tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post532831826120361847..comments2023-04-24T08:22:01.715-07:00Comments on Amritayana Buddhism: Burning Away Karmaic Seeds from the Subconscious MindWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post-81119229458941726182009-09-29T18:34:05.933-07:002009-09-29T18:34:05.933-07:00Dear Deb, thank you for your post. Our natural min...Dear Deb, thank you for your post. Our natural mind or true nature is radiant awareness. Chogyam Trunpa called it "panoramic awareness". It is like a vast sky that can have a lot of clouds floating within it. When we are enmeshed in a thought or emotion, it is like the sky awareness gets narrowed down and only notices the thought and/or emotion. It is also invested in trying to do something with the thought and/or emotion. It cannot merely look at, accept it, and be with it. There is an investment is resisting what is present, a subtle fight going on, a trying to be happy, rather than being with whatever is. This subtle aggression keeps us enmeshed in an emotion. Paradoxically, it keeps us stuck in the emotion. It makes the emotion feel solid, dense, and heavy inside us. Our usual state of consciousness is to be enmeshed in everything that is happening, with our ego struggling with all our experience, constantly clinging and wanting to hold on to some things, and constantly trying to push away and not feel other things, and feeling other things as part of its identity. So we are already enmeshed in phenomena and identified with certain phenomena as defining who we are and associating certain thoughts and emotions as part of our identity, what we believe and feel ourselves to be. This is how we are when we start meditating. We are not really meditating in the beginning, but softening and relaxing some of our patterns, lessening our struggle with our experience. One way to learn how to not be enmeshed in our experience is to feel the space surrounding our thoughts and emotions or to notice how they are not the same from moment to moment or to notice the breathing process and make this more important than our thoughts and emotions. A way out of being enmeshed is to first notice that this how we are with our experience and accept this. Whenever we accept what is, we relax some and let go of our struggle.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post-17243389463870217632009-09-29T16:48:08.881-07:002009-09-29T16:48:08.881-07:00Could you give some more tips how to 'not beco...Could you give some more tips how to 'not become enmeshed in the thought impression' (that is stored in our subconscious mind/ body ) when it does finally come to the conscious mind? Saying no clinging, no identification, and no resistance are good general descriptors but, for those of us who have never considered examining our emotions as such, even more specifics would be useful road maps. How can I not (feel/ become enmeshed) fear/terror when the emotion appears in my conscious mind?debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14766879183101535831noreply@blogger.com