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The Direct Path to Clear Consciousness.

 

Chapter 01 – “Freedom from Negative Emotions”

 

Contents:

01-01) General information about negative emotions (NEs) and freedom from them.

01-02) Eradication and suppression of NEs.

01-03) Initial steps in investigation and eradication of NEs.

01-04) The practice of recurring perception of NEs.

01-05) Other practices of the NEs eradication.

01-06) The practice of returning attention (RA).

01-07) Common mistakes.

01-08) The practice of consolidation.

01-09) Satisfaction, “nothing-is-happening”, light-grey state.

 

01-01) Day after day, minute after minute people experience negative emotions  (“NEs”): jealousy, self-pity, fear, irritation, discontent, resentment, fury, perplexity, affront, malice, envy, apprehension, worry, contempt, repulsion, shame, revenge, apathy, idleness, depression, melancholy, disappointment, greediness and etc, etc.

The Practice of Direct Path (PDP), as described in this book, consists of consecutive replacement of the unwelcome perceptions into the ones you wish. It is necessary to experience the joyful wish (i.e. an anticipated wish) for such substitution of unwelcome perceptions, and cultivate it persistently and firmly until newly created habit overpowers the old one, which had been created mechanically. I call this path “direct” precisely because the only significant condition necessary to travel this route is having a joyful wish to change the perception revealed at the point.  

While practicing DP the person achieves the full eradication of NEs that he has perceived, he discovers that along with the strong and identified NEs he regularly experiences a large number of minor NEs.  Without exaggeration we can say that nearly every perception has a diminutive splash of NEs (most often it is discontent, negative attitude, anxiety), followed by a hardly observed “tail” feeding an already strong and an overly condensed background. All this altogether creates an overwhelmingly poisoned atmosphere. The consequences are terrible and catastrophic.

First of all it leads to what is called an “ageing”, and it starts not at 40, but at 22 to 25, and it is very rapid. The skin not only loses its elasticity, but is unpleasant to touch and to look at, bodies and faces become flabby, ugly, drawn, fat or vice versa are affected by unpleasant thinness.  Odors become strong and displeasing. The health deteriorates continuously, but this is a long process and the person is unaware of these subtle and very unpleasant changes and in the mornings he wakes up jaded, in the evenings goes to bed as if in a delirium. He is withered, groans, he needs more and more stimulants, like coffee, mechanical sex, primitive impressions. And have a look at our old men and women. Forget all the political correctness and be honest as much as you are possible of. It is a terrible picture. Their bodies and faces are a material embodiment of NE that they have experienced during their lifetime and continue to do so.  This is so prevalent that people find it natural. They accept old age is an unavoidable loss of common sense, it is unattractive, dull, aggressive and full of suffering.  But in India, Nepal, Tibet and Sri Lanka you can see very old people and how much they differ from ours! Their faces, voices and manners are attractive, their old bodies do not look ugly and their eyes sometimes literally charm.

Secondly, I am totally sure that most diseases or even all of them are caused only by NEs. According to the contemporary religion viruses and microbes cause people’s illnesses, but I know for sure that those viruses and microbes ruin bodies of only those people, who especially are subjected to NEs. More than that, it’s not hard to track the conformity between certain illnesses and the type of dominant NE. Those who practice DP and achieve greater and greater degrees of freedom from NEs, sometimes have reoccurring splashes of the old habit to experience NEs and they notice surprisingly that something unimaginable happens to the body. It aches a little on and off and is even definitely sore in some places, feels heavy, inert, tired, uneasy, and all this is resulting from just some half an hour to an hour of feeling negative and only after few remaining NEs!  These are the moments when it is especially clear, that if you do not eradicate NEs, you are continually unwell. People regularly experience these or those NEs either as bright splashes or “weak” negative background (NB) of uneasiness, anxiety, discontentment, self-pity, sadness, etc., and their bodies are continually cruelly suppressed by this poison.

Thirdly, it’s not only the body that NEs are ruining, they also destroy fully the capability to have joyful wishes, clarity of mind, enlightened perceptions (EPs), affection, sense of beauty, aspiration, serenity, joyfulness of creativity, fondness, admiration, anticipation… NEs transform a person into a living dead. For many years longer he can wander on earth, decomposing little by little, being alive on the outside and having nothing alive on the inside for a long time. It also means that the door for the journey of the mind is implacably shut in the face of the man, the door to new discoveries and enlightened perceptions.

I emphasize, that no spiritual practice, no yoga and meditations, no prayers and prostrations lead you anywhere if you do not try in the first instance to achieve full elimination from NEs and continuous experience of EPs. Nothing is possible while you have NEs. Eradication of NEs and the discovery of the world of EPs in yourself is the path to the incredible journey no matter what spiritual practice you have chosen.

I find that any sincere aspiration to the EPs leads you quickly more or less to a bright or a brighter result whether you are a buddhist, krishnia, orthodox or whatever. You may worship god in any form or believe some formless god; you may be an atheist, Darwinist, esoteric, tantric, some ancient temple follower or the follower of a newly created sect.  But if you sincerely aspire to EPs and uncompromisingly decline NEs and dogmas, if you do not accept in any way NEs and dogmatism, if you indulge in any practice aimed at experiencing EPs and to stop NEs, then the results come up and your life will get more interesting and full. But encouraging, justifying NEs, or self-cheating, when you just pretend that you do not have NEs is a dead end and it is advancing the way to dementia and intensive suffering.

If society does not have an uncompromising policy regarding NEs, it will never live peacefully, no matter how complicated the law is and how stringent the punishment, whatever devices and mechanisms are invented. The Community of PDP practitioners, “snouts”, is a unique example of the community of a new type, it is very stable, as long as there are simply no inner forces capable of destroying it, as any impulse of aggression, resentment, self-pity, greediness, arrogance or inferiority and so on, are immediately subjected to an eradication, or, as minimum, to an attempt of an immediate elimination. Consequently, fondness, wish of EPs both in yourself and others, devotion, affection, compassion and so on are rapidly evolving.  Some communities, even though they do not set a task of eliminating NEs and dogmatism, but still approve of PDP and support the snouts aspirations, they are remarkably peace loving (please do not confuse with defenseless and infantile) and stable.

The Earth you live on is above all the world of NEs, and this is not an exaggeration. They are revealed in so many instances and are so tightly intertwined in our lives, that sometimes NEs seem to be the only existing emotions and all you are able to do is to refine, complicate or vary them, connect and twist with each other, thus making them multilayered and intensive. NEs surround you from everywhere, they are imposed and cultivated. I do not even speak about such obvious phenomena like the cult of violence in movies and the news, or open any “feature” book considered to be profound and good reading, there you will find “refined” NEs, strong NEs, complicated NEs, and if the reader acquires a complex of NEs shuffled with positive emotions (PEs), then this is the reason to find the book “great”. Well, where can the books about EPs come from? To describe the EPs one must have this experience and strive to strengthen it by any means. It is impossible just to create them in your mind, this is why there are only a few books of this kind, like all works of Castaneda, Taisha Abelar, Florinda Donner, Christopher Isherwood’s “Ramakrishna and his Disciples”, Satprem’s “Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness”, “Mahamudra” of Takpo Tashi Namgyal and Dalai Lama, Je Tsong Khapa’s “Lam rim”, “Krishnamurti’s notebook»,  “Yoga Sutras” Patanjali, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche’s “Rainbow Painting”, Tensin Wangyal’s “Wonders of the Natural Mind”, Evans-Wentz’s “Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa”.

One of the worst mistakes is people think that it’s not them who are choosing NEs, they are “forced” to experience them by other people and circumstances. This is one hundred percent wrong, and people believing in this concept are totally helpless, even those, that want to get rid of NEs, or at least some of them. I affirm on the basis of my own experience and the experience of other DP practitioners, that whether you have NEs or not, depends only on you and on your efforts to get over this terrible habit.

The joyful wish accompanied with anticipation to change the circumstances is totally compatible with the practice of NEs eradication in the current circumstances with clear understanding, that it is not the environment that causes NEs, but people are just used to such an experience of NEs within the given circumstances. This is why it is possible to eradicate completely NEs associated with the given situation and experience EPs, and at the same time joyfully wish to change the situation and make every effort to do so.

There are no circumstances that can create obstructions for practicing. The less you welcome the situation, the easier NEs show up, and it gives the chance to practice especially intensive elimination and achieve a brighter result. As a result a practitioner encounters even the least welcome situations with admiration, determination and anticipation (see chapter “Stalking” for details). If you are in an aggressive environment, you can perfect the elimination of NEs.  If you are in a comfortable environment, you can train your effort for elimination of complacency and dullness. You have ideal conditions for practicing in any circumstances as long as you live. At the same time there comes a new attitude to the circumstances, unlike the chaotic accumulation of events, but something lively and responsive.

Is it possible to be free of NEs? People so hopelessly stuck in them, that even the idea itself of getting rid of NEs causes irritation.  They imagine themselves without NEs and feel perplexed of how can they live: are they to turn into a senseless block of wood? They are so addicted to NEs that cannot even think of anything outside these emotions, though many of them have had short splashes of weak reverberations of EPs, especially in early childhood. 

Ask any person whether he feels negative. He will reply “certainly” I do sometimes.  The word “certainly” reflects his firm conviction that otherwise is impossible. And the word “sometimes” is a self-cheating, because people have NEs or NB continually, not from time to time.  The stronger the habit of experiencing NEs, the less a person is aware of them and soon the moment arrives when he has a wild splash of aggression with a heart attack, which is recognized as a NE, but all other times this person thinks he does not have NEs. The degree of how deep people are in NEs is enormous and inexpressible. 99,99% of all time people experience more or less strong NEs or NB, from time to time these are interrupted by PEs – nothing can survive in this toxic environment.  But even PEs are a poor consolation, as they are the opposite side of NEs and they intoxicate just as much, because they include pleasure over possession (whether it is attention, or things, or power), mischievous gloating, self-complacency, complacency, narcissism, feeling of self-importance (FSI), contempt, pride and others. Besides that PEs are not compatible with EPs, they also provoke stronger NEs, because, for example, the stronger FSI of a person, the easier it is to hurt him, the more threats to his self-conceitedness that he is aware of, the more often he is displeased, angry, hurt and aggressive. Sometimes EPs add to PEs and sometimes PEs compensate NEs effect (e.g. complacency compensates self-complacency), and then there comes a moment of relative freedom from NEs, allowing some reverberations of EPs to get through, but they are too weak and can disappear with time completely.

NEs are toxic, they are a narcotic addiction. People die from them, but still they receive some “pleasure” from them, and if they try to get off the needle, withdrawals come immediately with the fear of freedom as well.  People get “impressions” and galvanize thinking this is life.   “Impressions” are PE. Anger towards the enemy is accompanied by gloating when a person thinks of revenge. Grief over a loss goes hand in hand with the satisfaction that others will feel sorry for you and pay attention to you, this is why NEs are seen as having some value as the way to receive PEs. The very idea of elimination causes fear of losing those PEs, hence self-pity, skepticism, and even aggression. How far gone should a person be to clutch for NEs as means to feel “alive”! A pleasure from NEs is the “pleasure” from eating toxins followed by a very bad feeling, then later relief. The stronger the poison the higher the contrast with the following relief, this is why people intentionally cultivate NEs as they cannot have EPs and don’t even dream of them because they got used to the idea that life is dull and monotonous.  At the age from 25 to 30 people already start waiting for the death as a rescue from complete boredom, NEs and illnesses, thus they program their ageing and disintegration.

