Critical Thinking for Objective Truths

[WelcometoReality]

@Wisebaxter Glad to hear that you found it useful.

To some this intuitive knowing or small voice can be quite hard to hear or feel in the beginning so it can feel alittle bit abstract. If that is the case you can start to listen to your feelings as they to are good indicators. What makes you happy, unhappy, content or joyful. I guess adyashanti talked alittle about it in the previous video but here is another one. A heartbased practice will connect you to this better.

Nice notes by the way. Mind if I steal them? 

[Wisebaxter]

@WelcometoReality Haha I make all of my notes available for public consumption  

Here are some from the video you just linked:

"Loneliness can result from feeling separated from society, but it can also result from feeling separated from yourself somehow, from your own heart or inner experience. When you have difficult experiences it’s like the heart pulls back in and isn’t connecting to what’s out there anymore. It’s like nobody can reach you and you can’t reach out. The sensitivity of the heart is covered over. 

Whenever you’re deeply present you’re utilising the heart."

I'm getting a feel for this now, for this...sensing with the heart. I've been so closed up for years due to a consistent level of striving and suffering that all I ever get it mind, mind and more mind, until I'm going out it lol. There's a desperate grasping for a truth that's always elusive and never based on anything tangible. But now I know that being present and in touch with your body and your feelings is the way forward. This has been a big realisation for me and potentially life changing so thank you again for pointing me in the right direction. It's going to take a while so get in touch with the small voice again but I'm excited about this new way of doing things. I'll update this thread at some point with any news flashes I get, coming to you live...from the heart  

 

[Wisebaxter]

All this does beg the question though....how do you contemplate from the heart? Contemplation seems like a very important practice, but should we be doing it in a way that involves the heart, involves intuition? If it's purely mind/concept based, then isn't this a danger? Perhaps it's by using the meditation technique that @Nahm mentioned, where you sit and allow spontaneous insights to come 

Edited January 29, 2019 by Wisebaxter

[Nahm]

@Wisebaxter Only one way to find out. You could certainly meditate to slow the thought parade down a little / detach for a bit, and then do some self inquiry....’what do I feel like?’...’who is this me?’. Inquire enjoyabley & confidently. After all, it’s you you’re inquiring into. It’s not like you’re asking anything of anyone else. Perhaps the you & the You would love nothing more than to unify. 

[WelcometoReality]

Thank you @Wisebaxter  

I'm looking forward to see what insights you'll have. 

One of my biggest insights came from surrendering to the present moment. Allowing everything to be as it is.

 

[Wisebaxter]

@Nahm What about just for normal contemplation, you know, like contemplating a concept like 'habits?' Should this be a purely mind-based affair or is the technique you outlined still a good idea? Maybe you could hold the question in your head for a while then let go and wait for a spontaneous insight?

[Nahm]

@Wisebaxter Yes. From the finite mind perspective, you’ve got a question / situation in life, and an answer or two, or three - to what to do, or how to handle habits, etc. With meditation / inquiry, you are “going” from the finite mind perspective, deeper, “towards” the infinite perspective, which is not really a perspective, but all things / no specific thing, all questions & answers, no questions & answers... from which the finite perspective comes. The finite mind has only one, two, or three ‘answers’ because it’s perspective and answers are limited to the one-at-a-time thoughts / pieces of information - the finite lens, if you will. This is a good situation, it is what allows for the experience of a lifetime. 

Einstein said you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it, you must let it go.

Spira says you must release the consciousness which is of the question, to experience the consciousness which is of the solution, you must let it go. 

Ester Hicks says ask Source the question, trust the universe has heard you perfectly clear the first time, and to then let it go. 

Jesus said trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding, let it go.

The Buddha said do not believe in God, believe in humanity - believe in yourself, let it go.

Echkart recognizes the question arises via thought of past or future, and says to be here now, let it go.

From the infinite perspective, all of those people are appearances which are all actually happening within you. They are you, telling you, let it go.

[Wisebaxter]

@WelcometoReality

39 minutes ago, WelcometoReality said:

One of my biggest insights came from surrendering to the present moment. Allowing everything to be as it is.

I'm all over that one buddy. That was the thing that first got me into spirituality, when I read the Power of Now. Easier said that done most of the time though as I'm still programmed with a lot of old patterns surrounding needing to succeed. But when I do get into that state, during meditation, it's simply sublime. One skill I'd love to develop is being able to accept the moment as perfection and still be able to take action with life purpose stuff

[Wisebaxter]

@Nahm Wow, that was one badass answer. You're one insightful dude Nahm, I'm so glad to be able to digitally tap into your databanks like this. You make even the great sage Baxter feel humbled. Good job you don't have much of an ego to let all of these compliments inflate it  I have a lot to go on in this area now. This forum is the shit 

Edited January 29, 2019 by Wisebaxter

[Nahm]

@Wisebaxter Thanks!