Effects of Labeling
Some of the effects I notice from labeling...
- Shift from content to seeing
The "center of gravity" shifts from content to the seeing of the content. Or rather, it shifts from being blindly caught up in content and identified with it, to the Witness, pure awareness. - Link revealed as not real
The apparent link between the perception (situation, event) and the story about it is seen as not real, as arising due to another story of its reality. It falls away. - Allowed their own life
Perceptions are allowed their own life, freed from the stories about them. And the stories are allowed their own life, freed from belief in and attachment to them. - Fall into themselves before conglomerating
The perceptions fall into themselves, and the stories fall into themselves, as perceptions are seen as simply perceptions and thoughts as simply thoughts. They fall into themselves before they can conglomerate into a larger apparent unit. - Celibacy
There is a form of celibacy in this. When perceptions and stories conglomerate, they spawn innumerable other stories and consequences. A whole world is created, the whole drama of (conventional) human life comes into existence. When they are seen as simply perceptions and thoughts, they fall into themselves and the spawning does not take place (or if it does, is small scale and short lived). - Absence of drama
Since the connection between perceptions and stories is seen through, and the attachment to stories fall away, there is an absence of drama. - Still joy
There is a still joy in this, just seeing perceptions and thoughts as perceptions and thought. There is a deep stillness, within and as which everything happens. Everything arising is met intimately with awareness, and recognized as awareness itself. - Clarity
With the stillness, there is also clarity - the inherent clarity of mind. The clarity which seems to always be here, although sometimes hidden by the dust kicked up by beliefs in thoughts and the drama this creates. - Alive intelligence
And there is also an alive intelligence here, the inherent alive intelligence of the mind - distinct from thoughts and stories. This too is revealed beneath the dust clouds.
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