But still freedom is possible. I offer a practice that leads to this freedom. Overpowering NEs is the very first step which opens boundless spaces of conditions. There are people admitting that it is possible to decrease the power of NEs, but they do not believe it is possible to do so by applying their own efforts. They try to find a “big red button” (BRB) – they push it and sufferings disappear.  In their quests for the button they practice yoga, breathing exercises, sit in different postures, hum mantras, march, sing hymns and so on, they make whatever possible but not the efforts to stop NEs and “jump” into EPs. Certain NEs can be indeed decreased temporarily, but for a short period and with little or no effect, sooner or later the attention sneaks off and comes back to the same NEs, and it is impossible to sit and hum mantras continuously for twenty four hours, you have to get up and buy food, go to work, socialize, sleep and this is when NEs attack you again. Tibetan monks believe that in the distant future after hundreds of reincarnations they will stop NEs, but they will never believe it’s possible to do it right after a few years of persistent work and not five hundred years of humming mantras.

To avoid a misunderstanding I will identify, that the “effort” is a very intensive, concentrated and joyful wish. “Concentrated” means your attention is not scattered to a chaos of distractions. “Joyful” means being accompanied by expectation, freshness and anticipation.  “Make an effort to eliminate NEs” does not mean you strain every last muscle, clench your teeth or breathe in some special way, it means you wish strongly to stop NEs and be very keen to experience EPs.  Concentrated, intensive and a joyful wish leads to changing perceptions in conformity for this to be granted. The more persistent and determined you are in this practice, the better skilled you become and the more efficient your effort is. It is a mystery how it happens that the effort leads to changes, but as long as it happens I use it and achieve what I wish. People do not know about this distinguishing feature of the efforts as their wishes are either weak and scattered, or their drive does not include aspiration to the EPs, but fears, other NEs and a desire to protect or attack.

A couple more words, that give a precise description of the effort, they are to “remember” and to “jump in”. “To make an effort of NE elimination” is identical to “remember yourself in a free state from NEs” or “jump in the free state from NEs”. “To make an effort to generate EPs” is identical to “remember yourself in the condition when you experienced EPs”, “to jump in EPs”.  I draw your attention that it is required not just to think of the moment that you once experienced EPs, but remember exactly your state.  As far as all perceptions exist only in the here and now, “remember yourself in EPs” means “experience EPs immediately”.

You make a super effort when you do what you think is impossible, but go on increasing your efforts regardless of your skeptical thoughts or whatever.

 

It is impossible to imagine the contemporary world without science. Scientists study characteristics of materials, investigate the rules and ways to obtain the characteristics they need and apply this knowledge to replace perceptions. Feeling cold is changed onto feeling warm when you put on trekking sneakers and a modern jacket made of polyartek instead of a punched wet skin and wooden clogs. Toothache is eliminated when treated with modern technologies. But there was a time with no science, more than that, those who studied materials and creatures, were persecuted and blamed for disrespecting the gods, and so on.  Let us admit that Humanity is now on a new coil of civilization development. Modern people are certain that it is impossible just to replace irritation with fondness, depression with faith and sense of beauty, etc. Nobody studies the nature of perceptions, or practices their replacement guided by joyful wishes, anticipation and common sense. Even more, God’s severe punishment is promised to those people who practice, as they “upset the harmony of human nature”, because if NEs exist, they have their “mission for something”. In this case it is not clear why the critics do not stop treating toothache, use warm clothes and condoms, if toothache, colds and AIDS exist, then according to their dogmas, “it is needed for something”? For those, that accept a dogma of a man “created” with NEs and that the interference with the “natural order of things” is going to lead to a “misbalance”, for those I remind that if a man is created by somebody with an already full set of perceptions, then these perceptions include a joyful wish to change and a wish to make the effort to experience EPs and stop suffering. There is one more point I’d like to attract attention to. If a person makes a change in his life under the influence of some misconception or the fear or respect of some authority, then sometimes later he might feel sorry for what has been done and have a desire to return to his previous condition or seek for something else, because he is not happy with the life he has created. He had bright expectations, but reality turned up different. If a person was successful to eliminate at least one NE and straight away experienced a splash of EPs, then just the idea of returning to the previous condition of NEs makes him shudder. It is associated with death, or even something worse. The more often the practitioner experiences the EPs, the more determined he is to consolidate this condition and try to stop NEs. The new reality proves to be extremely more attractive.

A new epoch begins in the life of Humanity, people start investigating EPs and their ingredients, characteristics and laws, bring into the light joyful wishes aimed to change constituents of perceptions and create optimum technologies for these changes. In the process of materials investigations the scientists of the past discovered new substances with unique and incomprehensible characteristics. Likewise in this process, while practicing replacement of NEs with EPs, the new EPs appear with such striking qualities, that it is impossible to see even in the boldest of dreams. The era of EPs engineering begins, forming a conglomerate called the “man”. A man starts a new and unique journey, the peculiarity of this journey consists in the fact, that it’s not a notorious “journey of the mind” usually implying a certain emotional or intellectual process severed from the physical reality and senses, which means the physical body and common chores.  A man goes on a journey as a whole entirety. He is not a dreamer that turns over philosophical terms in his mind plus experiences a huge number of NEs and he has no EPs, feels sick and gets worse and worse. His physical body is also a unity of perceptions, we call them “feelings”, and these perceptions can also be replaced directly by effort (e.g. apathy to activeness, from “feeling not well” to “feeling great”), besides, his physical body begins to transform and improve following NEs disappearing from the set of perceptions and EPs taking their place.

At this moment (year 2005) there are very few of such travelers, only about 20 (I mean “snouts”), but in the year 2000, when I started my activity, there were no snouts at all. It makes me feel sure there will be more and more of them, as money, cars, education, relations or inheritance are not needed to make the journey.  It is enough to know that this journey is possible (the task is solved by this book) as well as the fact, that you are alive, and have the aspiration to be happy, experience EPs, overpower distresses. This is why I am confident the number of snouts will grow every year and the time will come when there will be snouts by the hundreds and thousands. Therefore I have had the most intensive anticipation while realizing my joyful wishes of accomplishing “snout-projects”, when I develop the infrastructure for the snout-culture, get books translated into other languages, be supportive with the “snouts” practices and help them become with time the experts in this field and be EPs educators who can assist the beginners independently. All my time and finances are aimed for this and I enjoy it.

The minimum task for “snouts” consists of first mastering the art of lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences, and then of learning to keep the conscious clear throughout the process of passing away (when the body is going to die), in between the physical death of the body and the birth of the new, and after the reincarnation to recall your practice in the “new life” and to continue from the level you have gone through in your past life. I am sure, that to gain this experience it is necessary to get rid of distresses and achieve continuous EPs of preferably ecstatic quality. Mankind has already had some similar limited experience (e.g. Dalai-Lama the 14^th, Karmapa the 17^th, and hundreds of other less famous Tibetan monks, “tulku”, known as people who transferred their consciousness to the new body with some larger or smaller gaps in their self-consciousness and capability to recall their past lives and past experiences).

 

NEs are characterized by a number of distinguishing features:

1) Realizing the process of NEs causes a certain amount of dullness (which means a high decrease in the capability and the wish to discern perceptions); 

2) After NEs you feel much worse;

3) After NEs you lose anticipation, enthusiasm, interest, other EPs and joyful wishes;

4) NEs are incompatible with clear conscience;

5) NEs are incompatible with EPs;

6) While you are in the power of NEs you are similar to a programmed robot, your behavior and reactions are predictable and most ineffective.

7) It is practically impossible to escape from the flow of NEs without a persistent and determined training, even if in some situation you want to stop NEs, they still do not cease due to the power of the lifelong habit.

 

PEs distinguishing features:

1) they are mirror opposites to NEs: envy – gloating, displeasure – pleasure, feeling of inferiority (FOI) – FSI, anxiety – inert calmness and dullness, bitterness of defeat –“joy” of victory, loneliness – unhealthy friendliness, ingratiating and so on; 

2) they are followed by fatigue, prostration and indifference;

3) they are followed by poisoning, feeling unwell, though it is not as strong as after NEs;

 4) while you have PEs there is still a fear they are going to wane sooner or later and NEs will appear; 

5) PEs are nearly hundred per cent incompatible with EPs but with the exception of the situations, when PEs compensate the respective NEs and a weak reverberation of EPs can flash in a small clearing;

6) In the process of the release of PEs and after it dullness appears;

7) PEs are incompatible with a clear mind though it’s not as apparent as when somebody is in the power of NEs;

8) A “robot-like” resemblance, predictability of behavior and reactions for a person experiencing PEs; actions are ineffective as in a case with NEs;

9) A wish to experience PEs is mostly similar to an addiction to drugs, the lack of PEs can cause “withdrawal symptoms” that can be exceptionally painful and can be accompanied with very strong NEs.

 

While a person is submerged in NEs, he hardly can find a clear border between PEs and EPs, because it’s very rare he experiences EPs. Therefore the main accent of PDP is applied to eradicating NEs as they cause agony, poisoning and are most unwelcome. As freedom from NEs expands, PEs start to laminate, some layers become obviously unwelcomed duplicating companions of NEs, others will be quite desirable to experience while clearing them from poisonous layers and as a result of this process finding the grains of EPs. Some PEs will disappear on their own providing the reflective NEs are eliminated, like envy dies, gloating vanishes.

While NEs are being eliminated, EPs will not disappear and vice versa their qualities intensify: a) frequency, b)intensity, c) profoundness (number of nuances), d) transparency (the degree of differentiation from the adjacent perceptions, “pureness”), e) resonating (a release of just one EP leads to the rush of a whole “bouquet” of others).

Another significant difference of EPs from PEs is the fact, that no matter how intensive PEs are, they always orientate to some object. Even the strong feeling of gloating is the emotion aimed at some person for some special reason. Even the strong feeling of pity is the emotion directed at some special person for some special situation. As for the EPs, they have the ability to be objectless when the intensity is increasing, especially when they become ecstatic.

Bobcat: “When PEs appear, I have no wish to differentiate perceptions or ask myself “what do I experience”. There is only a desire to realize the coming wishes without any attempts to see if they are mechanical or joyful, whether they are accompanied with poisoning and increasing fatigue or vice versa. As a result the situations involving NEs are unavoidable as there is no differentiation of the perceptions and it’s not clear what wishes they are and why, consequently you do not have a chance to release a desire to eliminate mechanical wishes and start realizing joyful wishes.

When EPs are released, the desire to separate the perceptions becomes stronger and every effort to differentiate resonates with EPs.

PEs block the intellect’s activity and suppress the ability to ratiocinate, to compare possible interpretations and to reach clarity regarding the interpretations. When a person is seized by these PEs, he is choosing only one of the many possible interpretations not because it is mostly reasoned, but because it is mostly comfortable for continuing to experience PEs. In this process even the most incredible displacements and additions may take place. Sometimes it can even lead to dangerous situations which could be instantly envisaged and avoided.

 

There exists a term “mental disorder”. It denotes everything unusual. You walk naked means you are unwell. You bathe in an ice-hole means you are unwell. You eliminate negative emotions means you are unwell. You do not want to get married means you are unwell. You do not love your parents also means you are unwell! I offer another definition: mentally unwell are those who do not want to experience certain emotions, wishes and thoughts but continue to do so. If you do not want to have NEs but you experience them, then mentally you are unwell and if you are aware of that, it makes you seek the road to recovery which means the elimination of NEs.

One of the main difficulties for NEs eradication is the false interpretation of NEs as an “integral part of yourself”, as your possession. The more a person is craving for possessing, the more difficult it is for him to have a wish to eradicate even the strongest sufferings, especially because he hopes to have PEs after the bout of NEs. However if you start eliminating NEs, then all fears and sorrows gradually disappear, and their absurdity gets transparent, because as a result EPs flash brighter bringing into the light a dilemma of either this or that. One cup on the scales contains NEs, the other cup has the delight of the touch with EPs.

