Symbolic Dissolution Therapy
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:10 pm
There is a practical meditative process that I have discovered over time with the process of trial and error. For all intents and purposes it can be called "Symbolic Dissolution Therapy". This meditative process does not necessarily result in a perfect peace but I have found it metaphorically 'dulls the sharp blade of life'.
The process goes as follows.
1. Pay attention to the transient nature of experience and observe its transient qualities.
2. Repeat a simple mantra interiorly while doing so that embodies this nature ("Let go", "This is passing", "This is being sacrificed", etc."
3. Let the experiences pass until one reaches a wall where a specific experience (a deep attachment or aversion) does not seem to pass.
4. Pay attention to this experience now and gain a deeper insight into its nature. Use this experience as a direction to emerge yourself in reality by facing it calmly. If one suffers from an absence of direction in life, facing this experience will give the opportunity for a deeper more profound sense of meaning.
5. This experience can be faced either in a life situation that occurs or address it by interacting with it through the imagination if it is a past or future conception. This experience is merely a symbol of the self. There is no time limit to this step, it can last a minute or for several years.
6. The eventual dissolution of this experience removes a symbolic layer of the self allowing one to gain a deeper degree of personal freedom by allowing one to more fluidly transition through life.
7. Continue this process, for life is a process of letting go of desires and cultivating an internal stillness and clarity. Find meaning by reducing layers of yourself.
Sometimes achieving the desire completes it.
Sometimes seeing its nature completes it.
Sometimes not being able to acquire it over a long period of time completes it as one is to exhausted to be driven by it.
Success or tragedy may also end it as this completes it.
There are a myriad of ways to eliminate desires, by completing them, but all of this is grounded in the act of paying attention to it. Completion of a desire is its dissolution for when a thing is complete it no longer progresses and ceases to be.
Desires are merely symbols of the self that direct our thoughts, feelings, words and deeds. They are prevalent when a deep or shallow imbalance occurs. The dissolution of this symbolic layer allows balance to be restored.
Thoughts?
The process goes as follows.
1. Pay attention to the transient nature of experience and observe its transient qualities.
2. Repeat a simple mantra interiorly while doing so that embodies this nature ("Let go", "This is passing", "This is being sacrificed", etc."
3. Let the experiences pass until one reaches a wall where a specific experience (a deep attachment or aversion) does not seem to pass.
4. Pay attention to this experience now and gain a deeper insight into its nature. Use this experience as a direction to emerge yourself in reality by facing it calmly. If one suffers from an absence of direction in life, facing this experience will give the opportunity for a deeper more profound sense of meaning.
5. This experience can be faced either in a life situation that occurs or address it by interacting with it through the imagination if it is a past or future conception. This experience is merely a symbol of the self. There is no time limit to this step, it can last a minute or for several years.
6. The eventual dissolution of this experience removes a symbolic layer of the self allowing one to gain a deeper degree of personal freedom by allowing one to more fluidly transition through life.
7. Continue this process, for life is a process of letting go of desires and cultivating an internal stillness and clarity. Find meaning by reducing layers of yourself.
Sometimes achieving the desire completes it.
Sometimes seeing its nature completes it.
Sometimes not being able to acquire it over a long period of time completes it as one is to exhausted to be driven by it.
Success or tragedy may also end it as this completes it.
There are a myriad of ways to eliminate desires, by completing them, but all of this is grounded in the act of paying attention to it. Completion of a desire is its dissolution for when a thing is complete it no longer progresses and ceases to be.
Desires are merely symbols of the self that direct our thoughts, feelings, words and deeds. They are prevalent when a deep or shallow imbalance occurs. The dissolution of this symbolic layer allows balance to be restored.
Thoughts?