Post by B'Lahk'Neeth on Oct 8, 2008 3:19:11 GMT -6
the i read up on terms and whatnot (that other link you gave me is PRICELESS, HP... thank you!!!!) the more i think im getting a serious handle on the "how" of the 4th way. i just need to put it more into practice. which im doing. im remember to self-remember and observe more and more each day. probably over a dozen times on average now.
which is better than half that last week and zero before that.
but on the my question... could self-remembering be extremely simply defined as maintaining an "I/MY" (as in "im watching this tv right now" or "this seat is feels great for my back", etc?) Internal Dialogue?
here's an excerpt fromt hat link that made me think of this just now:
"Considering visual impressions from the viewpoint of science, it seems they are caused by light that has been scattered off distant objects entering our eye. It is quite hard to visualise this process, but if we look past a tree at a distant house, we can imagine the house being a beacon of `house impressions', which the tree shields our eye from. As we move our head from left to right, we see different collections of these impressions. Science can measure in light the qualities of intensity, frequency, and wavelength, which correspond roughly to our qualities of brightness and colour. (Actually, light is a rather mysterious substance, seeming to behave like a particle at one moment, and like a wave at another. Light enters our eye through an organic lens, which relies on light being a wave, yet affects individual cones at the back of our eye, which relies on its energy being localised at a point, that is, light being a particle.)
At this point, we have not really started to look at impressions as food. But our consideration of the mechanics of vision has already given us material to use in our personal work. If we can remain aware that this is what it is going on when we are looking at something, we can self-remember, and avoid identifying with this external impression.
For instance, if we watch television, and remain aware of the facts that `I am looking at a man-made source of electromagnetic radiation in the corner of my room', or that `I am receiving impressions from my television', we may find that the quality of the experience alters drastically. Our ability to `enjoy' many television programs depends exclusively on whether we are attached to anything that is going on on the screen. The actual impressions may be of very little value (see later), and merely push buttons inside us, evoking the associations and feelings that are the real show, the one that's inside our head and body, (using our energy, by the way!) In fact, it is possible to consider a television show as a program in the computer sense. A set of instructions are suggested to our machine; our identification at the time is equivalent to someone typing `RUN GARBAGE.EXE', and hitting return."
here's the url if you need that in context for any reason, also:
www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1236/impressions1.html
sorry for another retardedly long post, start calling me B'Lahk'Neeth The Long-Winded lol shit!!!
which is better than half that last week and zero before that.
but on the my question... could self-remembering be extremely simply defined as maintaining an "I/MY" (as in "im watching this tv right now" or "this seat is feels great for my back", etc?) Internal Dialogue?
here's an excerpt fromt hat link that made me think of this just now:
"Considering visual impressions from the viewpoint of science, it seems they are caused by light that has been scattered off distant objects entering our eye. It is quite hard to visualise this process, but if we look past a tree at a distant house, we can imagine the house being a beacon of `house impressions', which the tree shields our eye from. As we move our head from left to right, we see different collections of these impressions. Science can measure in light the qualities of intensity, frequency, and wavelength, which correspond roughly to our qualities of brightness and colour. (Actually, light is a rather mysterious substance, seeming to behave like a particle at one moment, and like a wave at another. Light enters our eye through an organic lens, which relies on light being a wave, yet affects individual cones at the back of our eye, which relies on its energy being localised at a point, that is, light being a particle.)
At this point, we have not really started to look at impressions as food. But our consideration of the mechanics of vision has already given us material to use in our personal work. If we can remain aware that this is what it is going on when we are looking at something, we can self-remember, and avoid identifying with this external impression.
For instance, if we watch television, and remain aware of the facts that `I am looking at a man-made source of electromagnetic radiation in the corner of my room', or that `I am receiving impressions from my television', we may find that the quality of the experience alters drastically. Our ability to `enjoy' many television programs depends exclusively on whether we are attached to anything that is going on on the screen. The actual impressions may be of very little value (see later), and merely push buttons inside us, evoking the associations and feelings that are the real show, the one that's inside our head and body, (using our energy, by the way!) In fact, it is possible to consider a television show as a program in the computer sense. A set of instructions are suggested to our machine; our identification at the time is equivalent to someone typing `RUN GARBAGE.EXE', and hitting return."
here's the url if you need that in context for any reason, also:
www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1236/impressions1.html
sorry for another retardedly long post, start calling me B'Lahk'Neeth The Long-Winded lol shit!!!