Negative emotions are not an integral part of a person, it is just a tumour.  Quite often people talk about so called “personal qualities” meaning that these qualities are sort of inherent, given at the moment of birth or inculcated forever by their upbringing and if it is at all possible to correct them, there won’t be much correction. When they say “I am short-tempered”, with these words they display a “personal quality”, a “feature of character”. With this irritation is unavoidable in certain circumstances, which means there is a definite steady and rigid “connection” between the circumstances and NEs. Also some special “nature” of this “quality” is imagined, differing from the nature of the tumour, that can be either cultivated or eradicated. All similar “qualities” are nothing else but deep swallowed patterns of experiencing NEs. There are “no connections”, it is simply a habit, which can be changed.

 If you notice that all NEs are being eliminated and you do not have NEs at this moment, but at the same time you do not experience bright EPs as well, it means that right now you experience a negative background (NB). NB is the same as NEs only of poor intensity, as if they blur and spread like a “pre-bottom” layer. They do not have obvious splashes, but when they do spill, these are usual NEs, and quite often you might not guess that the NB you are experiencing is nourishing a layer for NEs and NEs do not come from a vacuum. NB lasts in time, it can drag for hours, days, months, a lifetime. It is not easy to reveal this deeply rooted NB. For this good advice is worthwhile from a practicing partner who has good experience of eliminating NEs, NB, NEC and he can see the signs indicating of your merging with NB.  If there is no such option, it is necessary to intensify your attention and apply various techniques of the practice to reveal the NB. Emotions polishing practice is especially effective (see below). Another option is to sort out your thoughts and watch which one of them causes more obvious resonation and this will allow you to uncover NB. It may be anxiety triggered by insecurities for the future, fear for a child, fear of the parents, fear of people’s judgments, shyness, continual dull state, and each to his own.

Enlightened background (EB) is revealed analogically to the NB.

Let’s introduce the term “Negative dominant”. Often people say that they are nearly free from NEs, a few claim they do not experience NEs and NB for hours or even days. At the same time it is very obvious that this person is packed to the limit with NEs and NB, his face is distorted, body is tense so much so that you just can’t help wondering:  why he doesn’t realize it. Negative dominant is the NE or NB which you are so much used to, that you cannot imagine your life without these and do not notice that you are experiencing them continually all the time! I say again, that if you were free from all NEs, you would experience some bright and steady EPs at this very moment , but if you do not have them it means right now you have NE or NB or NEC, which is a negative dominant.  

Do not stop at this stage of discussing the practice, start your real fight for liberation from this moment. Fight! How long can you live with it? Yes, it is not easy to eradicate NEs, but is it easier to live with them? Beginning to eradicate NEs is the first step. If you do not make this first step, you do not achieve anything at all and everything is closed for you. How long will it take you to make this first step? There are huge spaces of EPs in front of you, but you are gingerly delicate with this poison… Imagine that you are a mountaineer conquering a peak. It is very hard to reach the pinnacle. There are many people calling themselves teachers, enlightened and masters, but have you met at least one person free from NEs? This pinnacle is not conquered by many, and the reason is not because of its inaccessibility but in the fact that nobody attempts to reach it. Nobody makes a direct effort of NEs eradication, but all are seeking roundabouts, BRBs – postures, mantras. Get your act together, your persistence, the love of life, because if you do not solve your task, you will share the fate of all surrounding you. Look at the old women who became a physical embodiment of NEs, will you be happy with such a life? Look at the young people with vacant stares, who have spasmodic journeys from NEs and dullness of PEs to deeper NEs and most utterly boring dullness. Look at people of the age of 30 to 40 years old, who long ago lost any hope for betterment. Do you want to be like them? If no, fight. Imagine yourself an Amazon woman, a terminator, a witch, because you will need the highest intensity of all your strength, and not for some illusive “bright future”, but for experiencing EPs now, following the eradication of NEs. Every step you make is a new level of liberation, every day new splashes of EPs are falling for you, your life changes into a continuous creativity and you will enjoy this venture.

There are benches at the entrance to your block of apartments and sitting there are old men and women. Also here are kids and teenagers. And all these puppets are inevitably going to change into SOMETHING, to denote what there are no words. Look into their eyes. Do you want to become this SOMETHING?

As soon as NEs are eradicated, flashes of EPs will appear. If you can clear yourself from NEs at least a little bit, you’ll see that the path to freedom is incredibly simple! Just get rid of a few of distresses, and that is that! You will start this amazing journey in deep penetrating feelings which are opening a new world within you. It is not that you are looking from a far at something attractive, but you yourself become a pleasure, a discovery and a journey.

EPs are impossible to experience behind the curtain of NEs. You cannot create or contrive EPs, they are either revealed or concealed, but you might wish to experience them. The wish to experience EPs becomes stronger with further liberation from “distresses” (see below), and it mysteriously brings EPs closer. If this wish is very strong, its quality changes, I call it an “effort”, and then it leads to spontaneous EPs. At first these are short splashes, which seem to appear without any connection with the practice. The strength and the depth of EPs depends on the intensity and sincerity of the efforts and this later becomes very clear. When a puff of smoke becomes thinner, it allows sun rays to get through. EPs are not in static states. When you experience them, you will become a journey into the amazing worlds.

Society reaction is a very serious obstruction to eradicate NEs and to start persistent practice. This reaction is negative, aggressive-negative. People surrounding you, your relatives, your acquaintances, the esoteric followers from forums and the internet, all of them will probably show aggression to the idea of eradicating NEs and explain in lots of words that it is impossible and unnatural and will lead to terrible mental problems and so on. There are exceptions from this rule, but not many. At first relatives and friends can agree with you about everything out of fear of losing your attention, but the sooner your practice of eradicating NEs and dogmatic concepts becomes consistent, the clearer is their real attitude to it. Such unanimous aggressive-negative attitude towards NEs eradicating, which quite often is accompanied with threats and physical violence, can seriously rock your determination. Many practicing beginners give up when they feel that they are in a vacuum and join those vegetating with NEs all their life. It’s your choice and up to you to decide.

When you reveal your usual perceptions, even though there is quite a big portion of NEs among them and you have a wish not to experience them, you still have this “feeling of comfort”. When you start practicing the direct path and replace your conceptions, then a “feeling of discomfort” will appear, in spite of the growing portion of EPs. But from a certain level of saturation with EPs and during the process of replacing the perceptions the feeling of discomfort will give way to the anticipation, delight and other EPs. One hour outside the practice is recalled like more or less a smooth chain of impressions. One hour’s effort is like hacking through the jungle full of obstacles, overcoming them and making discoveries. EPs are rarely revealed, this is why a practitioner at an early stage of practice can use this feeling of comfort as a reason to think that he is “sleeping” in his usual distresses. Some people will find this life terrible, like a life of a traveler that seems to his neighborly old lady to be an awful nuisance and masochism.

 

NEs are similar to a cancerous tumour. For example, a person, who is used to feeling self-pity (SP), is destroying his life purposely and doing it without help, because he needs to have a reason to stand out with this special “suffering” in order to attract attention, to get compassion and to be comforted (this is what he wants so much). He needs more and more details to savour his misgivings, then he can consecrate you into the “mystery” of his “sufferings” with a good knowledge and with a sense of his superiority. The one, who is successful in this race for the championship, is getting the aureole of a martyr “distinguished by destiny” and thus strengthens his feeling of self importance.

The person, prone to self-pity (pSP), cultivates a whole collection of wishes, which is similar to a cancerous tumour, he welcomes more and more the scenario leading to these “troubles”, because the more NEs and sufferings he experiences, the more he can support his SP and FSI. It will enable him to occupy a higher tier in the ranking table of unhappy people, demanding (and receiving) the compassion from others, as well as the consequential actions. His “troubles” (imagined and real) become his possessions, articles of the trade to be exchanged for service and attention. As a result pSP destroys his life without anybody’s help, governed by weak directed actions (wda) and definite directed actions (dda). WDA are the actions accompanied by the thoughts “I am doing this”, “it is happening”, but if you ask this person or if he asks himself whether “he is doing this” or whether “it's really happening», he will reply “no”, which means there is no clarity in his mind. With DDA the person admits he is doing it.

 

01-02) It is easier to set a task of the NEs eradication than to start acting. Huge efforts are required and practicing has to be an integral part of life, otherwise dreams will not be realized.  It’s not “devoting special times for practicing”, it is practicing directly in the day to day activities of your life. There are not many people, who shift from words to actions and persistently and positively continue to achieve the goals with anticipation and aspiration in spite of many ups and downs.

NEs are eradicated through the effort, as if you “root out” yourself from NEs like from a quicksand swamp, you “recall” yourself in a state free from NEs and “jump into” EPs. Lots of training is required to perfect this effort. See below the descriptions of different variants of thoughts and images which resonate with the effort. NEs eradication is identified as an effort leading to the following: a) there is no trace of NEs, even an insignificant trace, b) maybe weak, but still clear EPs appear.  Of course, getting this skill to “jump out” of NEs perfectly, with EPs following every time, is not easy.  In the beginning more often this state “nothing-is-happening” will appear, but it is possible at least to recall the aspiration of EPs after every effort of NEs eradication. “Perfect eradication” is the one which takes no longer than half a second. This period is not enough for NEs either to poison, or to produce a tail of consequential NEs, or to feed NB.

In order to stay socially adequate, quite often people just suppress NEs, but it does not lead to the liberation from them, but vice versa, NEs turn into a heavy NB, which masks EPs with a very thick and solid toxic curtain. What’s the difference between NEs eradication and NEs suppression? The criterion is in the experiencing of EPs, at least for a brief moment, while the NEs of the usual pattern did not appear again. It is also possible to be orientated on the quality of your wish not to have NEs, if it’s accompanied with anticipation, the probability of NEs eradication and not of suppression is quite high. If the wish is reasoned by fear, shame, FSI and other NEs, eradication will not take place.

If an attempt of NEs eradication is followed by tiredness, fatigue, discontentment and EP flashes do not appear, it means, that suppression took place and not eradication. Selecting suppression you choose not to refuse from NEs, but hide them out of fear of consequences, or shame or other NEs, you do not show your inner state of boiling anger and you just try to look calm. With this quite often NEs get only stronger, their cores multiply bringing you to stinking boiling anger, which sooner or later will lash out. One NE can be forced out with another (e.g. irritation can be replaced with shame, fear or self-pity), but intoxication continues. Listed below are the acts that do not lead to the eradication of NEs and will bring their infinite circulation:

1) Replacement of NEs with PEs. If you are irritated with your husband, you call your friend and she entertains you.

2) One NE is forced out with another. Shame is replaced with aggression.

3) Self-cheating. You will still experience NEs, but you think that nobody can see them, persuading yourself, that NEs are gone. Thus you kill your own sincerity and lose the last chance to change.

4) An escape to boredom. NEs are present, but you do not let yourself think about it, you just force these thoughts out.

5) Adhesion. There is a thought “I experience NEs now”, there is also a weak wish to stop them, but this wish is not strong enough to overcome your pattern to experience NEs and your mechanical wish to continue experiencing them.

6) Suppression. This is transforming NEs into NB.

This list is of course not complete, if you like, you can add to it yourself.

 

One of the main obstacles of NEs eradication is self-cheating, when a person thinks he wants to eliminate NEs, but actually he doesn’t want to do it. This is exactly what makes it so complicated - it is your wish to have NEs without realizing it.  When you have NEs, you always wish to experience them, and the stronger NEs, the stronger is the wish to experience them. When you realize clearly, that the NE is as strong as you want it and not because it’s so hard to get rid of, you will feel determination, anticipation and admiration. This clarity can also lead to a couple of new wishes, one being the wish to intensify the wish of EPs and the other to make NEs wish weaker. The wish to experience NEs is accompanied with the thoughts-excuses of the following type: “he provoked me”, “this is a fair NE” and so on.

