Comments on: Let’s Poop! http://kentonwhitman.com/2008/03/17/lets-poop/ Zen-Inspired Self Development Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:09:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kenton Whitman http://kentonwhitman.com/2008/03/17/lets-poop/comment-page-1/#comment-38693 Kenton Whitman Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:49:59 +0000 http://kentonwhitman.com/blog/2008/03/17/lets-poop/#comment-38693 Greetings dejj, My challenge to you would be to sit down, examine your mind's workings, and see if you can discover this sensation of 'being thought inside of you'. Our thought-forms seem layered, and they seem to source from somewhere, but never can we find anything except our bare perceptions. Even the idea of 'inside of us' must be challenged if we are going to look without applying belief. If we utilize belief, then we can create a whole array of stories. But what do we discover when we examine each and every belief, and attend to the only true evidence we have? What then do we discover? Sweetwater, Kenton Greetings dejj,

My challenge to you would be to sit down, examine your mind’s workings, and see if you can discover this sensation of ‘being thought inside of you’. Our thought-forms seem layered, and they seem to source from somewhere, but never can we find anything except our bare perceptions. Even the idea of ‘inside of us’ must be challenged if we are going to look without applying belief.
If we utilize belief, then we can create a whole array of stories. But what do we discover when we examine each and every belief, and attend to the only true evidence we have? What then do we discover?

Sweetwater,
Kenton

]]> By: dejj http://kentonwhitman.com/2008/03/17/lets-poop/comment-page-1/#comment-38665 dejj Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:05:39 +0000 http://kentonwhitman.com/blog/2008/03/17/lets-poop/#comment-38665 While doing this, do not think _too_ much. Instead of thinking about p., you could begin thinking about thinking about p. This will appear to you as deeply philosophical and for a while it will be good. But after your p. is over and you realize that nothing has been learned, this feeling too fades. At this point you must then admit that it is not you who is thinking, but that it _is being thought_ inside of you (Nietzsche). And all you need to do is to provide yourself with distractions, novel ones, that have not distracted you before, like pooping, like philosophy. While doing this, do not think _too_ much.
Instead of thinking about p., you could begin thinking about thinking about p.
This will appear to you as deeply philosophical and for a while it will be good. But after your p. is over and you realize that nothing has been learned, this feeling too fades.
At this point you must then admit that it is not you who is thinking, but that it _is being thought_ inside of you (Nietzsche). And all you need to do is to provide yourself with distractions, novel ones, that have not distracted you before, like pooping, like philosophy.

]]> By: Kenton Whitman http://kentonwhitman.com/2008/03/17/lets-poop/comment-page-1/#comment-38042 Kenton Whitman Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:39:38 +0000 http://kentonwhitman.com/blog/2008/03/17/lets-poop/#comment-38042 Yes! =) Kenton Yes!

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Kenton

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