I can't find one of the first posts i made on nostr, my

#mitigation - 00 - so here is another:

#JoelGoldsmith says demonstration is *not* to stop thought and those that have tried have ended up in a bad place. But #EckhartTolle seems to say different by quoting #KrishnaMurti, "our progress on the spiritual path is determined by the cessation of thought".

To reconcile the two, the matter is about tuning out thoughts like *tuning out* of a mad radio station rather than *stopping* it. The radio station is still there but our attention is elsewhere. It is by turning our attention elsewhere that 'we tune out', deprive the mental noise what it needs - attention.

The big question is *how*?: see *only* what your eyes see, hear *only* what your ears hear.

What does that mean? Thoughts are a voice in our head but if we record sound with our phone, it won't record our thoughts but ambient sound so thought isn't heard by our ears. Also daydreams won't be recorded if we set our camera to record so daydreams are not what our eyes see.

Pain, discomfort, physical limitation is a very fast way of getting out of our mental noise and back to our senses. What most people do is seek comfort in thoughts, daysdreams, to get away from the pain, but that is a mistake.

I keep mentioning these parrots on an island that remind the inhabitants to be in the present moment. It is not parrots but pain, discomfort, physical limitation that remind us to be in the Now.

Serendipity arises when, faced with a negative situation we go back to our senses: see only what our eyes see, hear only what our ears hear.

"Any resistance closes the channel" (Tolle)

meaning at the moment of hardship, something going wrong, going *straight to senses* will open up opportunities for us but -- as you rubbed the lamp -- also disruption to our life as change is seen by the mind as disruptive.

We are all born with past pain that is experienced as negative energy. Imagine it as coal. In life we add to that pile with more new negativity, coal. Instead of shovelling that negative energy back onto itself why not throw it into the furnace of your success? It's energy, powerful, a power you alone possess by God's will.

We shovel it into the furnace of our success by *choosing* when pain, including emotional and mental pain, discomfort and physical limitation arise to see *only* what our eyes see and hear *only* what our ears hear.

Emotion only exists for 90 seconds in the body.

You will surprise yourself that, despite the *bad thing happening right now* you have a "peace of God that surpasses all understanding" (Bible)

"Verily, *with* the difficulty comes ease" (Quran).

*with*