a very dense train of thouhgts kept assailing meditation this morning
at one point I had to take the decision to relax
concentrate on breathing
which was starting to contract in the lower abdomen
and simply make reminders for the moment
said to my self:

ok,
so thoughts keep popping on and chaining together
I'll take note of them and promise not to forget
and put them aside for now,
in that new drawer I just made
for further treatment
but mind has got to quiet first
...

soft technology
purification
affirmation -> refuge

...
thoughts are voidness
they come from voidness
and return to voidness as you let them float by

thoughts are no different than your own mind
yet you can't reduce the mind to a thought
or can we? (in the eleventh dimension?)

I once had that vision that learning to practice a saddhana
was like installing an Operating System on a computer
without the OS your computer is of not much use
as like, you inherited of an operating system
but no one really told you that it was so

or you didn't want to know
or you only knew partially,
using the most handy functions that you learned intuitively
the user-friendly ones,
that helped you obtain what you so much desired in the material world
but how much do we use of the OS on a current basis
(and is that OS the most appropriate to our uses? but that's another question)


technology
the greeks made up that word, combining the meaning of techne:craft and logia:saying
first used to point mostly to machines or machine systems (hard-technology)
it later proved useful to describe
the use we have of strategies or problem-solving methods (soft-technology)
soft technology has also evolved as information-technology

so
at one point,
one can understand in the various processes used through meditation
and especially the visualisation of the tantric grounds and paths
such use of a soft technology

it that aspect,
no judgement applies on wether or not technology is re-gressive or pro to human evolution

...
Terma
through the tibetan buddhism history,
an important number of teachers have hidden messages in texts
and texts in different hidden places
to be discovered by a terton at an auspicious time
keys to discover the messages were sometimes delivered through dreams or insights
so what were these people exploring the afterlife for?

Sometimes, as we read a book, words seem to become alive,
talking, it seems, directly to us, delivering more
than what their casual sentence driven order offers
sketching various levels of hidden meanings
intricately weaven through the loom
and you suddenly feel connected
enlightenned

those treasures were called termas
maybe the ground for such termas now is here
as our books become threads woven by one and another

and the meaning gets burried as before,
under the proliferation of intents
until you get a light


synchronicity
overwhelming the quantity of help received on the board
when keeping the opening, not contracting, having no preconceptions no longings...
the only fulfilment of joy expanding as a gauge...

and the answer is often not only in the words used
ideas unfolding simultaneously each one at it's own pace
jumping from one dimension to another as they surf the threads

the synchronicity of having suddenly an old friend on the phone,
understanding afterwards that the message he was delivering
was not the one he thought

praise the use for a joy expanding gauge
or is downright fun a synonym for joy?

...
you might call it spirituality for the moment
or spiritual quest, or afterlife exploration
or whatever, for fear of using too connetated words
until one day it's own meaning being contaminated
one other would think of post-modern religiosity
they are only tags anyway meant to be removed
prior to access content

...
I discovered Bruce's books in a similar way as he discovered Monroe's. Visiting my usual used books library, saw the serie's title "Exploring the AfterLife" once thinking: another book about life after death... ) At my next visit the book was still there and I wondered if it understood the buddhist's approach of beeing only a state of beeing... It's only at the third encounter that the book followed me and brought me (via internet) to discover MI and Robert Monroe's books. That's where I finally learned that what I had experienced at various occasions previously was not a pathology, it had been explored and documented, and others were living it also...

...
I left the buddhist community with whom I was tryng to melt, telling them that I finally understood. I told them that books talked to me. Left the community but not the technology. Simply had to enlarge the scope of the embraceable. It was like a signal coming from inside.

That's when I found the Gateway Affirmation
I liked it immediately
Learned it by heart so I could use it anywhere
those kind of luggages are the one I'm trying to get more of these days
and it found a place in that inside room I have (not many people know about that room)
just beside the taking refuge affirmation

and one day I couldn't escape from dressing the equation:
let's say Buddha is your mind,
the Dharmah is the operating system,
and the sangha the community of users

see it?
when affirming that you are more than your physical body
you acknowlege the presence of the mind
when saying that you want to expand, explore, understand... the use of the OS
when you have in mind those who follow you (mahayanna)
and ask the help, guidance and protection of those whose wisdom... you are in the sangha

and to me it all made sense

one could say that those are only beliefs
and to rely on facts is more accurate
but when does a belief become a fact?
if all is voidness, quanta particles dancing all over the place
and Ken Wilber reminds you of Descarte's mistake and of the three eyes of the soul
...

thanks Bruce for the opportunity of sharing it all

the relief of a B7 to Em chord

focus on the moment
getting inside while it slowly dissolves
becomes infinity
a road to enlightment

you never really get enlightenned
rather the other way around,
enlightenment gets you
once you have submitted your self to purification
progressively revealing your inner-self
as the former lessens, becomes thinner
stretches toward transparency

Here's some more thanks, Jazel 

Your way of communicating and your involvement with words' meanings is so very refreshing!
For one example, I knew there must be a term for phrases that ignite our spirits with spiritual energy and newly revealed meaning, but I certainly didn't know the term was 'terma.'    My soul has found alot of termas right here on this website !

Using new technology for analogies for spiritual processes is also very helpful. I'm going to put yur post out where my husband can find it and hope it speaks to him.

Here we frequently bemoan the need for more words and methods to explain the spiritual developments we're experiencing--- and here you are, answering that wish!

Many thanks, Betson