KHTK 1A: INTRODUCCION A MIRAR

 [Revisado Julio 9, 2011. Revisiones en azul] 

Esta es una serie de ensayos reconocidos por el acrónimo KHTK (De la frase “Knowing How To Know”, en español, “Sabiendo Cómo Saber”). Este es el primero de los ensayos de KHTK. En él se presenta el tema MIRANDO (VIENDO, OBSERVANDO, en inglés LOOKING) como la clave para Saber Cómo Saber.
 

TEORÍA

Mirar significa observar y notar las cosas tal y como son. Para saber algo, no es necesario usar etiquetas o palabras que lo describan, simplemente hay que verlo y reconocerlo como lo que es.

La idea clave es:

MIRAR Y SIMPLEMENTE OBSERVAR LO QUE ESTÁ AHÍ SIN ANTICIPAR NADA, NI TRATAR DE OBTENER UNA RESPUESTA.

Cualquier expectativa añadirá pensamientos extra a lo que uno está mirando. Intentos por obtener una respuesta también añadirán interpretaciones superfluas a lo que está ahí. Es una experiencia común que surjan pensamientos, etiquetas, evaluaciones, opiniones, conclusiones, etc., en la mente al estar mirando. Cuando tales pensamientos son suprimidos ellos empañan y modifican nuestra percepción de lo que está ahí.

Con frecuencia se nos enseña a suprimir nuestros pensamientos. Por ejemplo, en  muchas técnicas de meditación la meta primaria es poner nuestra mente en blanco. En otras se te pide concentrarte en un pensamiento para excluir a todos los demás. Estas acciones suprimen la habilidad de MIRAR.

Lo adecuado es no suprimir nada, sino simplemente notar esos pensamientos, etiquetas, evaluaciones, opiniones, conclusiones, etc., explícitamente, conforme ellos aparecen en la mente al estar mirando.

MIRAR NO REQUIERE LA SUPRESIÓN DE LOS PENSAMIENTOS QUE APAREZCAN EN LA MENTE. TÚ MIRA ESOS PENSAMIENTOS DE LA MISMA MANERA EN QUE MIRAS A TU MEDIO AMBIENTE.

Cuando uno no está suprimiendo ningún pensamiento o sentimiento, y está simplemente mirando sin hacer enjuiciamiento alguno, entonces, en ese momento, uno está siendo totalmente  honesto con uno mismo. Esta es la base de la Integridad Personal.

Al mirar:

  1. Simplemente hay reconocimiento.

  2. Hay una completa ausencia de enjuiciamiento.

  3. Hay una completa ausencia de resistencia.

  4. Si se presenta algún enjuiciamiento o resistencia, entonces simplemente reconócelo.

Estos principios fundamentales de MIRAR se aplican a toda entrada de información sensorial y mental.

El propósito de este ensayo es presentar el concepto de Mirar. Este concepto puede desarrollarse más ampliamente en los siguientes ensayos. En mi opinión, Mirar es un aspecto muy básico de la vida. Mirar lleva a comprender. La comprensión disuelve lo que resalta debido a alguna inconsistencia. Una inconsistencia es algo que no tiene sentido.

Cuando se disuelven todas las inconsistencias, reina una perfecta harmonía de comprensión.

 

APLICACIÓN 

Probablemente la mejor forma de iniciarse en KHTK sea encontrando un compañero y haciendo los ejercicios enlistados debajo. Tu compañero y tú se pueden alternar como “estudiante” y “guía”. En ausencia de un guía puedes hacer los ejercicios solo.

El guía puede ayudar al estudiante de la siguiente manera:

(A) Repasa la sección de teoría con tu estudiante.

  1. Responde sus preguntas de la mejor manera que te sea posible.
  2. Revisen los materiales de teoría hasta que el estudiante esté contento y satisfecho.
  3. Asegúrate de que el estudiante entiende los puntos principales destacados en negritas en la sección de teoría.

(B) Haz que el estudiante haga los ejercicios en secuencia.

  1. Guía al estudiante según el paso1 en cada ejercicio.
  2. Mantén una comunicación abierta y amigable acerca de la experiencia que está teniendo el estudiante en el ejercicio.
  3. Guía al estudiante según el paso 2 en cada ejercicio.

