Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Fourth Way

Self Remembeing- We forget ourselves constently.
Internal considering- Allowing judgements, demands, expectations and conflict of others to effect and influence the way we feel and act and our state of mind.
external considering - Giving due to other individuals.
Acquired self = false personality
A person in normal consciousness is not truly awake...We are in one of several conscious states;Imagination (Day Dreaming)Identification (Distracted/Fixated)Considering (worried about what others are thinking)Formatory (Mechanical)
These states actually cause us to forget that we exist.We go into states of momentary consciousness when we actually examine our consciousness.
Our mind is divided into multiple entities acting independently. These entities are so well integrated, we rarely notice when control shifts.
The illusion of a single mind is further enhanced by the fact that all entities are in the same body and have the same name. Each one considers itself to be the "I". The "I's" are most noticable when they are in conflict with one another, when we have mixed fealings.We are a number of consiquences of multiple "I's".
Generally there is only one "I" in the driver seat at a time. We become one "I" after another sometimes shifting very rapidly. The constant shifting makes consintration impossible, preventing us from reaching our potential. A major goal in the fourth way is to achieve a perminent "I", Unchanging control over attention. Multiple "I's" make us inconsistant. One "I" makes a resolution and another "I" it or never even hears it.
Lesson one-
Create small aims (goals)
Try to ask your self before every action and/or thought, will this bring me closer or further from my aim.