Hi, I'll be working a slow booth at an event. The interaction frequency and duration of an interaction I expect to be fairly low - maybe several minutes to dozens of minutes without needing to talk with the attendees. I figure for the other staff I can pull out a notebook to look "focused".
I was planning on ideating for my own projects, then thought about actively trying to practice more.
Are there any practices I can do while working a slow booth?
I think if there's room I'll be able to stand up and do some passes.
Recapitulation, I'm not sure about, because it needs the eyes closed.
Maybe using the breath and gazing, looking for colors in the room?
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It’s the perfect setting to watch people & things & focus on the smallest details; then recap all that later on.
hm, I had not thought about trying to notice details specifically to recap, thanks.
Are you excited about the practice or only see a possibility of combining two chores? That is, do you suggest this solution because you can’t wait to fit more hours in, because the darkroom (or what works for you), fills up all of your free time? Practice always, but don’t become a dysfunctional employee. You need to live in the first attention too.
I'm trying to practice every day. It started off as a chore but I've started looking forward to it.
The weekend of the event, most of my hours are going to be involved with the event, and outside of that, basic needs. So my goal was just, find a way to get practice in, to keep the habit going.
Eventually you can, but at your level probably the best you can do is see how long you can go without any words in your mind, and see if you can find something nearby that you can focus your attention on, to see the effects of the silence.
Booth gazing?
You always need some magical feedback, or else you'll fall into pretending.
But that feedback is automatic as you progress to deeper silence levels.
Later on you can do this anywhere you go, through silence.
It's from a story Cholita told me, but I see similar things. I just couldn't get the AI to draw the last sight I remember seeing yesterday on the way to the grocery store. Since it drew what Cholita saw once, I kept it.
"Eventually you can, but at your level probably the best you can do is see how long you can go without any words in your mind, and see if you can find something nearby that you can focus your attention on, to see the effects of the silence.
Booth gazing?"
Those are 2 different things, (focusing attention & avoiding words), & gazing?
The silence one would work well, something I can do with my eyes open there. Thanks for the reminder to keep trying that.
They aren't 2 different things, but our community has managed to pretend t hey got rid of their internal dialogue for 50 years now, when in fact no one even got close.
Until this subreddit.
If you're still "here", then you didn't get rid of your internal dialogue.
At first, you begin to "translocate", meaning something like you see in that picture I made happens.
However, even if you risk pretending because you're forcing silence with no magical feedback, you can still make that work, if you are honest.
It's people who aren't honest with themselves that end up pretending they can get silent.
As if nothing happens!
It's impossible that you would remove your internal dialogue, and not be literally SWIMMING in magic.
Of course, something in between is what happens 99% of the time, but as long as there's some magic, you can improve your silence. Honestly.
No magic, and you can't really tell how you're doing.
(due to a lack of honesty).
I disbelieve no-one got close to stopping internal dialogue, this is false. Explain cleargreen to me.
Point to someone!
You almost certainly won't be able to...
Just a warning: All fake magic exists and continues to steal from people, based on a general belief in people that if there's hundreds making a claim some magical technique produces good results, for example Astral Travel, it must be true.
When in fact, everyone is lying. Each one thinking they can get away with misrepresenting their own experiences, because everyone can't be lying. Like they are.
But they can!
Thus we have religions which completely contradict each other, with the participants insisting their religion is true. And they insist they know that from real experiences they had.
Or we have Buddhist masters and famous Yogis claiming to be "enlightened", when in fact their level of achievement is demonstrably far below a beginner in here.
And no one in here is claiming to be "enlightened". We're basically practitioners of a simple technology. Not a religion.
It's the internal dialogue making people behave like that. Cagey and dishonest.
Cleargreen is the organization Carlos set up in order to teach Tensegrity in workshops. He tried teaching for free in parks, but hecklers showed up and made it impossible, so he had to rent facilities with locked doors and armed guards, and then he needed an organization to plan the events.
When Carlos died they decided to keep trying to earn a living from giving workshops, even though they all must have had real jobs before that. Workshops only lasted 4 years while Carlos was alive.
But they wouldn't give it up, and started making up fake techniques which Carlos would have tossed them out on their butts for doing.
And they had such a very poor understanding that they literally removed all expectations of magic from what they were selling to people. Even creating a belligerent audience which doesn't want to hear that everything Carlos taught, produces the kind of magic in his books.
They don't like to hear that!
How can that be???
It's easy. The followers of Cleargreen hope to steal on their own some day, with pretend magic.
Real magic threatens their motivations for learning it.
It's too much work to learn it for real.
I'm not reading all that shit, your full of shit and self promoting. You know fuck all.
So go away then. No one in here cares if you learn real magic, or confuse yourself with pretending.
We get attacked like that on average 3 times a week, for the last 5 years.
Same as Carlos did when he tried to teach in public parks.
But we have an unlimited flow of new people, so we can teach out in the open, for free, as long as the mods in here ban troublemakers quickly.
I'm not a mod however, just a visitor like yourself.
I just think you're self promoting, and talking shit. I practice, have done for a while. And the more I read from you I think your not as far along in your apprenticeship as you think.
"Apprenticeship" means you're a "first three book" type, who doesn't understand that the "Men of Knowledge" were not what we're trying to be at all.
Those were the bad guys in the books, not the good guys!
And what exactly am I promoting?
There's nothing for sale anywhere around here. Nothing at all. No books, no videos, no interviews, no workshops.
Not even a monetized channel.
It sounds to me like your main concern is attention seeking, so all you see is that.
You don't see real magic.
You see "who gets to be in charge".
Do yourself a favor, stop commenting, and read posts for a while.
You have three actual private class students of Carlos in here to help anyone who wants to learn to do EVERYTHING from the books of Carlos.
All of it.
Without drugs, without closing your eyes.
And we also have the 2 allies of Carlos helping us. He gave them to his private class.
Little Smoke (the moth and coyote from the books), and the Devil's weed entity.
They're in here.
Ask people.
Or go pretend elsewhere. We can't tolerate it or this place would be destroyed in a few months.
And even if you storm out in anger, do yourself a favor and watch some cartoons until you understand how amazing our magic really is! Magic you can do yourself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/184lqek/luminous_sphere_animation_1080p_finished/
That one will show you most of what you need to understand, but there's probably 10 more over here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/audiovisual/blender-animations/
See, when you write that much, it just smells fishy. You smell fishy.
I didn't read your reply, you remind me of Carlos. Whiney, no power.
😂
You're on a platform called REDDIT. As in read it!!
Fortunately, we aren't dependent on simply believing anything. The first IOBs are already noticeable with quite little inner silence. With your own experiences, you don't need explanations for anything, as you create your own references.
Redeploy energy or the series for intent. Do any that you can, as often as you can. Thumbs up emoji.