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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2011 12:27:11 GMT -5
Croak, a swift flip of the tongue; a tasty morsel. Croak, sitting in silence, without movement, perfect stillness. Croak. If a frog can AtA, so can you. Bro, The frog has buddha nature. It has that, because it doesn't have a mind to deal with. Can you imagine the frog fretting about not catching a juicy dragon fly? Or stressing himself out wondering if his croaking is good enough to catch a mate? I can't...lol Peace this message, and the thoughts and intention and drive that fuel it, are a vast swarm of flies. i'm getting fat on flies, croak. croak...or perhaps the swarm is still buzzing around and i'm starving? just be. okay. is typing a message like this included in that 'being'? yes. okay. at all times: yes, okay. yes. okay.
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Post by silver on Oct 24, 2014 3:59:14 GMT -5
Well...I read backwards to page 11 of this thread (was searching for just this title) and it seems a very lively and playful conversation about ATA'ing, and so on.
Something I've noticed recently is that since learning about and making my own attempts at ATA'ing, when I watch a movie that I've seen over and over, I'm picking up details that I never noticed before, and I keep wondering what's up with that, and it just keeps happening, I see something in the well-worn dvd's that I was totally unaware of before. Has this happened to anyone else? I was thrown at first, and couldn't figure out what was going on. It seems, too, like I'm noticing the actors' expressions and getting a different feel for what emotions and the nuances are happening. This is all making me do a double-take.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Oct 24, 2014 9:25:29 GMT -5
Well...I read backwards to page 11 of this thread (was searching for just this title) and it seems a very lively and playful conversation about ATA'ing, and so on. Something I've noticed recently is that since learning about and making my own attempts at ATA'ing, when I watch a movie that I've seen over and over, I'm picking up details that I never noticed before, and I keep wondering what's up with that, and it just keeps happening, I see something in the well-worn dvd's that I was totally unaware of before. Has this happened to anyone else? I was thrown at first, and couldn't figure out what was going on. It seems, too, like I'm noticing the actors' expressions and getting a different feel for what emotions and the nuances are happening. This is all making me do a double-take. Yea, very cool you are noticing this. It happens to me. I'm a Doctor Who fan, which means I can watch episodes over, and over. I sometimes even catch important stuff that explains better what's going on. It's almost always not dialogue but some silent action. But this is how life is too......and we don't get a do-over in life. Most of us live mostly in our head, which means we can miss a lot. Life happens always now, but if we live in our head, our attention gets stuck on stuff we're merely thinking about, which is usually not-now (unless we are on the job at work and get paid to do stuff, now, but that is not even a guarantee, because we can do stuff mechanically, from habit, also meaning not now......in fact, most of probably have jobs that we can do better out of habit). Thinking almost assuredly means we are not present now (because thought is a copy of a previous thought or event, or a projection into the future.....tomorrow is my day off, what shall I do tomorrow). We normally take self to be this thing that thinks. But if you keep up this noticing what I missed, eventually you might come to like this state better, the something that notices instead of the something that thinks. And after many years (not necessarily, but maybe, it depends upon the amount of time one spends in one or the other, thinking or noticing.....I'd say it usually takes a lot of separated moments of noticing to reach a sort of balance point of moving from one to the other) you might come to prefer the noticing not-self to the thinking self. And then when you prefer this observing not-self...it can become like blinking off and on, you notice when you are not present and when you weren't, it's like you blinked off. There is a cool film that actually portrays this. Now, I'm not a big Adam Sandler fan, I almost stumbled into seeing one of his films, they mostly look like just stupid juvenile stuff....but he has a big heart. However, I don't think it was deliberate, the affect, but his film Click is quite interesting from this standpoint of being conscious, or not. He is some kind of executive and wonders about being able to fast-forward through the boring parts of life. He gets tired of the numerous remote controls he has to deal with at home so goes in search of a universal remote control. He mysteriously meets this guy who gives him a remote control that controls the events of life, he can indeed fast-forward through the boring parts. But the mysterious guy (played by Christopher Walken) tells him one rule he must remember, once he has fast-forwarded through something, it's lost, he can't go back, no memory is formed of what he fast-forwarded through. So, it becomes really a film about consciousness, even though I don't think it was intended as such. I have made the comment before here about disappearing....and nobody (who read the post) knew what I was talking about. But I had passed that balance point of being the observing not-self over the thinking self, and when I was in the thinking self and came back to the observing not-self, I had actually in a very real sense, disappeared, while I was in the thinking self. I'm going to continue this in your Stephen Batchelor teacher thread, with a quote. sdp
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Post by silver on Nov 3, 2014 11:31:20 GMT -5
Well, it hasn't stopped yet! Yesterday I started watching my Simpsons dvd's and I kept seeing all these little details that I never noticed before, and it's still blowing me away -- I've watched these shows a LOT... Makes one realize just how much people operate on auto-pilot.
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Post by quinn on Nov 3, 2014 16:53:32 GMT -5
Well, it hasn't stopped yet! Yesterday I started watching my Simpsons dvd's and I kept seeing all these little details that I never noticed before, and it's still blowing me away -- I've watched these shows a LOT... Makes one realize just how much people operate on auto-pilot. Funny coincidence - found this pic and it's from a website called didyanotice.com.
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Post by silver on Nov 3, 2014 17:44:20 GMT -5
Ah, I love balloons and sparklies!
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