weirdway

I might not have worded it properly

Exactly. It's actually non-trivial to word things well when explaining magick. It takes a lot of effort and attention and practice.

The means of getting to the state you described will vary for different people, for me personally, I've chosen the "just being" state as my means.

Whatever floats your boat. From my POV the state I am talking about is so drastically different or even flat-out contradictory to the conventional state, that there is no overly smooth and totally gradual way of getting to it. In my experience it's a gradual process that's marked by some challenges, growth spurts, sudden breakthroughs, crushing fears followed by 10 steps back, only to later make 20 steps forward again due to a diamond-like resolve, and so on. It's not such a simple and straightforward process.

I've been harping how "all is mind" all my adult life, but my understanding has grown. It's not that I ever was wrong in the past or I said wrong things, it's just that I didn't know the half of it. I was right, but I didn't know how and why I was right as exactly as I know it today.

So even if someone understands something correctly, it doesn't mean they understand if fully. There are progressive stages of deepening that attend even the most correct understanding, provided one keeps making continual efforts and remains resolute.

I'm not against the talk of "just being" but to me it sounds very close to relaxing. I think relaxing is very necessary and is healthy, but how specifically one relaxes, the various details of that relaxation, and the ratio of relaxation to effort, and the details of effort, it all matters in the end. Too much relaxation is not very good either. I think "just being" tends to cultivate the tolerance side much more than it cultivates expressiveness, but a complete mage in my view needs both sides to be well developed.

Here tolerance means being undisturbed and basically "OK" no matter what experience is like. And expressiveness means being able to intend anything at any time, without being led by suggestive appearances. So expressiveness is helped by having a giant imagination and also by not allowing appearances to function as a metaphysical leash to one's mind (being informed by appearances, and even flowing along with the appearances is still being led by them to some extent, and it's like being leashed up by what appears).

To me an ideal state is not only just this or only just that. It's more like this: when I relax, I relax well. When I intend something to happen, I intend well. When I stay still, I stay still well. When I move, I move well. It's to be excellent in every aspect instead of cultivating this kind of floaty attitude all the time. One has to have a big range instead of cultivating a narrow range. That said, if you were habitually a busybody in your recent past, then to overcome the disease of excessive struggle and effort, as an antidote, one can cultivate "just being." But once your prior excess has been settled down, it's better to return to cultivating oneself across a broad range of attitudes instead of just sticking to one attitude of floating along.

Eliminate resistance by accepting your circumstances (being non-attached) and your intention will manifest, obviously easier said than done of course.

I don't agree. On the contrary -- reject your circumstances completely. Don't accept anything. Don't even accept the sky and the Earth.

All appearances are false. Only my will is true.

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-09-11 17:09:55 (dmuil0u)