The Monkey And The Elephant

[SFRL]

So this night/morning I was meditating. I do that when I can't get back to sleep. 

Most times I will wake up around 4.30AM and my Monkey Mind is going ape-shit!!

So I quite down my restless mind by treating it like an actual monkey. It really works best when I treat that imaginary monkey the way I think one would deal with a monkey. 

So I imagine putting it in a cage on the side of a room in my imaginary house, and then checking on it now and then. Giving it some peanuts and some water and pet it a little bit. Then the monkey(mind) will act up a little bit but it is overall behaving and then it gets ignored for a little bit again, and then I will nurture it a little bit again. 

Now if I just put the monkey in that cage and completely ignore it, it goes on a rampage after a while. It gets left alone for to long with no attention what so ever it gets hungry or something and the monkey(mind) goes wild!!

All in all I know how to handle my monkey. 

But then when there is little to no noise the elephant walks in. He seems to like it better when there  is no noise around. But the elephant is fucking heavy when he sits on me. My mind and heart get all heavy and it's not a good feeling. 

The elephant he has a talent for knocking over and crushing the monkey cage and then the monkey gets all scared and starts making a lot of noise. Which in turn makes the elephant panic and he gets more angry and loud as well. And that gets the monkey screaming even louder. So now I have a monkey and a elepant tearing up the whole room together. 

I know how to handle my monkey. 

My question is how do you handle an elephant?  

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2017 by SFRL

[Joseph Maynor]

You are both and neither and even this sentence has to eat itself.

[AleksM]

@SFRL

How to handle the elephant? hmmmm.

By being arational. That which worked with the monkey doesn't work with the elephant. When the elephant goes into a dead end, be arational and swich his direction. It's hard and you need to be able to do this for years, consistently, everytime it's needed. Switching the direction of the elephant  in 1 second when it's needed. To do this the only way is to be aware of awarness. Not just that but by being aware of MORE awarness when the decisive moment is present. You need to be able to recognize that moment. That moment is very important.  The decisive moment Will be triggered by a memory of a perception. Reality is non-linear, so don't even expect a linear process, you need to be able to recognize the decisive moment and expand awarness of awarness in that moment. After a while, you and the elephant Will be so aligned that you could go in a teritory that was previously non accessible. It Will be like locked doors Will open in front of you without needing a key to open them.

Edited July 27, 2017 by AleksM

[SFRL]

@Joseph Maynor @AleksM

Thanks,

This has given me some idea how to handle that elephant. That elephant of mine, he is a bad motherfucker. He is strong as fuck and he brings a lot of rage with him, he is easily agitated. 

Next time he will try crush me I will imagine climbing on him and ride him somewhere else to roam around. Maybe have him kick down a few doors for me. 

 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2017 by SFRL

[starsofclay]

Ask the elephant if he would like some noise-cancelling headphones