Reference: Course on Subject Clearing
Without discipline no worthwhile activity works. Subject clearing has its own discipline that makes it work. That discipline is made up of the following 12 aspects of mindfulness. As you apply this discipline regularly to situations in your life, you will get better over time.
It is important that you be relaxed and let the mind present data to you. Do not avoid, resist, suppress or deny any thoughts, emotions, and even sensations. Simply be a witness and let the mind associate and unwind on its own.
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Commands
In Subject Clearing, a person is either studying about the subject, or observing it directly. While doing so, he may become aware of some tension or lack of clarity. There are things that do not make sense. He may ask himself:
“What does not make sense here?”
He may look more closely while applying the 12 aspects of mindfulness, and ask himself:
”What kind of anomaly is here?”
More details become available as he looks closely at things he might be identifying himself with. The contradictory data may be quite obvious, but he is aware of missing and arbitrary data also.
He follows whatever does not make sense. He may start out broadly, but he continually narrows it down. He follows different paths till it all starts to make sense.
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Comments
Quote from Swami Vivekananda:
“You must keep the mind fixed on one object, like an unbroken stream of oil. The ordinary man’s mind is scattered on different objects, and at the time of meditation too, the mind is first apt to wander. But let any desire whatever arise in the mind, you must sit calmly and watch what sort of ideas are coming. By continuing to watch in that way, the mind becomes calm, and there are no more thought-waves in it. These waves represent the thought activity of the mind. Those things that you have previously thought deeply, have transformed themselves into a subconscious current and therefore these come up in the mind in meditation. The rise of these waves, or thoughts, during meditation is an evidence that your mind is tending towards concentration. Sometimes the mind is concentrated on a set of ideas — this is called meditation with Vikalp or oscillation. But when the mind becomes almost free from all activities, it melts in the inner Self, which is the essence of infinite Knowledge, One and Itself It’s own support. This is what is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi, free from all activities.”
The melting of thoughts into each other to form the fabric of self is what we call “Assimilation.”