    

EJERCICIOS 

ESTOS EJERCICIOS NO ESTAN HECHOS PARA RESOLVER NINGUNA DIFICULTAD QUE LA PERSONA PUDIERA ESTAR TENIENDO. EL PROPÓSITO DE ESTOS EJERCICIOS ES FAMILIARIZAR AL ESTUDIANTE CON EL CONCEPTO DE MIRAR EXPERIMENTÁNDOLO. ESTO PUEDE LOGRARSE CON RAPIDEZ EN LA MAYORÍA DE LOS CASOS.

Ejercicio 1-1

  1. Mira alrededor del cuarto y observa diferentes objetos. Nota si la mente está etiquetando esos objetos conforme tú los miras. Por ejemplo, la mente podría presentar el pensamiento, “Esta es una lámpara”, cuando tú mires a una lámpara.

  2. De ser así, no impidas que la mente etiquete los objetos. Simplemente observa lo que la mente está haciendo. 

Ejercicio 1-2

  1. Mira alrededor del cuarto y observa diferentes objetos. Nota si la mente está evaluando conforme tú los miras. Por ejemplo, la mente podría presentar el pensamiento “Esta es una lámpara costosa”, al mirar una lámpara.

  2. De ser así, no impidas que la mente evalúe. Simplemente observa lo que la mente está haciendo.  

Ejercicio 1-3 

  1. Mira alrededor del cuarto y observa diferentes objetos. Nota si la mente ofrece conclusiones al mirarlos. Por ejemplo, la mente puede presentar el pensamiento “Yo nunca compraría esta lámpara” conforme la miras.

  2. De ser así, no impidas que la mente ofrezca conclusiones. Simplemente observa lo que la mente está haciendo.

Ejercicio 1-4

  1. Mira alrededor del cuarto y observa diferentes objetos. Nota si hay pensamientos apareciendo en la mente.

  2. En caso de ser así, no detengas los pensamientos que aparecen en la mente. Simplemente nota esos pensamientos y continúa mirando los objetos. 

 

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August 2, 2010 – 6:28 PM Categories: Self-Improvement, Spanish | Comments (2)

Desire, Will and “I”

Desire is the point where it all begins. Will, as in “free will”, is the course taken by Desire.

As far as Desire goes, there is only one choice, and that is to follow the desire. But as far as the course that can be taken to fulfill the desire is concerned, there is infinity of choices that can be made.

Desire may choose a single fixed course. The universe is an example of this. The universe seems to be completely governed by its desire to evolve. As it evolves, it solidifies through its complexity. The beingness and behavior of the physical aspect of the universe, is pretty much fixed and predictable.  The only choices available are those within these laws, which are being exploited by Science to obtain physical comforts.

The course becomes increasingly fixed as it is directed.

But the Desire that is exploiting the physical universe has to be highly capable of imagination. In other words, it should be capable of making choices in an unconstrained fashion in the course of its investigation of the physical universe. The beingness and behavior of such a Desire would be highly variable and unpredictable. It will make its own laws as needed and will then discard them.

The beingness or “I” comes about as a result of Desire. The nature of “I” depends on the course that the Desire takes in search for its fulfillment. The “will” tends to be associated with “I”. But both “will” and “I”, whether free or constrained ultimately depend on Desire.

Do you really possess free will?

Well, check the desire that is being manifested as “you” and the course it is taking. If “you” represents a very inventive Scientist, such as, Edison, then “you” is exercising a lot of free will. But if “you” represents a cockroach, then that “you” is capable of exercising little free will.

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July 29, 2010 – 10:24 PM Categories: KHTK | Comments (9)

Time

This is an expansion upon the essay Beginning.

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Cycle, Time and Time Track

TIME is an inherent characteristic of a cycle. It implies the persistence of something from beginning to end, whether it is desire, beingness, or awareness.

The essence persists while the form may change. Thus, beingness and awareness persist throughout a cycle while their manifestations as identities and viewpoints may go through various changes as the cycle progresses. These identities and viewpoints may stay in memory stamped with a sense of their relative occurrence. We may refer to this sense as TIME, and such a memory as TIME TRACK.

