Month: January 2015

A T T E N T I O N:

P S Y C H O A C T I V E

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The Vajra Self-Rectifying Processes
ESPECIALLY POTENT WHEN COMBINED WITH THE TONGUE MUDRA


~ The Lightning Bolt ~
(The Hammer of Thor)

~ The Thunderclap ~
(A Rumbling in the Canyon)

The TetraSeed of Every Experience

“Vajra” :  “Thunderbolt” and “Diamond” (Sanscrit)

A word in advance:
This entry contains instructions for procedures that, due to their simplicity, are advanced practices.  Known collectively as, The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind, they require sufficient control of your attention muscle to do them.  Without that adequate control, some may find that their thinking-word mind is producing too much noise — noisier even, than The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind — impossible for some, for now.

The key for those with “noisy mind” and “weak attention muscle” is practice of The Gold Key Release and The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual.

In this entry, I present two procedures — The Lightning Bolt and The Thunderclap (“Flashing the Unknown Unknown”), that, when combined, provide a quick, nearly-instant way to disarm and dissolve grips seemingly held upon us held by unconscious habits of self-contraction and distress, so they can be sucked out of your mind, right then. Mental quiet ensues.

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Gate` Gate` Paragate
Parasamgate
Bodhi! Svaha!

Gone! Gone! Gone beyond.

Gone beyond going beyond.

Awakening Intelligence! Beneficial!

~ The Prajna Paramita (Heart) Sutra ~

Rationale for the Lightening Bolt |
(The Hammer of Thor)

 (Walking Backward)

The Lightning Bolt is a back-door
maneuver for surfacing and dissolving hidden grips that keep us buried
in the momentum of our habitual lives, confused and stuck — but . . . .
. hopeful !!! above all, hopeful !!! Another term for that is “dukkha”. It’s a “one foot on the accelerator, one foot on the brake” situation.

Those
hidden grips show up as patterns tendency for things to go a certain way, of behavior habits and characteristic personal experiences
that are recognizable in a person, that have a  feel to
them that are part of the person’s sense of self, their presence, their way of harmony in life, more or less, their personal quality and the habits by which people recognize
them.

These
hidden grips show up as the chronic issues and ongoing complaints of a
person’s existence; perhaps unexpectedly, they also show up as the
virtues they uphold. They are the programs of a person’s existence, a
body of unfathomably deep-seated, totally unconscious tension sets (on
your mark, get set . . . . . ) maintained perpetually on automatic:  all
kinds of memory conditioning, residual influences, sensations that are
below where attention ordinarily reaches in ourselves, unless flushed up enough to be recognized. 

When flushed up, are
seen to major distortions in oneself in the form of, “How it the
world did I get that way??”  But before that, it is generally something
unrecognized that we do and experience again and again, and again.

Such an experience, as and however remembered, can be “blitzed” by The Lightning Bolt or shattered by The Hammer of Thor
— to dissolve away the part or aspect of that behavior pattern that we
confuse with the basic reality of life and so believe is unavoidable.

We may artfully use The Lightning Bolt and The Gold Key Release, alternately, to good effect; one does “clean-up” after the other. 

We
confuse conditional reality with our fundamental sense of
ever-hereness, which IS reality; we confuse (mentally fuse) conditional
reality with Eternal EVER-HERENESS — and the sign of this confusion is
the feeling that things will never change (which is how it feels,
whatever we may think). This confusion of EVER-HERENESS with memory
gives memory an air of permanence, even while it’s temporary.

BACKGROUND:  Ever-Here-ness and Conditional Reality
EVER-HERENESS
doesn’t change — and it ain’t nuthin’ in particular. It “always
already IS”.  However, for these words to make sense, you must have
awakened to the intuition of, “that which has been the same all my life”
— which is not an object of attention (inner or outer), nor anything that can be intended, remembered or imagined.

It’s what The
Buddha called, “a tacit intuition”.

Practice of The Gold Key Release
dissolves the sense of “something-ness”, so that we may intuit our
formless presence, which, in that moment of intuition, we recognize as
having always been.

When we catch that we are
considering “EVER-HERENESS” to be “something we can identify”, WE
RECOGNIZE THE FALLACY OF IT because EVER-HERENESS is not a product of
mind or an object of mind. It is of an order completely other than mind;
it is “formless feeling”, a kind of feeling that dissolves attention so we come to rest in a natural way as “consciousness without an object”.  At that moment of recognition,
we may release what we have mis-identified as EVER-HERENESS,” and intuit
the field of radiant awareness that underlies everything and pervades
us, ourselves.

