Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
Looking and logical thinking are two very different activities. Looking is being there and facing the circumstances without flinching or avoiding. Logical thinking is associating ideas and figuring things out.
When doing mental exercises, it is much safer to simply look than try to figure things out. You don’t want to figure-figure when handling the mind. You simply want to observe and become more aware. There is no need to influence the mind by some teaching or preconceived idea. Best teaching comes from your own mind as it attains a new equilibrium of awareness.
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Memory Exercise
In the memory exercise, when you are recalling a time when you were happy, you just look to see what the mind brings up. You don’t start meditating on what happiness means, because that would be figure-figure in the context of memory exercise.
Actually, it is quite possible that the mind may bring up a moment of unhappiness rather than happiness in the memory exercise. So, you just look at that response and acknowledge it. You do not use logic to analyze the response.
The purpose of exercise is not to judge the mind’s response, but to look at the mind’s response. As you continue with the exercise, you may come to realize sooner or later why the mind responds the way it does.
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Meaning, Meditation and Contemplation
If you want to understand the meaning of ‘happiness’ then you start with the dictionary meaning and let it establish harmony with all other concepts that you are holding in your mental matrix.
Meditation or contemplation is all about establishing harmony among all the concepts that you are holding in your mind. You do that by allowing natural logic of oneness to function. But you do that separate from the memory exercise.
Once you have settled on the meaning of ‘happiness,’ and on the meaning of other words that you have questions about, then you can go back and do the memory exercise.
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Postulate Mechanics
Looking involves looking directly at a postulate. Natural logic works in the background to assimilate all postulates towards a oneness (harmony, consistency and continuity).
But ego insists on enforced logic and judgment to solve some problem for itself. While awareness simply looks and wonders at what is there and lets it all sort itself out by natural logic of oneness.
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