuff in society.  So many suggestions and formations floating around out there - very few of them which have anything to do with who we really are!  This practice really works - also, the 4th chapter of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience - "The religion of healthy mindedness" is also a very, very nice discourse on the subject of mind-body connection and the benefits of healthy thinking.

All the best to you and Peace and Love :sun:

Do and share what works!  :smile:

Also - agreed with the idea of letting darkness be.  And, Thay and Tara  focus on these a fair amount - Hanh shares the practice of embracing anger with love - as he says, "take good care of it," and Tara on befriending and attending to difficult emotions, or radical acceptance; pretty much the same thing. 



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Re: Letting darkness be [Re: once in a lifetime]
    #21437157 - 03/20/15 07:26 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

Holy shit.. Where do you guys get your weed?

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Re: Letting darkness be [Re: NastyDHL]
    #21439140 - 03/21/15 11:37 AM (9 years, 1 month ago)

I can relate to what you say OP. So the adage says, "what you resist, persists." Denying darkness does nothing but allow it to fester and grow stronger. It has to be transformed by shining a light on it, accepting it and letting go. In fact this process pretty much sums up meditation and the spiritual path. The process of increasingly being able to maintain awareness, to recognise thoughts as they enter the mind, and to not attach to any of it, "good" or "bad". :smile:

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Re: Letting darkness be [Re: NastyDHL]
    #21439269 - 03/21/15 12:08 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

I responded to another thread before started by someone who said he was being persecuted by 'intrusive thoughts' and this brought on his 'OCD'. If he responds I will gladly share this experience of yours with him. it is what I also encouraged

Your experience is of the same ilk as what can happen in psychedelic experience when 'traumatic visions come' and the same as you suggest needs to be encouraged when that happens--open acceptance instead of fighting them

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Re: Letting darkness be [Re: NastyDHL]
    #21443969 - 03/22/15 05:45 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

Practicing acceptance causes guilt and frustration too. There is an inherent resistance in trying to accept things and when you fail, which you most certainly will, you'll feel bad.  It's best to just accept that acceptance is out of your hands. Don't try to do this, Just know that it is a fact that you are not the doer, you'll feel better.

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