I don´t know what to write and I don´t want to chatter like my mind is doing.
A central and big question with chapter LOK 18: How to work with the self? Sometimes all seems clear and sometimes it seems to be an insurmountable task.
I will go on holiday for two or three weeks (without a computer). So you will receive no post. Perhaps it will be possible to stay with the programme (readings and exercises) and to be in contact with all of you. Why not? I will listen between words and within silence.
In any case, I will continue with part three of the pragramme.
Peter (Ludwig)
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Hi Peter,
About your “insurmountable task”, it often feels that way, doesn’t it? A thought. TASK puts the A (Awareness?) back in TSK. I’ve been finding the LOK readings very satisfying, but then the practices, if I struggled with them more, I know would give me a stronger sense of how insurmountable a task it is to seriously challenge the dominance the self holds over all aspects of my life. As I express in another post, I even found myself feeling that the self can’t be all bad if it provides continuity over time. I guess my personal “self” must be pretty confident that it is in charge, to put forward that kind of assertion in a TSK program. I like what you say about listening between words and within silence. Perhaps that’s the “shimmery, luminous quality within experience” suggested in Exercise 23.
–Michael