Reference:
… Course on Subject Clearing
Looking and Anxiety
When you look at something in your mind and get an answer right away, you feel satisfied and move on. But when no answer comes, anxiety can set in, and you may feel stuck.
The natural impulse is to start digging for an explanation. A better approach is to stop searching and simply hold your attention on that area while going about your day. With patient, relaxed attention — no forcing, no expecting — the mental fog tends to lift on its own, sometimes revealing things that were long buried. Realizations may follow, though they can take days to surface.
Relief comes from looking calmly, not from searching frantically. Anxious, forced digging into the mind has, in some cases, led people toward serious psychological harm.
The key rule:
It is completely safe to look at any area of the mind, for as long as you like — as long as you do not start anxiously digging for explanations.
How the Mind Naturally Unstack Itself
When you look at the mind without forcing it, something natural happens:
- The mind begins to unstack itself layer by layer. Each layer rises into awareness, dissolves, and makes way for the next.
- These layers are connected by meaning, and they surface in a natural order. When this happens on its own, there is no harm or overwhelm.
- This natural process is disrupted the moment you start anxiously searching for answers.
- Harm only comes when you interfere with the order in which the mind wants to unstack itself.
Routinely forcing your mind to produce explanations puts you at genuine risk.
The Core Idea
Most people observe themselves through the lens of “self” — a set of assumptions and identities they carry without realizing it.
You will do yourself a real favor by learning to look without interrupting the mind. Let it unstack itself in its own order.
What matters most is the purity of looking — being present without your “self” getting in the way.
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Comments
Getting involved is part of the process. One learns to look out while looking in. Being affraid of the inside cannot be the reason to look outside the same way many look outside for fear of the inside. One can look in the same way one looks outside. It’s a natural pendular motion, they are connected. Where are the boundaries between them? No one can really tell.
No one should fear his own quest(ions). Digging in allows expanding out when there’s trust in one’s own process. Perhaps that is the problem, is that we fear the mind and its content. And so we repress it and it starts creating odd things, like the ones we know and see.
This is excelent. This reflects the trust I always had in the natural unfolding of things. Sitting and waiting. Breathing. But still I feel things intensily and live the human dreams/dramas.
Buddhahood is no more perfection than it’s a simple transmission. The whole existence beams and transmits it. The truth speaks through us when there’s no one left in us to speak. When in and out are one, when mind and universe are one. Two sides is the illusion. Man(y) could be the solution.
The layers of the mind are the layers of the universe
(Y)our layers.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Wonderful job.
I have added my latest epiphany to the end of this essay. It came after reading the verse 10.71 of THE RIG VEDA as translated by Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty. It is worth a read.
See THE RIG VEDA page 61.
~Vinaire
You have gone to a lot of work and put yourself out here in a courageous fashion. Using your technique and applying it to the thoughts rising in my mind about your blog, I have distilled my question to the one which feel is least judgmental and most sequitur.
How are these materials an improvement over the TR’s and obnosis drills of Scientology?
They are free, and others may improve upon them in the spirit of science.
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