By McKenna, the writing style is really good. He doesn't come to the conclusion directly like Krishnam. Generally speaking, people need a long time to digest and connect.
Mckenna will transfer his profound enlightenment to an ordinary person, such as Lisa, a normal person. She worked hard and competed constantly, achieving one goal after another in life, until one day she saw a photo of a woman who committed suicide by jumping off a building and began to completely subvert her life.
Then tell the author's intention through Lisa's spiritual war stories.
There is no lie that you can't kill. So, how do we fight ourselves? Did we kill our nonexistent selves?
Emotional energy:
This book repeatedly mentions emotional energy. When we are in chaos, we are consuming our own energy, but usually there are all kinds of persistence behind chaos. When we are no longer persistent, we will no longer consume emotional energy, and our horizons will expand, so that we can see more and more extensive modes of operation, and there are modes in the modes.
A hard shell formed by solidified emotional energy. To achieve any real growth and development, the first and most important thing is to knock off these hard shells.
When we stop supplying energy to it, it begins to melt. This is what I really look like; The state of self-separation is also where we use emotional energy. We live in our own hard shell, just like a position, and we need endless emotional energy.
I like Krishnamurti's sentence: "In fact, what you need is not to be free from fear. When you try to get rid of fear, you are actually fighting fear, and any form of resistance can't end. What we really need to do is not to escape, control, suppress or face fear in any form, but to understand fear-this means seeing it, understanding it and directly contacting it. "
Interestingly, while criticizing these masters, the author quoted many of their words.
Express intentions through wishes and actions.
I like the author's description of retreat and experience:
The only spiritual practice is observation: seeing the truth clearly. This is a spiritual self-analysis, a tool to help us see things clearly and let our brains play to the extreme. In the process of witnessing, you should keep a little distance so that you can not only live your life, but also observe it. This is not a reflection like keeping a diary, but it happens in the present, every moment. Just like this moment, I am sitting here talking to you, but I am also in the witness mode of an impartial observer. I'm not exactly a character in the play, I'm also an audience. I know very well that I am performing on the stage, and it is a bit alienated to watch my performance.
Observe yourself as you observe others.
The key is observation, awareness and vigilance, which means staying awake. First of all, you should learn to keep this transcendental awareness, and do it deliberately, a little at a time, and get familiar with it gradually.
The role of a witness?
First of all, it helps you to form a habit of being alert at any time and anywhere and focusing on the present, which is a good habit that needs to be cultivated very much. Keep practicing the transition from role to actor so that it can happen smoothly and will not affect your performance. Second, train you to keep your distance from the role you play. There is a you behind the role you project into this world. As long as you always agree with your position on the stage, you can't make progress.
How to manifest?
It is not only about manifesting things and realizing wishes, but also about good or bad luck, downstream and countercurrent, and about the smooth development or obstacles of things. This is not willful, nor accidental, but a process of seeing patterns, and then we can see those patterns and run with them. If you can perceive the outline of this process, feel the relationship between yourself and it, and see the reason why it works or stops at every opportunity, you can operate it in reverse, analyze it, observe it, have a deeper understanding of its operation mode, and let it play a more important role in your life. In this way, you can disassemble the structure of self, because self is always an obstacle, trying to control us against the natural flow of life.
The difference between prayer and manifestation?
The key to prayer is not to change the law, but to be in harmony with the law, not to be eager for things to be different, but to be integrated into the current state of things.
Prayer is concrete, and manifestation is not directed at a specific goal. It's not just about getting what you want, but about everything you do, the way you do things, who you are and how you behave in this world.
Manifestation is about how to shape the dream state and live freely in the seamless integration of self and non-self. It eliminates the boundary between dreamer and dream.
Have a wish, release it, and then let it go.
I really want to write a lot, but I decided to end this note.
The so-called awakening is to realize that life is meaningless, it doesn't matter what you do, everything is empty and you are chasing the wind. We will all die in the end, as if we had never lived.
Everyone is an island, completely on their own. This is a one-man show. You are an orphan.
The ending is a bit exaggerated, but it is the source of real courage behind it. Since everything is in vain and meaningless, life is actually a stage play. Just live your life as you want.