Comments on: The Mind Comes Forth

By: Arno

Arno — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:38:36 +0000

Hello Camilo, Thank you for your post. First, you cannot control your thoughts. Second, always come back to the idea that attention is all you can control.
Example: Let’s say you are meditating. Thoughts come up, seemingly out of nowhere. You don’t try to stop them, change them, etc. Rather, you refocus your attention on observing thoughts, or the breath, or body sensations, or a word (mantra)…whatever you decided to focus your attention on when you began the meditation.
Thoughts come up all the time, randomly. Now, you can direct attention to the types of thoughts you want to have. Example: You are stopped at a stance while climbing. You focus attention on thinking about specific things that will help you prepare for the next section of climbing (the next protection/stance, the fall consequence, your plan for climbing the next section). You are intentionally focusing attention on thinking only those thoughts that help you prepare.
Arno

By: camilo

camilo — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:49:02 +0000

hi arno
it seems that becoming aware of ones thougths is like meditating. you cannot control your thought but lettin them pass away… what your are saying is that one should “look” toughts pass away instead of trying to control them? personally i find very difiult to “control” my thoughts.

By: frank jackson

frank jackson — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:21:30 +0000

Arno
thanks for passing on your knowledge…

By: Arno

Arno — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:33:09 +0000

Your comment poorly translated: “above all an enormous greeting to arno and to all the climbers of this planet. so alone to say that to center me scaling the best than me goes to my is not to think, I saw him in a pelicula that himself holder the I finalize samurai. and above all to read and to reread guerreror of the rock. a greeting companions.”
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Hola Manolo, Gracias for your comment. Adios, Arno

By: manolo

manolo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:16:06 +0000

ante todo un enorme saludo a arno y a todos los escaladores de este planeta.tan solo decir que para centrarme escalando lo mejor que me va a mi es no pensar,lo vi en una pelicula que se titula el ultimo samurai.y sobre todo leer y releer guerreror de la roca.un saludo compañeros

By: Arno

Arno — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:58:28 +0000

Kyle, Over the years folks have asked to be added to my newsletter list and that has evolved into these lessons blasts. So I guess that’s how you are on the list.
Be well and attentive this season and into 2010.
Arno

By: Kyle Ricketts

Kyle Ricketts — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:36:16 +0000

Arno, I’m impressed that you remember me after all these years. I’m also impressed that you have stuck to this venture for all this time. I haven’t climbed much the past few years. I do get out on the ice a number of times during the winter. I’ve become a chicken shit on the rock, and bold on the ice. I don’t get that one. I have planned on getting much more involved this upcoming season. These emails are timely. Although I think it is a mistake I am getting them. Don’t you have to be part of the course? Kyle

By: Arno

Arno — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:01:53 +0000

Hello Roxana, Yes, you understand correctly. Continue to work with this process. Arno

By: Arno

Arno — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:01:10 +0000

Hi Robby, yes it engages the mind some but use it as a tool to develop synchronizing attention with movement. After practice you can drop the counting. Arno

By: Roxana

Roxana — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:20:34 +0000

When I think I’m disconnected from my body. Connection with my body is very important while climbing. It’s the very first time for me when I made the difference between necessary thinking and garbage thinking – that mental noise who appear only to create and maintain my false identity. This is because I keep considering rational mind as something precious but is just a tool, awareness is beyond. It is something I need to learn – reconnect awareness with my body and trust them each time I don’t need to think. Did I understand well? Thank you