SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What practice serves you well in developing attentiveness? What does entering reality mean to you? Can you share a personal experience that illustrates entering, becoming and experiencing reality?
Stage of getting to silence
1. Listen rather than talking
2. Select quiet over talking or listening
3. Discern the"talking" in silence
4. Listen for the sounds of silence
5. Notice your anxiety and impatience with silence
6. Just enjoy deeper silence
During my daily morning Yoga exercises I become aware of my wandering mind, still processing my past life experiences, and my eternal mind - the mind that knows time, space and self as arbitrary concepts.
A flurry of dogmatic, prescriptive and impractical advice seems to flow from one error of judgment: "but the conventional methods for reviving ourselves in the midst of life's conflicts only partially do the job. They fall short of showing us the true nature of reality. [...]"
Consider: If the conventional methods for reviving ourselves in the midst of life's conflicts (good humour, good food, old wine in good company of old friends, great sex...) appear to be adequate for 'the common low-life humans', shouldn't you (John Coleman & followers) consider yourself very inadequate to need "silent awareness" and wait indefinitely for it to come to you?