Thus, a “time track” of detailed incidents involving identities and viewpoints may exist in the memory.

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Impressions and Assimilation

The impressions of the time track gets fixed in place when they have not been thoroughly viewed. These are elements that are only partially assimilated. When those elements are thoroughly viewed and fully assimilated the “memory impressions” transforms into “knowledge.”  

The incidental details of memory dissolve into conceptual understanding when viewed thoroughly.

You may not know in detail what you ate for breakfast on 4th of July, 1987 but your attention is not fixed there. There is nothing there that needs to be known. The details of that moment have become irrelevant. The details of that breakfast may be approximated from the knowledge of that time period, but there is nothing mysterious that will demand your attention to be fixed there.

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Memory and Recall

If one cannot spot any incidents on one’s time track then it is quite possible that all incidents of that period have been properly assimilated. But it is also possible that one is being prevented from perceiving the incidents of that time period because of a lack of assimilation somewhere else.

It appears that the periods on the time track may get assimilated with respect to the viewpoint held, but viewpoints during different periods do not get assimilated.

Not looking a certain period of the time track from the same viewpoint held at that time, may produce illusions. It has been said that the most fundamental illusion is TIME, and this essay may point to something similar.

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Glossary

Time
Time is an inherent characteristic of a cycle. It implies the persistence of the cycle from beginning to end, whether it is desire, beingness, or awareness.

Time Track
The time track is the sense of relative occurrence.

Impression
A memory impression in the mind is made of associations that are relatively fixed. These are perceptual elements that are only partially assimilated. Upon full assimilation they have the fluidity of knowledge.  

Recall
If one cannot recall a specific memory, then it is quite possible that the memory has been fully assimilated into knowledge; and it would have to be reconstructed carefully for the time under consideration. But it is also possible that a lack of assimilation elsewhere is preventing the recall of this time.

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July 29, 2010 – 5:49 AM Categories: KHTK | Comments (1)

Beingness, Desire & Knowledge

A person is a being. That beingness is there, essentially, to satisfy some desire.

The key characteristic of beingness that is most valued is INDIVIDUALITY. This concept of individuality boils down to “an indivisible unit (of consciousness) that is unique.”

The INDIVIDUALITY is based on the uniqueness of the desire it is designed to pursue.

Each one of us is an individual. Each one of us is pursuing a unique “desire” that defines us. Though it is rare to witness an individuality defined by the single pursuit of a pure desire. Such individualities stand out because they go far in accomplishing their desire. Gandhi would be such a pure desire; and so would be Hitler. Here we are simply talking about a desire and not passing a judgment on that desire.

The knowledge disseminated by an individuality is obviously designed to serve that basic desire that defines it. There is no question about it. But, what I posit here is that there is “knowledge in itself,” which may then be moulded by the desire-bound-individuality for its purpose.

Knowledge may be biased by desire.

Thus, any person outputs knowledge that is slanted by the beingness of that person. There is no knowledge from any single source that would be free of slant, whether it is Hitler or Gandhi. But underlying that slant there exists “knowledge in itself.”

The biggest hurdle to perceiving that “knowledge in itself” is not the slant put on it by its “source”; though that can be a significant hurdle.

The biggest hurdle to perceiving that “knowledge in itself” is the the beingness that the viewer is. When one can rise above one’s own beingness then one may perceive that “knowledge in itself.”

“Knowledge in itself” exists for no beingness.

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July 22, 2010 – 8:49 PM Categories: KHTK | Comments (5)

Some of my favorite Music

I don’t really care about music, but some music just gets to me even when I don’t have any idea of what the lyrics are. My children, both of whom are quite musical, are amused at my odd and eclectic taste in music. On my recent birthday they compiled my favorites (there are not many of them) on a CD and presented it to me. The following selection contains many of them.

Lately, I have added some new ones.

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Adele – Rolling in the Deep

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Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You

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Coldplay – The Scientist

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Coldplay-Yellow

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The Cranberries – dreams

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The Police – Every Breath You Take

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Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time

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4 Non Blondes – What’s Up

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Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching

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Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy

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July 21, 2010 – 10:15 PM Categories: Music | Comments (5)