You came to hear someone else speak? That reminds me of, you know, when I was outside of Munster, there was this sign where there was always a stow. For a couple of years, because there was some construction. Somebody had written, you think you're in a stow. But you are the stow. Yeah. Okay. Anybody? Yes. I'm still wondering about the difference between discursive thinking and intentional thinking.

[01:02]

I mean, I have a feeling for it. I know the difference. But then I wonder, the intentional thinking, I think there's a trap that actually comes out of discursive thinking. So does the intentional thinking come more out of the body's sensational feelings or something like that? Deutsch, bitte. He doesn't turn on normal. I know he doesn't on normal. Do I do the German? I didn't get the last part. Discursive thinking comes out of the body, did you say? Sometimes I think there might be a trap that one thinks, or I think is intentional thinking, but actually it's the intentional thinking that comes out of discursive thinking.

[02:11]

I understand. Most New Year resolutions are disguised discursive thinking. So they last about as long as political promises. But, you know, you can arrive at a intention through discursive thinking. But the intention then has to have a certain kind of feel and form before it can become an intention.

[03:14]

Like a line of poetry or something, or lines you remember. So there's a certain craft or skill to shaping an intention so you can hold it so it doesn't become discursive thinking. But sometimes intentions don't come through discursive thinking, but they're just built into you. The most fundamental intention all of us have is the decision to stay alive. One part of you even is thinking, like, I'm tired of living, I'm getting old. Well, still, somebody drops a stone on you, you duck. Someone else?

[04:19]

Yes. I have a question. It is said that every thought, every relationship, said that a thought gathers associations or informations which belong to it, which support this thought. So that when I feel separated there are conversations which support and sort of prove that this is true.

[05:20]

So far it's clear. Is there a sense in forming this thought not separated when I don't have access to it? to that thought being connected or not separate. Okay, it's what you're saying, that say that you don't, that you do feel separated. You don't feel connected.

[06:21]

But you form the thought which you don't feel connected. You form the thought already connected, but you don't feel connected with it. That activity would be called wisdom. Because you are... you're creating an intention as an antidote to the intention that's built into you. And you start repeating it to yourself. So you're fighting fire with fire or something like that. You bring this created intention this antidotal intention into your body and it can change the way you feel. Yeah. It really works. Yes. Does this sort of imply a certain amount, a minimum of experience of that?

[07:54]

In forming the intention, you mean, or in holding an intention? Oh yes, you get better at it. No, I think she means, is there a sort of threshold where you can do that? Can you just do it without having had any experience of it before? Well, you have to start somewhere. So even the decision to start is already maybe 80% of it. The problem is the last 20% is the hard part. But you're nowhere if you haven't made the decision to try it. So you, you know, you I mean, you can't wait till you have experience to do it because then you'd never have experience. Anyway, in other words, you can start now. It actually works.

[09:03]

And if you see and believe in the power of it, have faith in the power of it. I don't know how you get there, but say you have faith in the power of it. You'll get better and better at it. Now I know that in my own experience when I took real consciously... Consciously? Took an intention. I tried it in various ways. But the time I really tried it, it took me a year and one quarter until... what I was saying came true. And I forgot it for about three months in the middle.

[10:06]

But when I happened to remember it again, I didn't say, oh, you stupid guy, you forgot it for three months. I just started again. And when I thought about it again, I thought, you stupid guy, now you've said it three times. I just started again. And you can try it with anything. It doesn't work. You know, as I said the other night to somebody, we have a lot of buffalo around us in Crestone. And I recently said to someone, we have a lot of buffalo around us in Crestone. They even discovered, which is quite interesting, in the midst of the commercial herd of buffalo, they discovered there was several hundred ancient buffalo. I mean, you know, DNA, not commercially raised buffalo, buffalo from Indian times that somehow had snuck into the herd and survived from the buffalo. So I know the guy who started, believe it or not, a Japanese man started this buffalo herd in Colorado.

[11:08]

And he said, you can only get a buffalo to do what it wants to do. They're so big and strong and they can be defensive. I mean, you can't get them, you can only kind of convince them to do what they want to do. And that's true of intentions. You have to really kind of like, okay, this intention, what do you want to do? And it may lead you where you don't want to go. And you have to be careful with this practice. Because you might say, what do I really want to do with my life? Well, it's not going to work unless you are going to... Such an intention won't work unless you're going to respond to the consequences of the answer.

[12:39]

Because you might not like the answer. So then if you can make it kind of discursive it won't work. But if it's a real intention you may find you want to do something different with your life than you're doing. It can be scary. But it's also a tremendous adventure of a way to explore your own deeper feelings by working with intentions. Someone else? Thank you. Old Facebook. When she said this, not to confuse it with so called positive thinking.

[14:00]

Oh yeah, the power of positive thinking, Dale Carnegie. None of you know who Dale Carnegie is, do you? He wrote a book back in the 50s. I think it was Dale Carnegie, The Power of Positive Thinking, and everyone read it and thought positively, and it's pretty schmaltzy. Yeah, because you can't think positively about a buffalo. The buffalo just does what it wants. But, you know, to some extent. I mean, I think the word welcome works quite well. Or arrive. So, for instance, say that you... You'd rather have an initial mind that accepts. Let's say that your habit is to say no to everything.

[15:31]

A friend of mine, when he was mad at his wife, said she's head of the Women's Resistance League. Whatever she suggests, she always says no first but men are like that too but I saw something the other day a couple had been married 80 years 80 years they were both about 100 and they had their 80th wedding anniversary And the newspaper reporter in the meeting said, no. What is the secret of being married so long? And she said, never go to bed mad. Good advice.

[16:39]

And then she asked the man. Never go to bed mad. Then she asked the man, what's the secret of your long marriage? And he said, yes, dear. Yes, dear. No. Okay. Where were we? Positive thinking. Yeah, positive thinking. So I think if you try on, if you see your habit is usually to, oh God, this is too much, is to get a habit of saying welcome to each perception. So if somebody asks you to go to the movies, you always say yes. And then you say, but I can't.

[17:45]

But you start out with, okay, maybe so. That's somewhere between wisdom and positive thinking. But the idea of welcome is quite powerful. Okay. Anything else? No, I think that's enough for now. Is this good enough for you?

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