You’re Not Actually Sailing If You’re Still Tied to the Dock

Guest post by The Unnameable

I look around these days and amongst my own kind I see three distinct groups: the Clueless, the Enraged and Those Poised for Battle. If you read Sun Tzu you will discover that timing is critical to any success; The Poised are now tight as a drawn bow, perpetually nocked and trembling with waiting for some definitive signal to release. Since something’s got to give lest The Poised collapse or fire prematurely, I recommend you learn to call the shots by making this giving-in conscious, deliberate, and beneficial.

If you live in the west, if you watch tv, if you attended taxpayer-funded school, if you once had faith in your government, organised religion, major media, then it’s guaranteed your mind has been chopped up, stamped on and re-formed like a chicken nugget. It would serve you to embrace that you have spent your entire life having your garbage picked up, having the fire brigade make an appearance when your house catches alight, enjoying the full rights and benefits of a contributor to a thriving republic, but now and for the foreseeable future no one is coming to rescue either you or your mind. Finding deliverance and freedom from the current mindfuckery under which we all labour is entirely up to you.

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When your life is no longer working, when following orders or chasing after approval, recognition or promotion is no longer the thrill it once was it’s time to see that you just aren’t that guy anymore. It is then you must start thinking like a sculptor and begin to chip away the parts that are no longer you.

In the west, the practice of contemplation has endured massive amounts of subtle and not-so-subtle ridicule … why? Because it’s bad for business. Ask yourself where you first heard that contemplation was a waste of time? Someone will have said it at some point … who? And for what purpose? And what did they want you to do or buy instead? Practicing contemplation will make the answers to these questions clear.

Enabling the ability to think on your own is not in the best interest of any entity who would like to control you. The last thing they want is for you to have time to shut out their influence. What would happen to the mighty engine of the global financial system if people started to think for themselves? Daring to stand apart is what keeps the people who control the world on the lookout for straying livestock, poised to stun with the prod of name-calling and ridicule, backed up by the affirmative braying of the rest of the herd.

The practice of contemplation exposes and discards every ingrained thought form imposed upon you by your mother, the military, the media, the monastery — you name it, every human or institution bent on making you think a certain way has done so for one reason: to get you to quickly and efficiently do their will and not yours. Taking a daily deliberate interval of contemplation develops your skill at pressing the pause button on the bullshit barrage of life.

Contemplation ultimately erodes detrimental programming, leaving the real you standing alone in a vast field of possibility, the sun on your face and the rest of your life laid out before you like a chocolate box of real choices.

You will begin to see that opinions you may have once accepted as your own were instead inculcated by people who demanded you do their will in favour of your own. You want to be free? Focused self-reflection is how you begin. You want to change the world? Stop worrying about the world and instead change the only thing you ever can: yourself.

Down through the centuries many teachers would have you believe it takes a lifetime to achieve mastery, but every version boils down to this: for a space of time you will aim to allow the same state of physical relaxation you achieve naturally every time you go to sleep, yet maintain total awareness throughout. That’s it. Just find somewhere comfortable, lie down, breathe regularly, relax completely and stay awake. That is contemplation.

When you first start out you’re going to be wrapped pretty tightly, so your primary objective will be learning how to relax. Set aside a block of time when you will not be disturbed. Close the curtains and dim the room. Kill the phone. Minimise any electrical fields and high-frequency buzzing noises by turning off your computer and television. Don’t skimp—get to that place where you can breathe deeply and openly, without fear and with a growing sense of wonder. If you are fidgety it’s because you’ve been trained to have a horror of being bored.

If you are expecting an important call, don’t begin contemplation — you’ll only be braced for the phone to ring. Insist upon time when you will not be interrupted and commit fully by remembering that no matter how long your rope is, you’re not actually sailing if you’re still tied to the dock.

Lie back in a comfortable position, scan your body for any signs of clenched muscles and willingly allow them to relax. Breathe deeply and regularly. At first you may creep towards the threshold of consciousness and tumble right over into sleep but with practice you can hold yourself at the edge and bask a while.

As you approach the border between waking and sleep you may feel like you are swooning or rhythmically rocking or floating or falling. Let whatever happens, happen. Learn to enjoy this threshold, it’s where you will amaze yourself.

Some achieve a state of relaxation with binaural beats, trance music, drugs, alcohol or sexual release, then stop there, satisfied with the toolkit they have amassed to reach a chilled place, but you are aiming for something more: a greater prize awaits when you develop the skill to achieve the threshold whenever you want with no outside assistance, just your will and your breath. With practice, you can stimulate the release of any brain chemicals you will ever need by the power of your focused intent.

Contemplation is achieving the same level of relaxation you enjoy naturally during sleep, without losing consciousness. Insisting upon this interval, making that space in time for yourself, by yourself, will give you the stamina you need to win any war, and when the time comes to release your arrow it will fly straight and true to the very heart of our enemy.