Contrary to everything we have thought or have heard, Reality is unknown by us, unknown to us — not a form of knowledge, at all, but ineffable experience that cannot be reduced to comprehension.  Reality cannot be defined.

The reason The Lightening Bolt
works is that our habitual states are always forms of definition or
limited conditioning, whereas Reality is inherently formless.  When we
let go of our sense of Reality, we are not letting go of Reality, but of conditioning mis-identified as Reality, but which we have held onto as if it were Reality.

Said, again, when we do the release-step of The Lightening Bolt (The Hammer of Thor),
we may think we are releasing the effort to intuit, identify, or locate
Reality (our Here-ness), when what we are really releasing an effort
that keeps us stuck in our conditioning, which, as I said, we confuse
with “Here-ness”.  When we release the effort to intuit “Here-ness”
(or “Now-ness”, or “Reality”), we release the force of our conditioning
along with it. What’s left is the intuition of formless Reality.

Most strictly speaking, “Here-ness” is always already the case and always already our present condition.  We are always, already Here — so anything we may do to intuit “Here-ness” is in addition to Here-ness and can only obscure our intuition of “Here-ness” as our already condition.  The release that occurs in The Lightening Bolt only clears that way for that intuition.

The
way to intuit Reality, or Here-ness, or “The Now”, is to let go of it
and any effort to intuit it.  Then, something entirely unexpected
flashes forward or the way clears into it. Beyond these words, nothing
useful may be said.

So, strike The Lightening Bold a few times in a row.  Notice the result.  It gets interesting.

The Lightning Bolt

Thus:

1. In your memory, fully experience whatever
   experience you would like to dissolve, whether a negative condition, an
   ideal that you recognize compulsively limits you, or any arbitrary thing
   you might like to change.

   The steps are:

   1. Feel its existence. [advanced:] Intend its existence. (one breath)
   2. Feel its persistence. [advanced:] Remember its persistence. (one breath)
   3. Feel its location. [advanced:] Attend to its location, as felt or experienced. (one breath)
   4. Feel its direction (where it’s going). [advanced:] Imagine its direction. It’s a kind of opening-to (one breath)

   Do not think, ruminate about, or analyze it; that’s not experiencing. Steady your attention on each step long enough for it to stabilize; you’ll get an experience.

   You do the advanced forms once you easily remember the basic steps.

2. Feel it all as a single intensity.
3. Notice what is not that. Feel until your
   attention steadies a bit.  Relax into it. Let yourself lose track of that shape.

   (If
   you can’t let yourself lose track and feel outside the shape, notice
   what constrains you — some tension or holding on. Feel that and continue.)

4. Now, switch to noticing your sense of “Here-ness” — that which has always been the same, all your life.

   ALTERNATELY: Feel your whole body as the shape of a sensation.

5. Notice what you do to locate, “Here-ness”.
   The action feels like “centering”. It’s the target of the lightening-strike.

   ALTERNATELY: Hold the sensation, draw and release three breaths.

6. Recognize that sensation as a temporary, stressful effort.  Stop holding onto it.  Let it go.  Lose track of it.

You will feel tensions dissipate, yourself reshape, and probably sigh spontaneously as the experience dissolves partially or completely.

You
have felt the experience as it is, diffused your attention as much as
you can, and then located and struck at the center of your sense of “persistent reality” and then dissolved it — hence the name, The Lightning Bolt. Imagine a little puff of smoke where your sense of reality used to be. Just kidding.

The Hammer of Thor
The Hammer of Thor uses the power of intention to undo the effects of conditioning. It reveals how our own intention, running on automatic, keeps that conditioning in existence, and relieves us of that condition either in big chunks or, in the case of extremely dense conditioning, layer by layer.

The structure of The Hammer of Thor is as follows:

Locate and identify the feeling of the condition or conditioning you want to pulverize and dissipate. This step is similar to the equivalent steps in the other procedures presented on this page. You may use variations of this step found in other procedures. Use what works well, for you.

With that feeling-attention, follow these steps:

Think to yourself, with intent to experience it:

1. Intending
2. Intending
3. Intending intending
4. Intending [the condition or conditioning].
5. Feel for and release your intention about it.

