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Anthem
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 Posted - Sep 30 2006 : 11:13:17 AM
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Hi one and all,
Here's a fun exercise to try when you are not too busy. It takes a little imagination but is very rewarding. The more you are able to completely put yourself into this and really pretend, the more you can get out of it.
It is very simple, just vividly imagine at some point in your day, that "God" spoke to you and told you that this is the last 15 minutes of your life. If you really get into it, you may even feel some fear. Go with it until the end and enjoy the last 15 minutes of your life!
Personally I like to choose my drive home and time it so that I reach home with enough time left to enjoy familiar surroundings.
Hopefully you will find this as rewarding as I did.
A
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snake
United Kingdom
277 Posts |
Posted - Sep 30 2006 : 2:26:57 PM
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| Just scares the **** out of me!:) |
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Richard
United Kingdom
857 Posts |
Posted - Sep 30 2006 : 2:31:24 PM
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Noooo not for me either 
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Kyman
530 Posts |
Posted - Sep 30 2006 : 2:58:58 PM
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It is a neat trick.
On the same note, I often try to imagine myself as just being born. Helps to jostle the habitual mind-states that modern life can promote at times.
It's all about flipping that reference point upside down. Whatever it takes to shake loose the fermented past from our mind and center it in the now of our awareness. |
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david_obsidian
USA
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Posted - Sep 30 2006 : 3:20:54 PM
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I love it!
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Yoda
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 11:02:02 AM
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Anthem,
What if you get stuck in traffic? 
I'd like to think that death really is the experience of meditation.
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david_obsidian
USA
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Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 1:59:13 PM
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Yoda said:
What if you get stuck in traffic?
It doesn't change the exercise at all. Not in the least. In fact, metaphorically, we are always stuck in traffic in our spirits, whether or not we are in body. If you do this exercise well while stuck in traffic in body, you just might in spirit get out of being stuck in traffic....
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Yoda
USA
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Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 2:10:39 PM
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| dude. |
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david_obsidian
USA
2602 Posts |
Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 2:47:17 PM
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Sorry!  Lemme put my spectacles back on here.
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 3:44:54 PM
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| But if I'm stuck in traffic, I would leave my car, take my clothes off and play in the stream beside the road. If I do too many of these, society frowns on them. . . |
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Anthem
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Posted - Oct 01 2006 : 5:36:57 PM
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Interesting feedback. I feel the same way David did, I really loved the exercise.
Not that it is for everyone, but for those of you who feel a lot of fear in this situation; this might present an opportunity for being with this fear, exploring/ embracing its message and finding much freedom from it. The more intense the fear, the more liberation it can yield for you. Remember it is only a thought that is making you feel the fear, which thought is it and why and more importantly is this thought true?
Of course the thought doesn't mean it is going to happen, it's the virtual reality of the mind and not actually happening so it can't really hurt you. I personally find it fun and very rewarding to explore myself this way.
Hilarious as usual Ether!
A
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15 minutes until "death" exercise