NEs eradicating takes place as a result of such efforts, which have reasons as a) a wish to stop suffering, b) realizing that it is impossible to live in this poisonous trash, c) aspiration to clarity and EPs, which are incompatible with NEs. When you eradicate NEs, you do not replace one with another, because you will not be satisfied with a shallow effect, as this task is not concluded by hiding NEs from people, but your goal is to stop NEs and experience EPs. As a result of NEs eradication there will be some light, but quite a distinct feeling of being liberated, of some joy, peace, intensive calmness, anticipation and an interest for life. In the case of suppression it never happens.

If we examine the process of NEs eradication in detail, then the process is:

1) A very brief fixation of the thought that “there is a NE”.

2) A wish to stop a NE.

3) An effort of NE eradication (that is a sharp and concentrated bolt of a wish).

4) A wish to experience EP.

5) An effort to produce EP.

6) EP revealed.

Only after the completion of item 6 it is possible to say that the eradication was successful. However a successful eradication does not mean the NE will not appear again five seconds later, as it is a very strong pattern, but if you eliminate it persistently every time it happens, it’ll get weaker and weaker until disappears completely.

In the process of perfection the links of the chain become more and more usual and in the end they will happen automatically, as if on their own, like in the past NEs have been revealed. Thus the habit to experience unwelcome perceptions will be replaced with a pattern for welcome ones and in the end it’s possible to master the perfect eradication of NEs. After a while as you perfectly eradicate the NE, it won’t appear anymore and this is how you achieve the complete eradication of this NE. When you learn to ride a bicycle, it’s really hard to keep your balance, but once you’ve learnt, you do not even think about it. Same pattern is here.

At an early stage of practicing NEs eradication it is good to support the practice with visual images and thoughts which resonate with this process of eradicating NEs. Every practitioner finds an image as per their preferences. It can be an image of a sun ray which burns all NEs, or an image of a strong torrent wiping out everything in its way, or a blast blowing all obstructions to smithereens created by NEs or whatever. Here are some examples of images resonating with the effort of NEs eradication: 

1. Intensifying efforts, like lifting a huge heavy stone from the bottom of a lake. First you brush off the silt, and then continually bring it towards the surface.

2. Every strong NE is like a hurricane and in order to survive you have to furiously drive a post into the ground continuously. The wind cannot sway this post and with every gust the post gets more and more stable.

3. Establishing power in a rebellious country. Frenzy crowds of charlatans want to take this power away. If you relax just for a moment, the power will be lost. When stability is achieved, new laws are announced, these are the laws of aspiration, peacefulness and joyfulness.

4. Uncompromising and gentle return of attention from NEs to recalling EPs. It is as if I could not stare at something because of erratic and chaotic movement of my eyes and I had to shake myself all the time, slap my cheeks, settle my head, hide other things under the covers. But at some certain moment I learnt to look in one direction and delicately return my drifting glance. 

5. Laser, like a thin but very powerful ray of light, which rapidly and inevitably clears space.

6. Pounce of a tiger. With every exhalation I collect all my strength and throw myself into an EP, I leap into it and even if after one or two seconds of experiencing EP I am sucked out of it, I continue leaping in again. Soon the initial state changes and I am capable of staying in EP for 3 to 5 seconds.

 

01-03) One of the techniques to shatter the stability of the pattern to experience NEs in a certain situation is the practice of recurring replacement of interpretations. If at this moment you feel sad because of loneliness, try to concentrate on the following thoughts: “how good it is to stay alone for some time on your own, not to pretend to be somebody else, not having to prove anything to anybody, not to meet somebody’s expectations, rules and observe the morals; to have time to ponder, relax, to focus on my feelings and fantasies. All the time there are so many people around, but now I can use this moment to enjoy being alone”. As a result you will notice that NEs are weakened. Now change your interpretation and think: “if there was a handsome guy next to me, I could attract his attention, it would be interesting to both of us, I could touch him and experience the erotic delight. Some people are happy together, but I am lonely, have nobody to talk to, have nobody to be in love with”. As a result there appears a painful feeling of loneliness and other NEs strengthen also. Thus after “swinging” between these two interpretations you will get an interesting experience that a NE depends on the interpretation of the situation, not on the situation itself.  Replacement of interpretations is not the way of liberation from NEs, it only the first step. Firstly, the strength of the pattern to experience NEs, which has been repeated thousand times before, is deeper than any interpretations, and secondly, while you replace the interpretations, NE is living, developing, poisoning and producing new NEs. Such recurring replacement of interpretations gives only a minimum experience of weakening NEs, but still it strengthens the understanding, that it is possible to influence NEs independently of the situation. The false concept that emotions are entirely determined by the situation makes you helpless, because it is not often you can change the situation and as a result you do not see any way out. In one case you will be a pessimist buried in NEs, in the other you are a revolutionary trying to change the circumstances to those that do not lead to NEs, which is impossible as NEs will be replaced by others. 

If both interpretations are equally possible, why not to choose and strengthen the one that weakens NEs and allows you to be in a more attractive state? The replacement of unwelcome interpretations with pleasant ones is a minimum task which enables you to shatter in a small degree the pattern of immediate falling into the strong NEs.

It is very significant that while practicing you accumulate the experience of EPs revealing. Those moments, that you actually lived in EPs, accumulate and this happens not “figuratively”, but in the direct reality, and sooner (or, alas, later) it leads to a break-through and you feel a spontaneous relief from eradicating NEs. The EPs that you are familiar with, become brighter and more stable and new EPs are revealed. If there are such NEs that you feel sorry to part with (usually this is sadness, self-pity, pity to the others, jealousy, but sometimes it can be an aggression, negative attitude), then you can get rid of those that you feel obviously unwelcome and causing illness. 

This pattern of experiencing the NEs is intensified by hundred thousand repetitions, this is why they can come back a few seconds later after their eradication. Strengthen your firm determination and aspiration to achieve your goal no matter what and to overpower this habit that is killing you. You will need lots of effort for a complete eradication from NEs, but you immediately get results in the form of EPs flashes following each successful effort. This experience accumulates and intensifies the effectiveness of your practice and your life fullness.

Attacking one separate NE is a very effective technique. You choose the most frequently revealing NE, for example, dissatisfaction, and take a decision not to allow it to exist in you for longer than a second or two during the nearest three days (three hours, an hour). Mixed with other NEs, dissatisfaction is revealed every time, and sometimes it’s not easy to identify it, speaking nothing of eradicating it for only a second. This is why you have to watch yourself every (!) second and eradication from one exact NE becomes a massive attack of many others.  Even one hour of such practice is very hard, as if you are running in a marathon, and if you do not have this feeling, it means you are self-cheating, wishing is what you are thinking is really happening, but in reality there is no total eradication of dissatisfaction (you also watch that you have EP flashes as they are a sign of successful NE eradication). During these attacks you will form and intensify the pattern of immediate NE eradication and achieve a significant progress in the speed and clarity of such eradication. The eradication from the next NE will be much easier compared to your first experience.

Another significant result is achieved through a thorough control of perceptions in order to discover and eradicate all NEs that are due for elimination. Such control is possible only if I am aware (that is I fix in my ID) of everything what is happening to me. This way I create a pattern of being attentive to perceptions and get an experience of joyfulness from attention. There is a massive difference between a simple life when you just do something and a life when you are aware of revealing perceptions. The thorough control leads to a beginning of a rapid process of perceptions segregation, which also leads to a state of creativity. There will appear new and captivating ideas, discoveries, unexpected aspects of EPs, and a sensation of special profoundness in your life is revealed, as if a valve opens and lets the feeling of fullness pour in. Written record becomes joyful as well.

NEs always have visual expression (either brightly evident or hardly noticeable to an inexperienced person), like a weak sigh, a light grimace, an unnoticeable gesture, a specific change in the voice – let us call these “bodily signs of NEs” (“bsNE”). Nearly all facial expressions, gestures and intonations are merged completely with bsNE. Control of your bsNE enables you to identify slipping NEs better and to re-live the situation while eradicating NEs and clearing the incidental NEs. Controlling facial expressions, voice and gestures is much easier than controlling NEs, this is why identifying and eradicating bsNE is helpful to practice. If you missed a NE and “woke up” when it already matured and blended with others, then you must immediately get rid of the bsNE and after that the NE. “Purge your space”, do not stop half way, eradicate even the smallest flash of NEs, until you achieve the state of “nothing-is-happening” as the minimum or of EPs as the maximum.

The freedom from NEs leads to clarity and liberation from false concepts. If you were raped, it can be painful and unpleasant (not necessarily quite right, because if you give the rapist a condom and remember, that it’s not so easy to find a qualitatively erect and well moving penis to be just “shagged” without being in a “relationship”, then you can get pleasure as intensive as you like), but there is NOTHING “psychologically traumatic” in it, as it depends only on you whether you experience NEs or not. When you break your arm, the pain is incomparably stronger, than the unpleasant feelings when raped. Then why is the broken arm not a reason to commit a suicide? Why are there no clubs for psychological help for those that have broken an arm? Because it is not common to experience strong NEs from broken arms, as it is not considered to be “terrible” and “shameful”, while it is accepted to be for rapes. The penis was forced against the will into the vagina and this is what happened, but very significant and enormous importance is attributed to it, which is elementary hypocrisy and stupidity. After you have broken your arm you’ll have to have you arm in a plaster cast for two months, then exercise your joints, have injections to prevent tetanus and so on, whereas after a vicious rape all you have to do is to apply miramistin or silverized colloidal solution for disinfection, take measures against pregnancy, and as for bruises, they will disappear ten times sooner than a broken finger recovers. Besides, if you are not captured by paralyzing NEs, it is possible to avoid rape or bring to the minimum the unwelcome effects (see “questions and answers” – 0059).

Having realized, that NEs eat you away in the most direct meaning of the word, you can use the practice of “remembering that NEs are toxic”. The moment when NE appears you say either loudly or under your breath “Poison!”, “I do not want to experience that!” It allows you to shudder and mobilize, to remember your attitude towards NEs, to weaken the mechanical wish to feel negative. Along with that it slows down the inner parasite dialogue, which supports NEs and produces their multiple flashes. There are no small things in eradicating NEs! Even the most “insignificant” NE is strongly toxic, and when you experience EP you can see that clearly, but there is no clarity when you do not have EPs. The smallest shade of NE instantly and greatly weakens EP. Besides, a weak NE, for example a brief negative attitude (“NA”) or negative energy state (“NES”) (or in other words “poor physical state of health”, inertia, apathy, “nothing-is-happening”) can be an above-the-water part of a giant iceberg of NB. Eliminate this part and the submerged part will ascend and become accessible for investigation and then eradication.

“Negative attitudes” are weak NEs, sometimes they are very faint, short and not always are followed by definitely clear NEs. For example, there may be enough of a brief glance at an unpleasant face, or at just any face and in an instant you feel hostility, disapproval or rejection. While practicing attentiveness you will discover, that your every day is penetrated by thousands of NAs. The most effective technique to eliminate this flock, fussing around, is emotional polish and concentrating on EPs.

Further I will sometimes call this ensemble of NE, NES, NB and NA as “four Ns” or “4Ns”, they are nothing but varieties of NEs, this is why more often I label them with a generalized term “NEs”.

It usually doesn’t even come into people’s minds that NES can be eliminated. This idea is interpreted as revolutionary. It is considered, that dullness and inertia are an integral part of a personality, they are caused by “objective” reasons, and all we can do is interrupt them by entertainment, orgasms, food and sleep. But NES can be eliminated like any other unwelcome state. The first step is identify the NES as a separate perception and realize: “there is inertia” or “there is a “nothing-is-happening”. And then it becomes possible to investigate this state, have a precisely directed wish “not to experience this state” and make the effort to eradicate it and finally complete it.