Repeat to a satisfactory result (dissolution of the item).

The Thunderclap / (a-Rumblin’ in the Canyon)

Rationale

The things we experience, presently,
have a certain momentum to them, maintained by our memories of them.
 Those memories occupy the space in which we would like to put a new
experience, so we have to remove them to make space.

The Thunderclap consists of two parts.

1. By
   alternating between remembering our current experience and imagining our desired experience,
   we loosen the grip and dissolve the density of the current experience.
    That action is the part of the “Thunderclap” that creates the needed space.
2. In the space created, we attend to and intend our desired experience.
   That “attending” and “intending” is a new reverberation in the world.

Once you’ve created space and set up a new reverberation, persons and conditions around you that can resonate with your intention begin to do so and, as they show up, you will perceive in them a possibility of fulfilling your intention.

You may use The Thunderclap to fulfill desires or to transform conditions — to go beyond and then to go beyond going beyond.

The Thunderclap is thus:

1. Identify an experience you would like to have.
2. Call up whatever you may remember about it.
3. Imagine the possibility.
4. Return to your memory of it.
   You will notice that your memories color your sense of possibility.

Now, when the space is noticeably clearer:

1. Imagine how it all might change.
2. Remember how it all might change.
3. Imagine how it all might change.

Now, when your perception of how it all might change is vivid:

Apply your intention to what you have just imagined, one last time, to the degree you are able, and do The Lightning Bolt on it.

Repeat to a satisfactory result. Each cycle through will be different.  The closer your imagining gets to your felt ideal, the easier it will be to apply your intention (the push to have things change) to it.

Thus:

1. Identify
2. Remember
3. Imagine
4. Remember
5. Imagine 
6. Remember
7. Imagine
8. Intend.

Repeat to a satisfactory result.

Stages 2-4 and 5-7 are forms of reverberation and Step 8, like the ongoing rumbling of thunder.

You will feel your imagination contact results that are more and more in line with your intention, with each repetition.

If you have difficulty reaching a satisfactory result, do The Lightning Bolt and then return to The Thunderclap.

Transcendental Pervasion
All experience arises within and from the Unknown Unknown. We arise from and within the Unknown Unknown.

The Unknown Unknown may be intuited by noticing the totality of

• what we see in this moment — and what is beyond it
• what we hear in this moment — and the silence beyond it
• what we feel in this moment — and what is beyond all that

This is not a thinking process (other than to get us started); it’s a sensing process (possible only when your ability to pay attention to something is stronger than your attraction to thinking).

A verse by Lao Tzu, found in The Tao Teh Ching, “points to” the Unknown Unknown:

That which we look for, beyond seeing,

and call the unseen,

listen for, beyond hearing,

and call the unheard,

reach for, beyond grasping,

and call the withheld

merge beyond understanding in a Oneness

that does not merely rise and give light

set and leave darkness

but forever sends forth a succession of living things

as mysterious as the unbegotten existence to which they return.

That is why men have called them empty phenomena

with no face to meet, no back to follow.

Yet one who is anciently aware of existence

is master of every moment,

feels no break, since time-beyond-time

in the way life flows.

This procedure depends upon your having sufficient mastery of your attention/intention/memory/imagination to remain free of the attraction of thought and in direct experience. It goes as follows:

1. Identify your “item” (conditioning).
2. Feel its location in you, its shape and intensity.
3. Switch: Feel it and all what is beyond it (radiationally outwardly) toward the space that contains it all.
4. You cannot feel that space because it’s the Unknown Unknown; what you can feel is your inability to locate it.
5. Return to your item in the intuition of “inability to locate it”. Bring that intuition toward your item.

   At first, you may not be able to locate your item, same as you couldn’t locate the Unknown Unknown.

   When your item reappears to your noticing, notice that it is a location of density within the Unknown Unknown, which pervades it.

6. Feel the contrast between the density of your item and the lack of density of the Unknown Unknown.
7. Stay with it until your item starts to lose its cohesiveness, to dissolve and dissipate.

The actual doing of the procedure is much simpler than the words used to describe it. The first time is the most difficult. After that (if you have adequate control of your own mind), the process is readily available.

other TetraSeed Transformation procedures 

• The Gold Key Release
• The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gem
• The Spell-Maker/Breaker
• The “Vajra” Self-Rectifying Process
• Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan Buddhism

http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2015/01/tetraseed-modulations-vajra-self.html

The Gold Key Release
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NO! This is a smart person!

a wonderful person!

