| Discover how to break free of mind delusions. | | | | senses, it becomes filtered through your thought |
| Read on and learn how to use this deceptively | | | | patterns about it. You've taken a mental step |
| simple practice to dramatically increase your | | | | back from the actual experience into a sensory |
| awareness of what's really going on. | | | | matrix of your own design. |
| It's common to find meditations that dive you | | | | Empedocles was an ancient Greek philosopher, |
| deeper and deeper into your own imagination, | | | | student of the Pythagorean mystery school and |
| using visualisations and inner world adventuring to | | | | logician who left behind a series of philosophical |
| expand on your mental faculties and communicate | | | | poetry including this intriguing filter busting |
| with the deeper parts of your mind. | | | | meditation. |
| However, oftentimes these can simply serve to | | | | You might find this to be one of the simplest yet |
| reinforce your own perspective and entertain as | | | | most challenging meditations to sustain and it does |
| much as enlighten. | | | | requires some concentration but it gives you |
| The ancient Taoist view of enlightenment was to | | | | some very useful and interesting mental |
| remove the obstacles to clear perception rather | | | | advantages as you'll discover. |
| than adding yet more distorted thinking, giving you | | | | The practice itself is simply this - place all your |
| a more accurate view of what's happening. | | | | attention of literally just what you're experiencing |
| Count Korzybski, founder of General Semantics | | | | through your senses. All your senses, all at once. |
| espoused a similar view as well - using language | | | | Notice simultaneously what you're seeing, hearing, |
| instead of Taoist meditation. Korzybski | | | | feeling, tasting and smelling all at the same time. |
| recommended eliminating the use of the word 'is' | | | | As soon as you're attention drops one sense |
| from speech and thought. Nothing 'is' anything else. | | | | channel, strive to click it back into place so that |
| Things do what they're doing, as soon as we say | | | | you enter into increasingly aware states of mind |
| something 'is' something else you distort and | | | | but with a very clean focus on your immediate |
| abstract your perception of that thing. | | | | environment. |
| No longer does it simply appear before your | | | | Sound easy? Give it a go! |