Let me introduce the term “distress” and use it to denote any group of NEs, NB, NES, NA, of false concepts and mechanical wishes (see corresponding chapters).

Position of an unbiased judge: imagine you are judging in the conflict of two people (you are one of them) and you say: “stop talking immediately, make neutral faces, and after that we will sort it out”.  Get rid of the confidence in NEs “justice”, stop boiling over nothing, because very often you assess your NEs as “fair” and NEs eradication as an agreement with “unfairness”.  This is why tell yourself: “I will analyze the situation and make a decision, but I want to consider and resolve being sober and not intoxicated by NEs which block the capability to think clearly”. Remember that any NEs, independently of no matter what, are intoxicating your body with poison and  obstructing the capability to react effectively, think logically, be exquisite, experience joyful wishes. This is why they should be eradicated unconditionally and undoubtedly.

To intensify the wish of liberation from NEs it is good to list all unwelcome consequences of experiencing NEs, that is the consequences you do not want to have. It is also worthwhile to list the actions decreasing the wish of NEs eradication. These are the following:

*) suppression of joyful wishes,

*) complying with mechanical concepts: various “must”, “should”, “it is important”…

*) overeating,

*) sleeping in or chronic lack of sleep,

*) frequent orgasms (in average it is more than one series of orgasms in 2 to 3 weeks),

*) contentment and self-contentment

 

Periods of determined and persistent efforts of NEs eradication can be changed by periods of apathy and impotence, but when you again return to practicing, you discover that you manage easier in some aspects, and this is the result of your earlier efforts. What has to be done in these periods of “kickback” and depression? (depression we identify as a state, when the wish to feel distress is much stronger that the wish to experience EPs).

1) Minimum that you can do is to investigate your distress: watch, record in writing, analyze, experiment, look for patterns). Investigation intrudes into the process of kickback and changes its colours and now you are not the one which gave up, but the one who investigates and watches. It is a significant difference how you will feel.

 2) You can change other habits. I call it “conservative practices». The habit of smoking, drinking alcohol, using words-parasites, dangling you leg, frowning, cutting bread with the left hand… there are lots of habits, both unwelcome and indifferent to you. Though the change of habits does not require a high degree of concentration and persistency as for the NEs eradication, it still increases the effectiveness of NEs elimination.

An extract from Skvo’s records about quitting smoking: “the meaning of quitting smoking is not the beginning of a healthy life style, at this stage I do not think of this as a “bonus”. Smoking presents a very strong mechanical habit. Unrealized, the wish to smoke drags a whole pile of NEs, and the degree of this distress is so high, that it promotes the maximum effectiveness of exercising in the effort of NEs eradication. It is not worthwhile to mitigate the conditions of practicing, because the result will be uncertain and you will not be able to perfect your effort and use it in the “battle”. Of course I can go to the woods, do my running exercises there, read, have sex and “stop” smoking, but as soon as I see a kiosk selling tobacco, or a friend who is enjoying a fragrant cigarette and I will give up again, which means that the effort of the habit eradication is not practiced right. My task is not concluded in escaping the conditions, favourable for my habit to “sleep”, my goal is courageously to face it and eradicate it every time it is revealed. In this struggle I can “hardface” my effort, “sharpen” it to the perfection and use it in the battle with NEs.

A powerful effort is required in order to eradicate a NE. It is not an easy task to exercise it, but it is very interesting, because I eliminate what I do not want to experience and I generate what I wish. It changes me radically.

 

01-04) The practice of “recurring perceptions” (RP) is especially effective. This is a multiple re-experiencing and eradication of NEs. Again and again you can create (or recall) (e.g. with the help of a thought which plays a role as a trigger) a situation where you usually experience a NE. As soon as this NE appears, you immediately eliminate it, after that you generate it again and again get rid of it and carry on until you have the power to do it, and when you have no more strength for this exercise, learn how to make super efforts while experiencing enthusiasm, anticipation and aspiration. If, for example, after 50 cycles no more NEs appear, it means that the situation is 100% complete. Next time the automatic appearing of NE will be weaker and much easier for eradication. Due to this practice the pattern of NE appearing is quickly burnt and becomes clear that the alternative whether to experience the NEs or not depends totally on your wish and persistence.

Recurring perception of NEs that are triggered by some memories, present a wonderful method of eradicating flat and dense NB, because many ingredients of this NB take their roots in the events of either recent or distant past. For example, you were raped or there was an attempt to rape you; or your “loving and caring” parents beat and abused you; or you experienced a very strong sense of guilt or shame and so on. Suppressed at that time NEs formed a dense NB, which exists up till now. There is a practice of emotional polish (see below) to eradicate NB, but recurring perception of those memories can change and remedy much. Those memories can be fuzzy and fragmented, because you tried to forget them, this is why you first have to recall all the details.  Record every small detail you can remember. If re-experiencing leads to new small fragmented memories, add them to your records. Re-play the event in your memory from the beginning to the end, try to feel intensive what you were feeling at that time, no matter what it was: fear, terror, disgrace, shame, re-experience what had happened to you. All these years you have been suppressing the memories of the event trying to protect yourself from the NEs, but now you have to reverse the task to re-experience them in their maximum and completely eradicate them. Imagine that you experience it as a person of today, you yourself have chosen to do it in order to achieve the highest quality of eradicating NE. When you are sure that the memory of the situation does not trigger the NEs any more or you are capable of eradicating them completely, you will realize that the situation itself does not “cause” NEs, the cause is a pattern of feelings, and sometimes the wish to experience NEs. But it is your choice whether to feel negative or not.

If right now you have this joyful wish to exercise NEs eradication, but your situation does not involve any NEs at the moment, you can use your imagination. The mechanism of NEs revealing can be triggered by not only real, but also fictitious (or recalled) situation. For example, if you want to work with jealousy, imagine your boy-friend hugging another girl and support this fantasy with a thought: “I do not know who he is with and where. I think that he is at work, but if he wants to have sex with some other girl, he can do it at the time, when I am thinking that he is working.” There is no difference between the NEs, appearing as a result of an actual or an imaginary situation, and this allows use of imagination for the practice of recurring perception.

 

01-05) Practice of limited total control (LTC): During five or ten minutes you control every (!) second for even a smidgen of a NE could not slip in without immediate eradication. LTC enables to acquire the following experience:

1) your efforts are directed to the total eradication of all NEs without differentiation;

2) revealing and following the eradication even of the weakest NEs;

3) you are in a higher quality state of freedom from NEs than usually;

4) consolidation, stretching time, more intensive and interesting life; LTC is the concentration of all your power, overexcitement and complete mobilization. Start with a short period of one minute. If I plan to live free from NEs for a whole hour but experience them again and again without immediate eradication, I will be defeated, my aspiration will decrease and my skepticism will grow. If I am going to practice only one minute and achieve success, it is already a victory and I will obtain the experience of higher than usual freedom from NEs and the wish to carry on with my practice.

During the LTC exercise eliminate NEs as if this is your last battle and you have no right to be defeated. If you like, you can scream under your breath, or strain your muscles, or bite hard on your finger or do whatever you like, but do not give up and do not stop eradicating NEs. Turn yourself inside out as soon as you feel a NE is approaching. The pattern should be broken at any price and later you will learn to eradicate NEs without these strange gestures, screams and so on.

Practice of situation control (SC) is concluded in splitting your day into typical situations that trigger corresponding NEs and NB. When you are entering the doorway of your apartment block, you feel an aversion due to the smell of rats, when you are going to work, you are worried by the management’s opinions, etc. Achieve at least one particular success, occupy at least one springboard that you are going to keep unavailable for NEs. You will have ups and downs, disappointments and discoveries, but your purges from NEs in other situations will be a bit easier. You are different from what you have been, you have changed because now “you” are nothing else but an ensemble of perceptions in this particular place. You do not live your previous life, because you replaced the perceptions, and if you wish you can advance in change. This is a result of your joyful wish, persistence and determination in the realization of this change.

You have at your disposal a simple and effective technique of achieving perceptions which you welcome and eliminating unwelcome ones. The smell of rats in the doorway turns into an “enlightened factor” (“EF”) which means that the perception of the doorway will resonate with an EP. And the higher the amount of EPs among all other perceptions, the greater the EB.

EB is like a trigger or a switch that leads to the EPs (especially if there is the jw to experience EPs). It can be anything – the view of an angry sea, of enormous mountains, animals, plants; people, phrases, melodies, etc. For example, you are looking at the ocean and you experience EP. Or a big beetle is flying over you, bugging you and landing on you and suddenly it does not add to your EP, but as if a curtain of dullness breaks and a dam bursts, there appears an amazing resonating of two perceptions and you experience a bright affection towards this beetle, though you have always been indifferent to beetles or even did not like them. From this moment the sight of a flying beetle becomes an EP for you. 

There is a mechanism of transferring EPs, when one EB for one EP becomes an EB for another EP.

I recommend that a list of all EBs is written, such recording will reinforce their power.

Details are very significant for the description of EB, they have a quality of resonating, but it’s not easy to identify them in a mass of other memories, I advise to describe everything and later sort out what is important. For example, there is an EP, which is a memory of you sitting with snouts on a couch, experiencing an EP. While describing this situation you suddenly discover that there is one very significant detail: a picture of small brown elephants on a couch cover. You cannot explain it logically, this is why at first you even wanted to miss this element in your description as it’s not important.

Anything can be an EB: a stupid aggressive man, mud in the street, a crowded train, a billboard, a cigarette butt in the toilet, whatever. The more perfect you are in eradicating distresses, the more perceptions enlarge your EB. Before you were bored of being idle on a train, now you are busy every minute with the recording in your mind, with emotional polish, with expressing your wishes, investigating concepts, eliminating NE, etc. In a month you suddenly discover, that the perception of the uncomfortable and crowded train is intertwined so closely with the efforts and EPs, that it became an EB.  If before, looking at the boring and grey faces you experienced NA, then after perfect eradicating NA those boring people became EB for you.

You always “know” what is happening outside the walls of your home or office, there are boring colleagues or neighbours that are busy with their boring work or other boring tasks. But you also know that somewhere outside your walls there is Hedgehoggie, Bodhi, Fyord and other practitioners, and an ocean with a smooth surface and bright stunning mountain tops. But by the old pattern you support your imagination of what you are used to imagining, not what is EB.

 

I recommend that you keep detailed investigation-reports of your practice of replacing perceptions, which will be an explicit diary with the descriptions of your battle. It is necessary to blend with a note-pad and pen. What were you doing, what was the result, what was not successful, what discoveries and interesting observations have you made,  what intensity of NEs and EPs did you have in the process of your efforts, etc., see details in the chapter “Descriptions and recordings”. For example, you can mark NEs with different symbols to designate NEs, which were eradicated immediately, or in 2 to 5 seconds, or were not eradicated (if the NE was longer than five seconds).

Written recording of the experience will become a counter-balance to your skeptical thoughts and an undeniable proof of the fact that you are capable to solve these tasks.  Your diary will contain your personal information unlikely to be read by anybody else (others can begin feeling aggressive towards you), this is why in order to be sincere and up to the maximum keep your records protected by passwords, e.g. in MS Word. Your password should meet the following requirements: not less than 10 characters, avoid simple words, use capital letters, digits and special symbols like @#$%^&*.

Investigation of specific NEs and their classification contributes to a more efficient differentiation and eradication of NEs.

Let us have a good look at irritation. Irritation and displeasure are very appropriate for the training ground to exercise efforts, because they reveal frequently, clearly and distinctly and do not have a strong conceptual support as for example jealousy or pity. (Negative attitude, displeasure, irritation, aggression and hatred are the same NE of different intensity, that is why a person with “just” a negative attitude is a person who can reveal hatred at any moment).

