I’m wondering if we can describe what the mental process is that differentiates between the 2, why one is mentally stressed and the other isn’t.
The ‘intellectual’ can be so filled with his/ her stuff that there’s little or no ‘space’ (or interest) to see what they have become/are moment to moment …in this way of ‘watching’ that K has brought up?
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Why is the neurotic space full and the other space being allowed to empty?
Why is there awareness and letting go in one, and neuroticism in the other?
I don’t see it that way. We all fall into different ‘types’ broadly intellectual, emotional, physical with different ‘mixtures’ of those three. It doesn’t matter which has the strongest ‘center of gravity’ ….you are what you are. And we’re all a bit ‘disturbed’ some a lot, some not so much. He’s saying if the imbalances/neuroses are not too great , the brain can watch itself “without condemnation or justification”! A “deep watching” patiently , eagerly, sustained over time.
I is a process of constant improvisation sustaining the illusion of being something other than sleight.
We are all just making it up as we go along? Nature too? Even the Gods?
If so, on who’s orders? Or did I decide to make it all in this particular configuration? (ie. am I making the decisions?)
By “we all” I mean we humans.
At some point in our evolution we realized our capacity for thought was such that we could deceive ourselves. It may have begun with learning how to lure animals into traps to kill or domesticate them.
In what way is this (catching animals) deceit?
We take advantage of what the animal does not know or forgets to be mindful of. Piglets, for instance, go heedlessly into traps that older pigs know better to avoid.
Neurotic : not being able to let go of what I see and know. Because it feels so real and important. Neuroticism stems from the belief that I am experiencing truth. And that these feelings are so important and central that they must be obeyed and satisfied at all costs.
Balance comes from seeing the whole movement of experience. Not what is projected but our relationship to the projection.
Don’t you mean, “Not only what is projected”?
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Neurotic : not being able to let go of what I see and know. Because it feels so real and important. Neuroticism stems from the belief that I am experiencing truth. And that these feelings are so important and central that they must be obeyed and satisfied at all costs.
Balance comes from seeing the whole movement of experience. Not only what is projected but our relationship to the projection.