R4B Mastery: Managing One's Vibration
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While recognizing the certainty of impermanence, consider two key questions about our continuously unfolding life journeys:
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Is it possible to optimize this life journey for the mitigation of dissatisfaction, discomfort and suffering?
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and if so, what are the essential elements to include in our daily coping with living as we unfold from one moment to the next?
There is much to unpack in these questions because they target the fundamental challenges inherent in living, and yes, even in dying. Two and a half millenia ago, there arose a prince who renounced his privileged life and set out to discover the answers to these questions. The answers that came to him are applicable for us in these uncertain tumultuous times. He shared his insights after deep and prolonged meditation. He became known as “the enlightened one”, aka the Buddha.
He might be considered this world’s first psychologist, because the answers he shared began with the meditative requirement to sit quietly and observe one’s own mind. He advised using these observations to recognize our human tendency to cling to attachments [wanting, desire, beliefs] and to let go of them by shifting awareness to the breath. From that vantage point he and his subsequent followers identified the components of what they called the noble eightfold path [LINK] to mitigate and eventually bring about the end of personal suffering. This gradual path became known as Theravadan Buddhism, which has been most clearly and eloquently clarified by Thich Nhat Han in his many books and teachings.
The Buddha’s message was eventually taken to Tibet. It merged with an expanded array of practices. These included a variety of techniques that could be used to focus a practitioner’s mindful awareness on a single point of concentration. Repetitive practice of intense one pointed concentration techniques can enable momentary states of emptiness without thought or feeling. Tibetan meditation masters speak and write about the knowing that appears when primordial wisdom arises from such states of emptiness.
The dharma wanderer has written previous posts here, here and here about concentration techniques and the knowing that he has unexpectedly experienced in critical life moments. This guidance was directly applicable to making a specific choice in a specific life event. Tibetan masters call this the relative world. They say this world is impermanent and illusory. The dharma wanderer groks the impermanent aspect, but the illusory aspect has been a cloudy idea, harder to grasp with the rational or even intuitive mind.
It is this nondual union between the two worlds that may offer a solution to the personal experience of suffering.
Enough of this for now. It has taken years for the dharma wanderer to grok these aspects of a rich tradition that has existed and morphed over two and a half millenia. And for any Christians who have managed to last this long with this post, be advised there is documentary evidence by the BBC that Jesus travelled to India and Tibet during what are known as his “lost years” from age 13 to about 30. On these travels he learned meditation techniques and practices that he surely taught to his disciples. It is noteworthy in the Tibetan scriptural history he was recognized as a healer and teacher. An interesting question for Christians to consider is the possibility that Jesus could have been an adept practioner of meditation techniques the he learned in the east.
This history is not included in the traditional Judeo-Christian bible. There have been seven Councils of Nicea over a period of more than 460 years. Their objectives included decisions about what would be included and excluded from the bible. Some scriptural texts were declared heretical and destroyed. Other texts were to be included. A third category was to be held in secret for those most high in the hierarchy.
The answer from the union of science and mysticism is that intention has vibratory effects beyond the individuals who are radiating that intention, whether they are aware of it or not. When the personal intention is resistance, that reaction amplifies the opposing vibe that is being resisted. The vibe being resisted might often be characterized as a will to power.
This is not a message to roll over and submit, although in some severe cases there may not be any acceptable alternative. It is, instead, to mobilize one’s energy for wise action. This begins with a shift in view from external to internal. Taking a patient look within one’s own brain/mind/consciousness. If negative emotions and thoughts are present, the objective is to dissolve the negative vibes. How to accomplish this? You might have correctly guessed — mindful awareness and one pointed concentration. These are clarified at the R4B website in two sections: The Method and Articles. As indicated in earlier posts, these are two sides of the attentional coin that can be spent to reach for guidance.
Clarifying one’s honorable intention is an important early step in the process of manifestation.
It is a truism that when the will to power is at the center of one’s brain/mind radar screen and there is a fully developed and comprehensive strategic plan for the execution of that intention, implementation can be rapid and effective. This reflects the current state of affairs at a macro level.
This begins with awareness that arises in consciousness and is converted to conscious vibratory intention. This intention can be expressed aloud in such a manner that it expands into the absolute world, and will eventually be reflected back as guidance for action in the relative world.
Tibetan masters say time is an illusion. While that may admittedly be hard to grasp, the latest research in quantum physics agrees with this. Patience is a virtue. As is commitment to purpose. Likewise, beneficent intention for all beings and the world.
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