Every particular kind of irritation can be related with a definite category and after that eradicated. With this it is impossible to achieve a perfect eradication (that is from half a second to a second), this is why it is worthwhile to classify NEs only during the initial period when there is no good clarity of their character.  When the speed of a certain NE eradication is increased and it takes from two to three seconds to get rid of it, the categorizing of the emotion will have no efficiency any more. This link of the chain can be now thrown away without any damage, but in the beginning this classification of NEs has an advantage because in order to identify the category and the quality of an NE you have to study very attentively all its aspects. This way you learn to identify this NE in your everyday life, which is a necessary condition of its eradication.

For example, you can classify all the aspects of irritation according to the situational patterns:

а) unwelcome behavior from other people

б) you are not happy with your own behavior

в) undesirable combination of circumstances

г) undesirable “behavior” of  everything

д) general irritation from “the world that surrounds you”.

 

It’s not so significant to be very precise in the description of a situation triggering irritation, because elimination of it in one situation leads to developing the capability to notice and eliminate irritation in all other situations.

It is good to complete the act of NE eradication with a firm decision to carry on the exercise of eliminating NE to triumph and the confidence that EPs will appear and fill your life.

 

One more method of dividing emotions into two categories is based on the difference of how they are revealed, recorded and investigated. One emotion is decreasing and vanishing, another is increasing, laminating and becomes deeper. We can conditionally call them “negative” or “positive” according to the first or second type. It is interesting, that the emotions, which I identified earlier as “negative”, proved to be also negative in accordance with these categories. Positive emotions act with ambiguity. Some of them also clear away, especially opposites of NEs (e.g. “grieving over a loss – joy of possession”).  Others start laminating, which means, that earlier you could see in the process only one PE, now you are capable to differentiate a number of them. Some of them vanish or there appears a wish to eradicate them, others, on the contrary, become stronger and there appears a wish to experience them more often, and gradually EPs start revealing as a result of such a purge. I want to attract your attention that it is impossible to use this quality of emotions for eradication of NEs, because the NE will generate many new NEs and intensify the NB during the period necessary for you to watch this NE. As a result it will not be eradicated, but will be replaced by another perception, but the replacement of perceptions takes place in any case and as we can see, it does not lead to NE eradication. Usually it is the practice of those who are self-cheating and actually do not want to refuse from the NE.

It is very effective to match different trends of practices, though not in accordance with a schedule plucked from anywhere, but by your interests and a joyful wish. It’s wrong to think: “first I will eradicate NE and after that I will deal with my wishes and concepts”. Distresses are interweaved with each other very closely and you never know in advance when and where a rip is going to happen, and when it does happen it looks like when you pull a thread, it affects not only the spot  where you pull, but material is affected over the whole width. When liberation is achieved in one aspect, it affects the whole spectrum of perceptions, and quite often the progress in NEs eradication leads to realizing the falsity of a number of concepts or vice versa. The book has a consistency and sequence of paragraphs, it cannot be written otherwise, but in practice your joyful wishes should be guiding you.

In the result of my investigation of practitioners I am of the opinion that people with an inclination to be aggressive, have significantly less chances than those who usually feel self-pity (SP). Impudent, hot-tempered and aggressive person is much less capable of investigating his own perceptions than one with SP. The real battle with aggression starts only when you get rid of even its weakest forms like faint irritation and dissatisfaction. The only way to get a chance to eradicate aggression is to have total control of even a trace of dissatisfaction or of a negative attitude and every minute record your condition (every minute estimate from a scale of 1 to 10 for dissatisfaction intensity). Aggression in any form is a horrible infection and the worst form of a disease from NEs and you will have to fight desperately for every minute of your life if you want to defeat aggression. While you experience aggression nothing is possible for you - no development, no practice, no spiritual quest.

It is quite easy to achieve an  eradication of NEs when you have a “couch practice”, that is the practice in comparatively comfortable conditions, when there are no strong negative triggers and you are surrounded by nice people or you live in the countryside and do not interact with unhappy people, etc. But more often the lengthy couch practice leads to a crisis, it is especially possible to happen at the beginning of practice when you are not used to experiencing EPs. This word “crisis” means a state that has no noticeable distresses, but on the other hand there are also no radiant EPs. It is not clear what way to advance. The feeling that “nothing-is-happening” intensifies, the enthusiasm and anticipation decrease to a low critical level. In this situation it is necessary to resort to the “active quest” which enables you to reveal thick layers of NEs and NB, as they could not be revealed without corresponding triggers. It also permits to exercise eradication of NEs in complicated and very complicated situations, when the automatic mechanism of a reaction is especially difficult for eradication. For the realization of the active quest it’s worthwhile to make “social experiments” (SE). In these experiments you place yourself in the position of being attacked by other people.

But it is also good to think over retreat strategies, variants of self-defense, ways of manipulating by surrounding mechanisms (including people’s behavioral mechanisms) in order to avoid unwelcome consequences of people’s negative attitude. This is why it is particularly desirable to observe the law and have a chance to be protected by legal systems in difficult cases.

Following are examples of simple SE:

*) go to the shop and pay the purchase price with the smallest denomination of coins. By law the shop assistant has to accept any money as it is the legal tender. Possible NE of the practitioner is the fear of aggression from the shop assistant and other customers.

*) on public transport do not offer your seat to less fortunate. Possible NE of the practitioner is the fear of aggression and shame.

*) wear dirty clothes and go begging in the underground. Possible NE is shame.

*) play the role of a fool in the company of people you do not know. Possible NE is the feeling of inferiority, resentment and indignation.

Many readers of my book will react negatively to the idea of making such SE. They believe this way the practitioners, along with exercising in NEs elimination, “provoke” and add to other people’s NEs. But my assumptions are the following:

а) it is impossible to provoke NEs in anybody. People choose themselves to experience NEs and do not want to get rid of them. To receive proof in it I recommend that you tell any person (either the first you see or your good friend) you have a method to stop experiencing NEs and ask him whether he wants to achieve it. In 90% of the cases you will have a negative response and will be given a lecture, that “without NEs people become brain dead”. The other 10% will partially agree that they wouldn’t like to experience NEs. Tell them about the PDP and ask them in a couple of days what they have done. Let them tell you in detail what they were doing, what was successful and unsuccessful, what discoveries and observations they had, were there any joyful wishes, etc. Absolute silence will be the response, nobody will bother to lift a finger. This is the proof that nobody wants to be free from NEs, but with a very rare exception.

(Try to “provoke” NEs in a “snout”, in a person who wants to eradicate NEs perfectly, and persistently exercises it, and you will see that you cannot do anything to achieve this task, even if you insult him, cuss him, threaten him, fight with him, etc.)

b) people ALWAYS have constant NEs or NB, if they did not experience them at a certain moment, they would immediately have radiant EPs. So what’s the difference whether you or another customer cause the shop assistant’s aggression? Whether the shop assistant feels bored or angry? More than that, many people prefer the irritation and aggression to the boredom.

c) in these experiments the practitioner does not have a wish to provoke NEs in other people. He is just using the knowledge of the mechanisms, that people cultivate, and he knows what behavior triggers a negative reaction. But if suddenly some person smiles back at you , instead of stereotype irritation, and is at least friendly, then the practitioner will definitely feel better and interested in this person (even in spite of a failed SE).

 

The practice of emotional polish (EmP) is extremely effective for eradication of NB and small NEs. The unique peculiarity of this practice consists of helping to clear the background that you are not even aware of at a given moment. You know it is there only because at this given moment you do not experience any EPs. EmP means you make the effort of NEs eradication even though you are not aware of any NEs. You already have the experience of NEs eradication and it’s not difficult for you to generate these efforts when you do not notice NEs. You can have a schedule of EmP (e.g. 10 minutes of continuous EmP), or link it to certain events (e.g. a glance of a passer-by, because it’s highly possible there will be a small splash of a NA) and so on.

I advise you to think of EmP as cleaning your teeth or as necessary precautions. Until you feel the continuous enlightened background, the EmP practice is effective and never too much.

In order to be well concentrated on EmP it is good to support it with visual images and to have the practice of intensive emotional polish (IEP):

1) An image of a flood of light is created with every inhale. This light is rising from your lower part of stomach into the centre of your chest. The image of the flood should be “tangible” and “syrupy”, dense and radiant.

2) With every exhale the effort is generated to eliminate all perceptions without any differentiation. It is the image of a powerful explosion of light from the centre of your chest, which devastates everything in its path.

3) To ease the fixation, it is worthwhile dividing IEP into acts, series and cycles. Act is one process of IEP for inhale and exhale. The series includes a few acts without breaks (not less than 50 is recommended). Cycle includes a few series with breaks in between cycles (not less than 10 per day recommended). If you use beads of a certain length, it will help you to keep your concentration and not to count.

4) I recommend that every cycle is completed with a written record of your observations on the basis of what you wrote during IEP.

5) You can have as many cycles a day as you like.

 

Eradication of NE while you are sleeping is possible, it is not difficult and doesn’t require you to be able to have lucid dreams. It is enough to practice sincerely and persistently when you do not sleep, and this pattern of NEs eradication will develop and automatically work when you dream. The deeper this practice penetrates your automatic dreams, the higher the level of the dreams’ lucidity which leads to a higher probability that you will get the experience of lucid dreams (LD) and that they will be multiple and very interesting, because (a) you will have a chance to investigate an extensively broader and versatile world, than the world of perceptions when you are not sleeping, (b) in lucid dreams it is much easier to experience radiant and various EPs. See the corresponding chapter for details. 

The side effect of NEs eradication is in your growing capability to see NEs in other people. It will be unusually clear and easy to see NEs as if they are screaming with all their lungs. You will see people as an open book describing all emotions. People will not be able to hide the fact, that they experience NEs, as NEs reveal themselves even in the smallest habits, in gestures, pitches of the voice, a grimace or words. What’s more surprising, they will strongly object that they experience NEs now, and looking at them you will clearly realize what horrible medley of insincerity and dullness these people live with.

It is good to rid yourself of a fear of “unfavourable conditions”. “Unfavourable” is the situation, when you still have not formed the pattern of removing the NEs and experiencing EPs. If you are ready to eradicate NEs and fight to achieve EPs in any situations, then instead of spasmodic fears and frantic escapes you will happily wish to change circumstances, which lead, as experience proves, to a very interesting development of the situation.

Sliding into a dark state of the kind “nothing-is-happening” is already easier to compare than earlier, if you keep being determined and persistent in achieving your goal. I will call this state a “happiness from a nil result”. This is a happiness of persistence and clarity, that you will not give up even in spite of a temporary absence of EPs.

 

There are three key moments in the process of a perception eradication: (1) separate out the perception and identify it as unwelcome (in all the group of perceptions) because you have a wish not to experience it; (2) stop associating the perception with “me” and “my” and start to consider it as a separate and unwelcome perception;( 3) make an effort and eradicate the unwelcome perception.

The first moment is very simple. The third seems the most complicated at a first glance, but actually you already have the experience of making efforts in the conflict of wishes. These efforts are joyful and anticipated, when you are confident, that “you” want it, and this is in “your” interests, then the obstructing wish is removed from the conceptual identification of “mine” and is easily surmounted. Same in practicing, you shift the unwelcome perception out from the protective “me” concept shield, and the efforts of its eradication become more effective. When you achieve clarity in this, it will allow you to wish to investigate this process and seek for the new effective techniques to stop the association of the unwelcome perception with “me”.

 

01-06) One more resonating description of an effort to eradicate NEs is the “recurring attention” (“RA”), and correspondingly the practice is called “the practice of recurring attention”. I find it right to use this phrase “recurring attention” for the beginning to describe the effort of NEs eradication, because the word “attention” has been integrated in our language exceptionally well, the same with the notion  of the “past”. Even a superficial analysis will be enough to realize, that any perception, no matter what it is, always exists only now, and the “past” is just a word, denoting a group of thoughts including the word “was”. It is the same with the word “attention”. When I say “I paid attention to the cow”, it means, that the perception of the cow was especially strong and stable in that place.

