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Living in the "Zone"

I hope you've digested the turkey, stuffing and wine Hostel. Apart from a moment of amazement on hearing death of Benazir Bhutto this morning, my happiness continues. I'm more or less steadily since yesterday in the "zone". You know, this mental state often found in athletes of high level and which corresponds, according Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the flow , a feeling of ease mingled with a feeling of confidence shrill. You might call this the presence.

As my friend the fact Renart here on his blog, I suggest you begin with three excellent books where I got this new approach to life. I will continue on the issue of the "zone" in a future post, just to experiment for a few days and in different contexts.

First, a classic
Krishnamurti, The Book of meditation and life.

Not quite accessible to all intellects, but at the same time, I'd say it should mark the unconscious of everyone enough to make awareness. Except I can understand why I took so long (years) before I got seriously into it. Themes: suffering, desire, love, death, from a perspective that I call deconstruction of the ego and the prison of the mind.

second book, another must for researchers nonsense:
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, the Book of the Way and Virtue.

Again, should want to start, because we addressed the question of meaning in a way so in tune with the linearity that is accustomed our minds. Fuck it head quite quickly, but it is very short. As Krishnamurti, understanding is by infusion. Place the book after reading it is like putting boiling water over the tea bag. Infuse some time and it becomes clearer.


Christmas Surprise

My girlfriend has left lying around (a big word) the next book I'll make a presentation on the bedside table for several weeks. I say hang out, but she read it in small bite (having already read). I should not be due before but I had no interest in even reading the summary behind both the coverage left me indifferent. Things have changed, by pure chance. These days, I'm not my night. I found myself unable to get back to sleep after waking up yesterday morning caused by I know not what, and that's where I made the jump.
I told myself, and I kid you not: "this book is quite like a sleeping pill, it can not hurt."
Half an hour later, I was like I was living enlightenment.

(drum roll) ...

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.

The author, a being of light that looks a bit like a leprechaun on Extasy (I swear), makes us aware of the benefits of waging a no thank you to our minds. What he tells us, with my word, a verb and an accessible concept of "FAQs" is a bit like if there were two people in us. In my words, I would say gasoline, is what you deeply. Then the ego, to be sure the personality of the body existing in space time and spending all that time to perform analysis and calculations to explain everything. The mistake we would all would be to identify with the ego, which has no other interest than to preserve the envelope (hence my name "personality or identity of the body.

Here Example from the book to explain in simple words how we can feel this concept. In a moment of deep depression, the author says:

" I can not live with myself " . This thought kept coming to mind. Then, suddenly, I realized how much she was weird. " Am I one or two? If I do not live with myself, then there must be two me: I and with me that I can not live. Maybe one of them is real ?. "Subsequently, Tolle is what might be called a collapse of the ego. Succeeding in silencing the incessant chatter of the mind simply by focusing the babble is, it gives his mind and discover the bliss of the moment.

As there right now. I write, I am warm, I live this moment in a certain clarity, and I do not think about anything except that every word "fate" of my fingers. I do not wonder what you might think, or if the general idea of the ticket will. I do that writing, and if I do not think the past (from the second that just flow), or the future (what sentence will pursue it), I can be happy. The ressassage and / or anticipation can only generate unhappiness, anger, anxiety, etc.. But at the same time, the ego exists for and through space-time.

Other highly relevant excerpts:

" Essentially, the mind is a machine survival. Attack and defense to its "congeners", collection, storage and analysis of information, this is what the mind excels, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, they know it or not, create from a state of mental emptiness, an inner stillness. Then it is the mind that shapes the impulse or creative intuition. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs occurred in moments of mental peace. "

" If you really want to know your mind, observe the emotion, or better yet, feel it in your body because it will always give you the correct time. So apparently there is a conflict between the two, thought then that the emotion lie tell the truth. "

For those who are interested to shut the mouth of this little conversation we incessant mental back into the past to understand the anguish in the future, you can find a long excerpt of the book here.

In my case ... well, I reach the one minute silence at a time. And every time is like an hour of pure well-being. ... Imagine a week living . That said, understand although Tolle tells us not to become homeless and to spend his life watching the snowflakes fall. Just that ... try not to think for a minute. Zero, niet, flatline. It is sometimes harder than passing a lace through the eye of a needle sewing standard. At least, it took me 34 years, but here I am tripping. Once one enters the territory of the "no-thought", lucidity, clarity, take over. It's even better, right?

While you ponder on it a few minutes, I push myself to go not to think about all this. If this step is where my text that you want (the "I push myself), I would recommend" In Praise of the leak, "Henri Laborit. Hehe.

And to be consistent, I do not reread.