Arizona 2012-04_Méditation et Contemplation

and the reason it's important to kind of have have this conceptual framework for the kinds of experiences that we are cultivating here is um is having a a conceptual framework for these non-relative and non-conceptual domains of experience will help you even at a cognitive level to displace the false picture of reality or the false truth that this that the that that the mind and the frontal personality is everything so as you have these kinds of experiences and then work also concep with what it is you're learning it'll help you to displace the false perception that the that the M that that that your mind and created self is everything it really does so you need the experience for for the con for the conceptualization to have weight and real value because then then the concept will actually represent something you know this non-conceptual realm that you know directly at the level of experience but but it it'll help you to to to to see no recognize and understand that that that uh that the mind while it's a great while it's one of the greatest Gifts of evolution the frontal cortex and the mind for human beings it's still only a relative apparatus which only gives a very partial but real but it's partial and relative picture and perspective of a certain dimension of reality only so knowing that it's only a certain Dimension and it's relative and partial really does change just about everything okay so a lot of people say well how much time should I be spending doing kind of what we've been doing the last three days you know it's whatever it takes there's no particular prescription that's going to fit that's going to fit everybody it's whatever it's going to take to convince you of the TR these of these truths what whatever it's going to take to convince you that's and nothing less than that's going to to be enough so you figure it out depends how important it is to you if you create the right conditions it's not that difficult to awaken to these deeper dimensions of reality and of the self but believe you me as easy as it is to awaken given the right conditions it's very easy to forget much more quickly even than you can imagine and uh most everybody does even people that think they're really swimming in this stuff still manag to forget because it's so subtle so that's the issue that's the challenge here so what what is it going to take for you you know never to forget the truth of of what of the these truths that we are uncovering together and looking into together and uh it's just something that no nobody can take for granted because the minute we take for granted that we know something like this we've pushed it away and people do that all the time including people who teach this stuff so I can't overestimate overestimate um how important it is to to take take a lot of the things I'm saying very seriously because uh because uh how cognizant you can remain to these absolute truths you know that'll just change every it'll change just about everything in your life