Quote from The Direct Path

The Direct Path: A User Guide

by Greg Goode 

Non Duality Press, Salisbury, United Kingdom, 2012.   235 pages

“This book consists of a set of experiments, with explanatory text. The book’s purpose is to deeply investigate many different aspects of experience, including sensation, perception, bodily feeling and motion, waking and sleeping, emotion, attention, thought, rationality, and the sense of being a single, global, unlimited witness of all that arises. What we discover in every case is that there are actually no independent objects experienced at any time. There is never any separation or otherness, but simply love, openness, clarity, sweetness, awareness - in short, your true nature itself. This approach is often called the ‘tattvopadesha’, a sequential, logically connected presentation of the teaching from beginning to end.” (p. 1)

           “Experiment 18 - A Purely Conceptual Thought

Purpose - Discovering whether a conceptual thought represents anything objective.
Objects needed - A table or desk. A chair. A pen. A piece of paper. Four matchsticks or paper clips.
Setup - Sit at the table. Place the pen and paper in front of you. Arrange the four matchsticks or paper clips in front of you.
The Experiment - Begin with the Heart Opener so that you get a taste for being the open clear spaciousness of awareness.
1) Our ‘conceptual thought’ will be an abstract one. (B) 2+2=4.
2) Get a good ‘feel’ for this thought. Write down the numbers on the piece of paper. Perform addition as you would in grade school arithmetic class. Play with the matchsticks. Put two of them in front of you, then count them. Add two more. Count those. Then count the total number of matchsticks.
3) Get a good ‘feel’ - what does it feel like to believe this thought? Try to make the belief strong.
4) Imagine as vividly as you can just how you would test this belief. Remember belief is the commitment to the truth behind thought. When we think a thought points to something true, we most often think that there is some accurate mirroring going on somehow. There is a long history in which mathematics is regarded as being written into nature beyond thought. . .” (pp. 132-133)

-- quote submitted by Matt M.

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