He cleans up after himself.

He picks up his clothes.

He can read.
He’s nice.

He’s also a clever person, having learned a thing or two.

He knows the difference between

“flip” and “flop”

knows when it’s OK to be flip
and knows when his flippancy has flopped.

Oh, most unflappable one,
I see you keep your equilibrium pretty well —

— most of the time.

You are intelligently mindful of how we are unavoidably
affected by each other
and inextricably interconnected,
with everything unified in the present moment,
not as an idea or ideal, but as a perception
of how things actually are,

feeling and observing how we are affected by this moment
in a resonant and moving equilibrium
continuous in moment to moment experience
participating and yet mystified,
faithful in nothing in this life made of change,
in which the currents of our own existence
carry murky, turbulent memories that shape and color our times.

You sound like a wise man (or woman).

How did that happen?

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1. experience: the emergence of the “present” from the unknown: self,
   others and things, the momentary and total condition of “now” | Without
   the gathering and coalescing of attention and aggregations of memory,
   experience is void, without meaning, without significance, without
   object, just movements of the unknown
2. memory : persistence of experience, the experience of “now”
   (immediate memory), meaning, recognizable events, holding on to
   experience and experiences, having experience “be in your face”
3. identification: choosing to stick with a certain experience at any
   moment : assigning importance, assuming memory (persistence) is reality :
   taking remembered experiences of self as self and our perception of other things as “the way they really are.” (The Myth of Actuality = “The Myth of the Given”)
4. perpetuation:  intending, inviting, seeking to make more, or
   refusing, seeking to make less, all motivation, all “go”, all “stop”,
   all spin, all involvement with, all imagining

experience
Jimmy has never been to a baseball game.

His father comes home with tickets to see the Cardinals.

They go on a Saturday.

At the ballpark, Jimmy takes it all in, eyes open wide.

Dizzy Dean is pitching.

He winds up.  There’s the pitch.

Foul ball.  Into the stands.

Jimmy catches the ball.

memories
Now, Jimmy has a story to tell the guys in the neighborhood.

What does that do for his social status?

Jimmy likes the attention.  He brings the ball to school, he tells the story at Sunday School, around …

The more Jimmy tells the story,
the more he reinforces the memory of it
and his place in it.

assuming memories are truth, reality, or self
Jimmy takes credit for catching the foul ball,
lays claim to special status, reason for pride.
casts himself into a self-image that he takes for himself
and shows around.

perpetuating what we remember as extended forms of “self”
Soon, Jimmy is a fan.

He’s read up on Dizzy Dean, knows his statistics,
roots for the Cardinals,
feels the glory when they win
feels the humiliation when they lose.

He’s even gotten into a couple of fights over it.
He can’t help himself.
But then, he’s only ten.

That was a long, long time ago.
Now, Jimmy’s a Republican.

He’s sent to the front.  Wounded.
Now he has a limp.  And a medal.

He’s honorably discharged and sent home. He gets special recognition, special privileges. (This was an earlier time.)

He’s sent to an innovative form of therapy that promises he can walk, again.  In fact, he’ll lose the limp.

But
now, George doesn’t know “who he’d be” without his war wound.  He’d
seem ordinary.  He also can’t imagine walking normally, again.  He’s
forgotton his “pre-army” state.  His wound and his status as a wounded
war vet, based in memory and the seeming permanence of his wound, have
made him into something else.

The therapy doesn’t work.

He gets into politics.  Eventually, he runs for political office.

Now,
he gets some mileage out of being a wounded war vet.  His wound is his
badge of courage.  He cherishes the identity of “War Vet”, keeps it
low-key on the campaign trail.  He imagines that it is some of the basis
of the respect with which people treat him, that it’s a “trump card”: 
On certain topics, no one dares challenge his position.

And, of course, years later, he’s a Republican.

“Somatic Awakening” is not an “awakening to” something. It’s an awakening as something and then an awakening from it. 

It’s “awakening as” what one most ordinarily IS,

scanning and observing it with attentiveness,

feeling it, inhabiting it,

enfolding it,

assessing its “charge”: how one feels implicated (entangled)

in the force of memory,

detecting the imagination of memory,

then awakening from imagining,
releasing the sense of “something there”, feeling it dissolve into the formless field of attention, as no-self, original self, more familiar than breathing

It’s going backward through
the stages of priority (“that which came before”)
“upstream” of the creative process,
to
awaken,  undefined, as self-source — the Natural State, the awakening of which feels like A Big, Divine Kosmic Kiss, which we may symbolize
by the word,

which is also what it feels like, as we dissolve into the undefined Condition.

