"Yes"
"No"
"Silence"
"Mhmm"
Is a rogue word inner dialogue? Every word is linked to a thousand other words and concepts. So dialogue?
Is a fleeting image dialogue? A picture tells a thousand words. So dialogue?
A thought about a thought? "What am I thinking?" Dialogue...
How much silence is "enough" anyway? I laugh at myself, in the moments I'm silent for a few seconds, then the dialogue ensues "I'm doing it!" Doh.
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Awesome! You definitely described what trying to reach inner silence is like.
The “fleeting image dialogue” that’s one I’ve thought of as well. When you’re getting silent and pushing away the chatter and stopping dialogue, images come, I’ve wondered if those images are connected to the second attention, but we also know you need a period of time spent silent to reach the second attention.
The internal dialogue isn’t just random thoughts or images in your head. It’s the whole process of the Eagle’s emanations being filtered through us(rough scheme):
Basically, it’s all the filters we use to assemble and sustain our world.
When the internal dialogue fully stops, that assembly process is raw. The world image collapses with it. The “world stops.” And when it collapses completely, perception can shift - and you begin to see fully.
Of course there are levels in between all of this. Stopping the ever talking to itself "mind" is already good enought to jump into hightened awareness and be able to stalk "properly".
Its is basically the perpetuation of the description of the world - even in a state of absence of chatter. Even the act of viewing a chair as a chair in a rational manner is also a form of internal dialogue, although a less draining one. Gazing exercises partly work by giving the brain a sight that easily lends itself to multiple descriptions. Choosing a non-ordinary description deepens inner silence. Its very difficult to do that when your inner voice inundates you with nonsense, so giving that a rest certainly would help.
I find weed lets me see but its a bastard’s curse at the same time. The ego still has too much resolve under the influence of weed. But it has been valuable to my life process (because I chose so, I suppose)
No wonder it is grey. I suggest to wean yourself off gradually.
I agree!
It always devolves into yet another piece of cheese to chase in the rat race
No, it is more muted because of the weed. I have a fan idea that it is because weed blocks out dreams, and you are seeing pieces of your dreaming body whenever you see a puff. But that is only an idea.
This is only an "it seems for me" anyways... I quit weed after a while doing sorcery.
You could swap "what" with "where."
I agree intuitively. Might you elaborate?
It agrees. The mind. That's all. If you ask someone what the mind is I'm sure there's all kinds of plausible stuff. But where. That's more of a thing the body can answer. What it is..it may be a salt shaker. But if I were a salt shaker I'd sure like to know where.
It's an involuntary focus on the "meaning" of a specific bundle of emanations in the dark sea, which prevents your assemblage point from moving outside the 1 foot diameter glow of your assemblage point, which encompases that specific bundle. Which is contained in the self-obsessed range of "me, me, me", oblivious to infinity which surrounds it. The involuntary urge comes from your own latent awareness stuck in past memories and in the environment, which recapitulation can free up. Making it easier to remove the internal dialogue.
Anything in your head. Its the ego trying to maintain control. Tricking the ego with not doings helps train the silence. If your focus on doing something different than auto pilot or known then its a not doing.
You could try breath and attention work. Theres a good explanation of the breathing and attention focusing to distract your inner dialogue in this video. Plus it has a lot of good knowledge relating to how and why the techniques work.