Here I will also give the definition of the word “concentration”, which is often used together with the word “attention”. If there are ten different perceptions (visual perception of a few things, thoughts, emotions) during a certain period of time at a certain place, and another same period of time – only five perceptions, then I say “I intensified my attention on a chosen object”, or in short , “concentrated on it”. Thus the word “concentration” can be given a definite meaning good for use, because quite often there appears a wish to grasp only a limited number of perceptions at a given moment, for example, perceive only EPs, or a discussion on some topic. If you try to concentrate on some perception, but instead you are more attracted to another (e.g. by mechanical habit), we say, that your attention “is captured”. But if there is a mixture of various perceptions instead of concentration on one you want, we then say, that your attention is “scattered”.

The practice of RA consists of “bringing back” your attention, if it is captured by some chaotic diversions (either NEs, or mechanical wishes, or a mechanical inner dialogue, or different visual perceptions, etc.). Your attention is “diverted from the object” and after that either “leave” it free or direct it to some welcome perception. If we talk the language of perceptions, the practice of RA consists of replacing one perception with another, but this replacement with the help of your imagination, that is the imaginative language of “seizures” and “returns”, can be very effective in exercising the pattern of perception replacements.

Mechanical thoughts steal your attention with a sharp and short strike, like a seagull catches a fish, this is why it is good to counteract with a swift and concentrated effort. NEs hijack your attention in a violent act, like a shark rips apart a piece of meat, so it’s good to counteract with a powerful and fierce effort. Mechanical wishes steal your attention in a quiet manner, not always rapidly, but confidently, like Rome regiments laid siege to Carthage, this is why it is good to counteract with an tough and enduring effort equal to an elephant.

Here is an example of recording perceptions in the practice of RA.

*) I stop any activity, I sit and do not do anything, eradicate ID and NEs

*) a state of clarity appears

*) the state of clarity clouds over and disperses

*) the state of dullness ensues

*) crossroads: whether to get rid of dullness and return to the clarity or give up. Let us concede, that the mechanical wish of dullness outweighs the wish of EPs

*) a spasmodic wish of impressions follows to suppress dullness

*) you start the quest of an object for your attention to adhere to

*) an object is found, your attention is adhered to it

*) dullness is suppressed, satisfaction and interest will come

*) in a certain period of time satiety ensues, tiredness, dissatisfaction, loss of interest. The state of dullness returns. 

*) again the mechanical wish of dullness outweighs the wish of EPs

*) the mechanical wish of new impressions follows to alleviate dullness

*) a new object for your attention is re-discovered 

*) the wish to eradicate the enclosed circle “dullness – search of impressions – satisfaction – satiety – tiredness” overpowers the wish to maintain it, and the effort is made to return the attention. The attention is taken from the object and is either freed or directed to an enlightened factor (a perception-trigger, associated with EP).

*) regret for the loss of impressions will appear.

*) I eradicate regret

*) the usual pattern tries to reoccur and the dullness tries to strengthen 

*) I eradicate dullness, let us concede that it is done with in and out success

*) the spasmodic thirst for impressions reoccurs again and again

*) I continue patiently to return my attention again and again in spite of the regret for the loss of my impressions, which is also eradicated

*) after a number of such cycles there comes a strong tiredness, but it is a good and healthy fatigue

*) an enlightened background comes and intensifies

*) there appears a feeling of overflowing expansion in your chest

*) states of dullness and clarity change kaleidoscopically, dullness can be replaced with a feeling of an amazing profoundness and freshness and vice versa  

*) intensive and “swelling” feelings lead to the need to “rest”

*) I record that the “wish to have a rest” is a mechanical wish to return to the usual state of dispersed attention and dullness

*) there appears a persistency directed to overcome the wish “to have a rest” and so on.

 

Eradication of the mechanical wish of impressions (MWI) is more complicated when this urge is stronger, and the stronger it is, the more intensive and the more usual the background of dullness and boredom builds. Being a negative dominant it is quite often not even realized. Redirecting your attention from MWI is extremely difficult. It extracts all your strength, sometimes you even have despicable “convulsions” and it only once again proves how much you are hooked on these impressions and try to use them to suppress the NB. In the beginning of RA practice even one or two hours of idleness (simply sitting or lying on the couch) is a real torture like colliding with the powerful NB head on. I recommend that from time to time while practicing RA you make records of perceptions as described above. That will allow you to achieve clarity in the activities and track results. When you compare your records and feelings, you will see, that every day your practice gets less and less torturous and more often it will be accompanied by EPs splashes with anticipation and interest to the experience. Little by little your addiction will be overpowered.

While practicing RA you can have attacks of depressing and boundless loneliness, anguish, despair, groundless aggression, etc.  It means, that earlier all these NEs were a part of your dominant NB and you did not notice they were intoxicating you, but now, when they are revealed, you can eradicate them. When you refuse from MWI, you will deprive yourself from injecting the drug called “impressions”, then “withdrawals” appear and you want at least a little bit of impressions, but if you give up you will experience a miniscule death, because at first it is a bit easier, but then dullness and NEs overburden you twice as strong. If you admit that you are addicted, it will allow you to start very seriously with the eradication of this addiction which is obstructing to experience EPs.

Time stretches extremely during the RA practice. One hour of effort accommodates as many discoveries, observations, hypothesis, ideas, whereas usually it takes a few days.

 

01-07) Among the mistakes which have not been yet browsed through, I will select the following:

1) Many people consider, that it is impossible to eradicate NEs, because they are the consequences of wrong interpretations and likewise. They believe fighting consequences is as useless as taking the pain relief and it’s expected that you treat a disease, while it is necessary to deal with the illness, not with pain, and take antibiotics, not Aspirin.  Sometimes they also say, that enough is enough, just change your point of view and NEs will not appear. Realize that everything is Atman and it will change. As a matter of fact:

а) The minimum experience of NEs eradication proves that the work with concepts does not replace the effort of NEs eradication, because the well-established pattern of experiencing NEs works, no matter how strong the supporting concept is.

b) While you think of the reasons, NE lives on and grows all this time and attracts new NEs feeding the NB. As a result you will lose, while perfect NE eradication kills it instantly.

c) The minimum experience of NEs eradication also proves, that it is possible and not at all difficult, gradually the old pattern of experiencing NEs dies, and a new pattern of eradicating NEs and experiencing EPs appears. 

d) NE is not a physical pain, and the analogy made earlier is wrong, because it transfers laws thoughtlessly from one area to another.

How do we differentiate between a “reason” and a “consequence”?  If I have a toothache, I take a pain relief, but in an hour pain reappears and intensifies. In this case I call pain as a “consequence”, and dental caries as a “reason” and I treat caries thinking that I am dealing with a “reason”, and indeed the pain stops. But in three months caries reoccurs, and then I call it a “consequence” and find the reason is not brushing my teeth. Dietitian will discover even a deeper “reason” in my poorly balanced nutrition. Psychotherapist will call the unbalanced diet as a “consequence” of a child’s complex of inferiority or trauma, psychoanalyst will call it a “consequence” finding the “reason” in birth trauma.  But a Buddhist will call the same birth trauma a “consequence” of wrong behaviour in a past life.

This is why depending on the frequency and the intensity of the toothache, as well as my interest in the matter, I deal with my pain at all levels. First of all I take pain relief, then I go to the dentist, then I purchase toothpaste and start brushing my teeth, keep to my diet, visit a psychoanalyst and begin singing mantras.

Let us have a look at another variant. I have cut my hand and I disinfect it (because I have the experience, or know of somebody’s experience, that if you do not disinfect you can get an infection), apply some healing ointment, and if it is healed I forget about it. Now imagine a person who has a cut and it is healing but he is thinking: “no, the cut is only the consequence, there must be a reason”, and he is looking for the “reason”, he imagines it and even refuses to apply healing remedies, because he wants to deal with the “reason”, and not the consequence! We think of such behaviour as stupid, because the cut is successfully getting healed due to an application of medicine, so why imagine the “reasons” and refuse treatment with an abscess as an end result? It is the same with NEs eradication. When you suppress NEs (which means you still go on experiencing them, you suppress only what is revealed), NB and NEs intensify and lead to understanding that suppression does not bring liberation from them.  When you start eradicating NEs (switch over from NEs to EPs and stop experiencing NEs completely at a given moment), you are getting the experience, that NB decreases and the pattern of NEs weakens and there are no side effects, but on the contrary there will appear very welcomed consequences in the form of intensified and more frequent EPs, so why think over the “reasons” and “consequences”? Acquire your own experience, eradicate NEs and get the proof that there is no reason to identify this activity as a “treatment of consequences”. Acquire your experience, that if you do not eradicate NEs, but instead think over the “reasons”, then the “wound” will start being infected, wrong concepts will strengthen, joyful wishes will decline, your body will feel worse and your life will become a nightmare. TRUST YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, not somebody else’s words.

e) In this interrelated spiral of distresses it is impossible to identify what the “reason” is and what the “consequence” is, because one distress attracts another.

f) The comparison of the results for your efforts to eradicate NEs and the thoughts of reasoning will speak for itself.

 

2) Some cunning and clever technique is being researched to enable you to get rid of the NEs without any efforts, something like Big Red Button (BRB), you press it and all problems disappear. People try to use whatever possible as a BRB, like sitting in a certain posture, performing spells, fasting, making themselves busy with sports, sex, meditations, thinking over and talking about the integrity of the universe and so on, whatever, but not making an effort to eradicate NEs.

It means that such a person has no wish to eradicate NEs (he only thinks he has it) or it is very weak, much weaker than the wish to experience NEs. The quest of the BRB is fruitless, and to hope is pointless.

 

3) After the successful act of NE eradication there may be some fear, that NE will return according to the old pattern, and again you have to get rid of it. It leads to a spasmodic wish to hold this state of relative freedom from the NE. And sure enough this fear brings back the NE even faster, and it attracts new NEs.

I recommend that you meet NEs fearlessly, with determination, persistence and face to face, not being afraid of them coming back repeatedly, because these old patterns are very strong, but you will be able to exercise the effort in their perfect eradication. Don’t be in a position of the victim, be a hunter for NEs, track them down and feel the anticipation of a new experience, new victories as well as defeats, which will inevitably bring the desirable result.

 

4) There may be a misguided assumption, that there are so many distresses, and the achievement of perfection in eradication of just one NE takes ages, as a result life will not be long enough for you to deal with all the distresses, and while you deal with just one of them, all others will intensify.

This assumption is all wrong. Even a little experience is enough to discover, that it is hard to eradicate NEs in the beginning. Gradually you will form the patterns and acquire the skills for making the efforts, the wishes of EPs experiencing and NEs eradicating intensify and become easier and faster every time you do it. Achieving progress in eradication of one distress is similar to pulling the thread from material, you pull the thread in one spot, but the material will show a defect through its entire width, that is the work with one distress will ease the work with the others. Besides, the further you advance in your practice, the more frequent are the EPs and the more interesting it becomes to live, there is more enthusiasm, persistency, anticipation and determination. Your life time lengthens tenfold, one day you will accommodate as many experiences as you had in a month.

I consider two years of intensive and sincere practice are enough to achieve the perfect eradication of NEs and the continuous enlightened background.