1. He feels his position, attitude, standpoint, or whatever he is stuck
   with or is perpetuating — his knowledge, his chosen identity, his
   refuge in the immunity of “rightness”. 

   Whatever it is, it’s a sensation,
   felt bodily, with a location, size, shape, and intensity in the overall
   body-sense (kinesthetic body, subtle body, etheric body, dream body — whatever the name). 
   Feel each term.  Pretty similar, huh?

   It may occur to him that he
   may have “bought in to something” — assigning the status of “reality”
   to his memory-shaped-colored perspective in the world: “the truth” or
   “The Truth”,  “oneself” or “the Self”. 

   It may occur to him that, that
   he does not “have” it, but that it “has” him — that he lives “inside” it
   and is subject to its limitations, which he takes as Reality and not a product of his way of remembering and seeing things — his perspective.  To him, it’s solid, real, and consequential. The mood
   is, “This is real.” or “This matters” (to a greater or lesser
   degree– but note: If something makes a difference to you, you’ve bought
   into it and it has you.)

2. He feels how much of this sense of “solid truth” or “things
   mattering with consequences” feels like memory and how much of memory
   feels like imagination.  It’s a “feel” thing, not an “answer” that he
   comes up with. He traces the feeling from the sense of solid truth to
   memory to imagination.

   He imagines, moment to moment, that a scenario — of which he is a part — is developing and he has expectations — informed, in part, by
   memory, and his perceptions are shaped and biased by memory.

3. Remembering is re-imagining something into our experience. The
   seeming persistence, the solidity or reality of anything you can put
   your attention upon is memory.  Memory fades unless refreshed by
   imagining.  The denser the memory, the more persistent it is.

   The way we do it:
   We put attention on the feeling of having some experience. 

   We sense the feeling of experience without words,
   as a sensation someplace within us
   We feel its size, shape, intensity.

   We pump up our ability to sense our somatic state
   with “attention maneuvers”.

   We sense how much (not “what”) intention we have toward it
   We notice how steadying attention solidifies intention.

   We feel the whole package as a single, contained force:
   the thing we are experiencing
   and our intention toward it made solid by attention.
   How intention*attention = memory.

   Now, we feel how much it matters
   in order to bring ourselves into the picture
   and acknowledge how much we are involved.
   How much it matters has to do with our relation to the world.
   Observe it, when you get around to doing a Gold Key Release.

   We may then own the intensity of the memory
   even if we don’t know or understand when the memory is
   and we may sift that intensity
   to find the feeling of imagining.

   We
   feel how much it feels like “solid reality”, how much feels like
   memory, and how much of the memory feels a bit like imagining (or as we
   like to say, “daydreaming” or “being entranced”). 

   We feel
   “remembering” and “imagining” and alternate between them until we can
   zero in on each equally steadily and equally easily, and so can balance
   them.  What makes it easier to alternate more to one side than the other
   is that we are more entranced by it.  These words make sense with
   experience, but perhaps not before.  Save yourself the brain-fog;
   instead of “trying to figure it out”, just do it (at least once).

   If you
   have trouble with this step, deliberately remember something.  Feel
   what remembering feels like.  Then imagine something.  Feel what
   imagining feels like.

   Now apply those distinctions to your sense of “solid truth”.

4. Feel the dissolution of his “fix” (or fixation) — the thing he has
   been perpetuating — as his discovery or sense of “how much of it is
   imagination” is “the little valve” through which the “air” that has
   inflated his sense of “solid truth” (and ego) escapes.  Simpler if he
   just does Step 3. (Imagination is easier to let go than “solid truth”.)

5. He takes a breath, lets go of the imagining, and falls toward (or into) his identity-less,
   natural state, at least for the moment. (Don’t do this while driving or
   try to understand this by reading it.  Do the procedure. Do it well at
   least once.)
6. He checks the remaining intensity of the feeling.  If anything is left, he starts at Step 1.

From here, we go to the first “magical” process for decrystallizing crystallized identity patterns:

The Gold Key Release
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• The Middle Way Memory Matrix Ritual
• Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan Buddhism