Relaxation, Self-Contraction, and a Brief Cessation of Suffering lesson

Dissolve tension in the natural state of open awareness.

Learn how to dissolve any tension or pain, without effort, by remaining loosely in the natural state.

Synopsis

The basic conflict. Self-contraction, the root of tension. Relaxation can’t be done. The trap of ‘how.’ Misunderstanding, the basic hang-up. Understanding right where you are. Forcing and resisting, the cause of suffering. Ego, the enemy number one. The formation of ego. Lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps. A rose is a rose is a rose. Neither this nor that. The skillful means of awareness and breathing. The great perfection. Exercises: (1) life energy follows attention; (2) don’t think of a pink elephant; (3) clench and release; (4) body relaxation; (5) natural meditation.

Excerpt

Man as such is neurotic, schizophrenic, divided against himself. He is in a perpetual conflict. The conflict between how things are and how he’d want them to be. This conflict creates tension and causes suffering.

He must relax, but he is too tense and too busy to relax. Yet he must relax. This creates a double bind.

To make things worse, relaxation is not something that one can do. Its very nature is absence of doing and trying, the cessation of becoming, the abandonment of struggle.

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Neither encouraging nor inhibiting whatever arises and passes away, but maintaining this state of alert awareness beyond all acceptance and rejection, there is relaxation free of any grasping. Therein lies natural meditation.

Product Details

Psychokhemia Institute catalogues this text as follows:   1. Yoga and Tantra Studies—Relaxation/Meditation.

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