 

5) If you have the wish to avoid some part of the practice (e.g. you do not want to disperse concepts or develop your sexuality or eradicate a NE, etc.), it means this is the area of your strongest distresses and you give up in advance. If you want to achieve progress in the PDP, you definitely have to choose the line of your main activity according to your joyful wish, not according to the concept of the kind “I must develop in all aspects”.  But if in some aspect you feel a strong rejection or fear that is caused by just an idea of dealing with it, it means that here you have very strong distresses. Be aware of it, eliminate your fears and a negative attitude, catch every splash of anticipation from the thought, that you can do it, this is just the matter of your sincerity in the aspiration for the EPs.

 

6) There is a point of view: “If you accidentally run into a bear in the woods, fright will take over thoughts and emotions. This is the moment when the body changes its chemistry and produces adrenalin, but because it’s a natural reaction of the body, which is not overruled by the mind, is there a point and a need to avoid it?

When you see a bear in a zoo, by some reason you are not scared, but you are amazed and fascinated. It proves it’s not the perception of the bear that caused the fright, but it was caused by a chain of thoughts you were not aware of: “the wild bear – free – dangerous”, this is why there appeared NEs and related negative feelings in the body.  The same example proves, that not the chemical changes of the body inevitably bring the NEs, but vice versa, NEs inevitably cause chemical changes of the body, and this has already been discussed earlier, when I stated, that any illness and ageing are consequences of NEs. The pattern of being scared at the sight of a bear can be changed as well, this will also allow you to think faster and clearer and react if there is danger.

 

7) Main difficulty of NEs eradication consists not in the overpowering of its pattern, as it may seem, but in not being sincere enough. The practitioner does not notice or does not want to notice, that actually he is trying to find side routes instead of the direct path of NEs eradication, because he is reluctant to halt NEs and at the same time to have EPs.  Such a practitioner reminds of the swan, the lobster and the pike pulling in opposite directions, this is why the efforts are ineffective. Usually the insincere practitioner wants to talk about NEs instead of eradicating them. Hours and hours he can talk about his problems, day after day ask the questions of the kind “how shall I eradicate NEs”, “why did it happen”, make excuses like he cannot identify what exact NE he is experiencing at that moment, though differentiating NEs is not a necessary condition for their eradication, you can eradicate the “foul state” as a whole. When you have NEs, there is no point in thinking, this will not lead to the eradication, besides your mind can be not very clear at that moment, because NEs cause dullness and obstruct consecutive and creative thinking. First eradicate NE, then think if you like, this is the effective performance.

 

8) There is a wide spread delusion, that if you want to halt NEs, it is enough to “accept everything as it is”, just realize your NEs, accept them as they are, ask yourself “who is experiencing them?” , relax, stop identifying them as welcome or unwelcome and they will vanish.

Such a point of view is an excuse allowing you to have NEs, it is a way of cheating yourself and others. It is especially spread among “esoteric people”, i.e. people who want to impress others with their wise and profound speeches, important looks, who want to be recognized as “teachers”, but do not want to stop NEs. It is nearly impossible to hide NEs, they are always noticeable for an attentive person who can judge by the face, voice and manners, that is why an “esoteric person” says: “I am not just experiencing NEs, I am observing them and do not assimilate with them, they do not have power over me”. In reality this is just a juggling of words and if you are experiencing a NE, it is impossible “not to assimilate” with it, because a “person” is a set of perceptions, and if in this set there is a NE, then he is the one who is experiencing a NE and no word games can change that. If a person doesn’t start eradicating a NE at the moment it appears, it means he wants to go on with it, and his situation is utterly hopeless if he is not sincere and does not realize that his wish to experience a NE is stronger. How can such a person “teach”, if he is not sincere, wants to experience NEs, he is cheating himself and others with his abstruse speeches?

While you “accept everything as it is”, “observe and not assimilate”, the pattern of experiencing NEs will only intensify.

 

9) As a result of the consecutive development of civilization a number of people is steadily growing who aspire to the creation and the accumulation rather than destruction and dull vegetating (exceptions to this rule are known from news broadcasts). But in this problem of choice what to accumulate, perfect, create, there is a total confusion, and when a person makes his choice, he is guided by stereotypes, wrong concepts and not by his wish.

а) Accumulating money. How much does a person need to purchase everything that pleases him? Is one million dollars not enough? Especially if you put your money to a conservative bank and live on the interest, then half the amount will be enough. In the USA there are more than one million people with a fortune greater than $1 million. Did they stop their business activity, vacate the commercial area for others and enjoy their life? Nothing of the kind. They go on working ten hours a day every day to earn more millions and so on. This is not accumulation, it is an addiction. This is a paradox, but they do not have time to enjoy their life and they spend all their time like a squirrel in a wheel. Also how many people are there wasting their life and earning nothing to speak of?

b) Accumulation of things. Things can be damaged, broken, stolen, or they can go out of fashion, all this can make an accumulator’s life a nightmare. If you have had a car you have been driving for five years and you can drive for ten years longer, why do you need to buy a new one? Is it only producing an impression for other people (keeping up with the Jones’s)? Or is it to get more comfort, is it so necessary, will it make you happier? If you work harder and earn more, you can buy a better car (or a country house, or furniture, depends on what fixation you have). After that if you earn more, you can buy a more luxurious model. You can also purchase lots of things on credit and after that having to pay them off for the next 30 years… Is it an addiction? Did these purchases make anybody happy? Look at the faces of those possessing the expensive cars, and it will become clear, that their faces are distorted with suffering, NEs as well as the faces of other people, and maybe even more. People have forgotten, that things are for people, and have become servants for things.

c) Education. A person can spend a few years and receive another degree which will quite often not give him any advantage either at work, or an interaction with other people, or, what is more, get any pleasure. The sense of your own importance is growing of course, but it makes you more helpless and inclined to resentment, self-pity, unable to follow your joyful wishes, to be open and kind. You cram your head with lots of rubbish and after that you receive a certificate witnessing that you have one more garbage bin in your head and that your hands and feet have acquired a few more skills that you will hardly ever apply. Information can be forgotten, your skills need regular practice, and as a result you can forget about enjoying your life. All your tertiary diplomas are framed and mounted on the wall and certificates for a skydiving, scuba diving, paragliding and tourism only remind you that the skills are being reduced, the money you paid is wasted, and right now you are bored and have to cope with dullness and other NEs as you do not have any joyful wishes.

d) Children and grandchildren are indeed a huge bottomless pit, millions of people invest their lives in them. Have you heard this: “I live for my children”?  This is met with every step. A woman gives birth to a child and from this moment she does not have to have joyful wishes, she has no time for that as now she has lots of “I must”, “I should”, “I have to”, “it’s sensible to”, etc. Lots of caring, concerns, no time for anything else, including realizing that all this “life for children” is just an addictive drug you take. It’s not worth mentioning, that children do not want their parents “to live for them”, thus making themselves speechless creatures who have no free time and no choice of what to do. They want freedom from the parents care and surveillance, which quite often takes a form of primitive and rough physical and psychological violence. The longer a person lives “for his children”, the higher degree of his dependence on the addiction from “upbringing” of the children. If the upbringing was “successful”, resulting in obedient and listless mechanisms, now they get bored together and fight with each other, or shift their addiction onto the grandchildren. But if the upbringing was “not a success”, children send their parents as far away as possible and NEs overpower the parents again with a new intense strength.

There are lots of examples of the kind, but all of them have one thing in common, and this is the wrong object of the accumulation. During the process of this accumulation and due to the result of this process NEs intensify as well as the addiction from impressions, and the person’s insecurity regarding the safety and the using of things he has accumulated, also is growing with an increasing feeling of his life being useless. He remains with a broken wash basin and is either rapidly and completely destroyed, or he has to intoxicate himself persuading that his life was not empty and looking for new objects for accumulation while trying to close his eyes and not to see this accumulation does not make his life happy.

Differently from all that PDP allows you to have a unique object for accumulation, these are enlightened perceptions that profile a person, i.e. not what “he possesses”, but what he is himself. You do not need anything, except being alive, to make the journey in the world of EPs. It is impossible to deprive you of these accumulated “possessions”, these possessions don’t need to be dusted and don’t age or expire.  This is an exclusive and unique chance for a person’s way out of the deadlock that he has been trapped in for thousands years.

 

01-08) While you are eradicating the strong NEs, you discover a whole swarm of minor NEs, which you have experienced but did not notice in the background of more intensive NEs.  You discover it while trying to find a reason why your EPs are so rare and weak, even though you eradicate NEs perfectly and have a wish to strengthen EPs. In this case you can make a “consolidation”. What earlier you would identify as a “3” or a “4” on the scale of intensity, now you will estimate as a “10” and thus all “minor” NEs, that earlier you were not even aware of, will get significantly higher in intensity rating and will be revealed and eradicated. The NEs that were estimated on the old scale as 3 to 10, now will be identified as “exceeding the limits”.

Make the “attacks” of total control and try to be aware of the tiniest splashes of NEs, even when you are not sure if there really was a NE. As a result you will find that during half an hour you experience not just 5 or 6 NEs as you have been thinking, but 50, 100! They seem to be so minor, but when you eradicate them perfectly, there appears a very strong splash of EPs frequency and intensity. Then it becomes clear, that those “minor” NEs are not minor at all, as their effect on EPs is paralyzing and their eradication leads to EPs intensity.

Qualitative consolidation always brings awareness, that if earlier you could reveal only a few NEs, now you discover tenfold.

When you practice consolidation I recommend that you divide your day with 5 minute periods for recording the number of NEs (and eradicate them, of course).  The more there is of such 5 minute dividing periods, the more successful consolidation is. If you dedicate a few hours a day to this exercise, then in a few days you will form the welcome pattern of noticing and eradicating “minor” NEs.

Technically it is very simple to eradicate the micro-NEs, but it requires a very high degree of attentiveness, because they are so tiny and hardly noticeable, that it is very difficult to tune yourself into their complete and perfect eradication. But ignoring them is dangerous and wasteful. Dangerous because they appear one after another, thus feeding the NB and blocking EPs. Wasteful because the perfect eradication of micro-NEs leads to the unexpected increase of the intensity and duration of EPs.

While the number of NEs is decreasing and of the EPs is increasing, there appears and intensifies an “effect of a longer day”. Just during one day you will experience as much as for a week, two weeks or a month. It is especially clear when you compare the number and the significance of your discoveries that are recorded in your diary, and it is especially revealed while you are practicing consolidation. As a result and due to the practicing consolidation the real life expectancy grows tenfold.

 

01-09) It often happens, that you are not aware of either EPs, or NEs – “nothing-is-happening”. Which means, that at this given moment there is NB, because if you have neither NEs nor NB, there must be an EP. This is how this NB is called – “nothing-is-happening” (“NIH”). If NIH has a low intensity, then PE splashes happen often and the NB is called the “light-grey state” (“LGS”). I will call this trinity of perceptions: satisfaction, NIH and LGS as “SNL”.

When you get to the finalizing stage of eradication of strong and frequent NEs, the problem of SNL will present itself in full capacity, because SNL are absolutely incompatible with EPs. The person suffering from dominating NEs for many years and considering his total life, that SNL save him from his sufferings, will not easily say good bye to SNL. Sometimes he will “plunge” into these states until he feels disgusted and aspires to EPs, but even after that overpowering the pattern of SNL is not an easy task.

The wish of PEs is strongly revealed in the background of SNL, which is often called the “wish of impressions” (“Wimp”). The concept of Wimp also includes the wish of all activities that would please a person and bring PEs, like reading a book, watching a movie, talking, sometimes even “lip-synch practice”, i.e. imitate practicing through copying its outward forms (most frequent form of imitation is empty discussions about the practice). 

I recommend in order to overpower SNL and Wimp that all formal practices are to be actively used to their maximum, like expressing your wish [of experiencing EPs] aloud, generating EPs, emotional polish and so on. Formal practices will be effective if you exercise them not less than 1000 acts per day, with the optimum series of 20-50-100 acts on completing each series with a free quest of EPs and “attentive sensing” of EPs.