Thread: Gravity RC Tutorial

I think that more important than mindfulness is insight, but you can't develop it if you are always lost in automatic reactions. But it's not necessary to be always hypervigilant and aware. In my view it is very easy to catalyze very short lived insights that will undermine our solid perceptions with time. The method i now use is to cultivate uncontrived awe and a sense of mystery at existence, and compare this speechless and almost nonceptual state that arises with the habitual reactive, labelling state, taking everything for granted. It's ok to use our intellect but without this recognition of pure perception that arises when your mind doesn't know everything even if for a short moment, which is probably very much like a reality check but one that i see as a truly meaningful and ultimate, you will be likewise feeling like nonlucid living. Then it becomes more and more obvious how we and everyone else are simply constantly identified with our thoughts and playing roles and egos.
Then it becomes a matter of seing your self referential thoughts decreasing with time and a natural sense of nowness arrives without effort because your mind doesnt have anywhere to go.

As to my LD rates it's pretty much daily, but i dont recall them very well, although they last much more. They feel like semilucids. Beyond intention to recognize waking and dreaming perceptions as pure and not self referential, i haven't practiced any other thing. But i see a close relationship between my waking life practice of short moments and lucidity, so therefore i think this will improve but i am ready to accept that dreaming may not come anymore, as it is stated by some mystics. Ultimately, lucid dreaming is a tool and not an end in itself.

Edit: it is not likely that self referential thoughts and emotions will decrease, indeed it may seem like they increase because now you are recognizing them so much more.
But in time, with the stability of insight, you can take the amount of self processing time as a sign of progress.