Don't rush, let the fire burn slowly.
...In a hundred days you will see the result
Zhang San Feng, The Song of Silent Sitting
Hmm! I feel myself impatient lately for this fire of purification to run its course and burn out. It has been going on within me for many years and it is far from comfortable. I see, maybe not so clearly, but I do see the mess within that needs to be swept out. I see how that mess limits this Life experience; how it holds this human I call "me" back from expanding into true awareness of Self. Though it appears to be just a messy pile of cluttered junk when I look inside, I do see the limiting beliefs acting like old sticky chewing gum holding this samskara mess together, as they always pull more into their stickiness.
I have to get to those beliefs! I have to pull them from all that energy in there, bring them to the surface, examine them, question them, see what they have done to this life, envision a life without them and then let them go. Then I have to replace the holes they leave behind with beliefs that enhance life rather than diminish it.
I know that without the sticky beliefs that have held me back, the mess in here isn't going to miraculously sweep itself up...but it will untangle itself from the pile and fall into separate scattered pieces that are easy to vacuum or sweep up. Hmm!
How did someone, like me, end up creating a housekeeping analogy lol? Anyway.
I have been asking for a quicker clean up. I was brought back to Tai Chi. The above line promises that if one practices Tai Chi diligently for 100 days they will be purified. The hundred days are not yet up and I certainly feel something happening in my gut. It is very intense. So, I asked if I could or should add another short-cut solution to this process. Could getting through this big pile of samskara holding me back from experiencing Life in the way I believe all humans should experience it, be enhanced by the use of psychadelics or hypnotism?
I literally asked that question out loud and in writing to any creative force out there. As if on cue I found myself suddenly super intrigued by the power of "core beliefs" again. I found myself reminded of the power of hypnotism and intention in a myrid of ways over the last four days. ...podcasts will come on, posts have been randomly read from this site where I was talking about such things, the name or image of Paul McKenna or Richard Bandler seems to be randomly popping up everywhere and their books seem to end up in front of me instead of being on the book shelf where I last put them. I didn't catch on until this morning...."Oh...I am being given an answer maybe...I can get to the root of my trauma, which is the biggest samskara within me, and the creator of my core belief ....more quickly through hypnotism. I can begin by removing the sticky gum that binds all my samskaras together into one big, nasty knot. Hmm!
So, if belief can be so powerful, just stop for a moment and think of the most overwhelmingly wonderful things you could have or do if you take the belief that stops you from learning anything new quickly and easily, faster than you could ever suspect, and simply change it. How would you be if you could harness more of your brain's ability to alter its state, so that when you opened your eyes you created something absolutely wonderful-?
Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-Formation, pg 96
All is well.
