05-23-2020, 02:06 AM
Most people reading this are familiar with the idea of the ego as a filter that blocks access to what is referred to as intelligent infinity or to some as a collective unconscious.
In my opinion, desire and control are really what blocks a person from making progress in meditation. They interfere with a silent mind, which is the aim of a true meditation.
Desire and control indicate a lack of acceptance of reality in it's undistorted form. This preference gives a person bias. Imagine how much distortion goes in to your observation of almost anything you witness because of ego.
Bias is the distortion. Duality.
This idea might seem extreme because it'd be a natural response for someone to think "I need to desire things. I need to have preferences in where I spend time and how I interact with people. I want to have control over what I encounter."
However it's my idea that these are issues that we encounter because we have physical bodies. If we did not need to fend for ourselves on the material plane, these defenses and ego-oriented biases wouldn't need to exist.
This isn't dismissing or disregarding material life to any extent. This is just how I see the mind making progress during meditation.
I've been reading about projecting dreams and there are ideas about how you should try to be aware of your immediate surroundings in them and imagine expanding your surroundings so that the effect will carry over in to life when you are awake.
In my opinion, desire and control are really what blocks a person from making progress in meditation. They interfere with a silent mind, which is the aim of a true meditation.
Desire and control indicate a lack of acceptance of reality in it's undistorted form. This preference gives a person bias. Imagine how much distortion goes in to your observation of almost anything you witness because of ego.
Bias is the distortion. Duality.
This idea might seem extreme because it'd be a natural response for someone to think "I need to desire things. I need to have preferences in where I spend time and how I interact with people. I want to have control over what I encounter."
However it's my idea that these are issues that we encounter because we have physical bodies. If we did not need to fend for ourselves on the material plane, these defenses and ego-oriented biases wouldn't need to exist.
This isn't dismissing or disregarding material life to any extent. This is just how I see the mind making progress during meditation.
I've been reading about projecting dreams and there are ideas about how you should try to be aware of your immediate surroundings in them and imagine expanding your surroundings so that the effect will carry over in to life when you are awake.