Blog 258 – Using Meditation to Leave The Pit, Part 4 – 21
May 2025
I finished Blog 257
with these words.
The music
is only an efficient tool to help you eliminate clutter from your brain. You need to eliminate the clutter because
the clutter is the reason why you are still in the Pit. Toss the clutter into the rubbish bin and
the way out of the Pit becomes so much clearer. If you
simply get lost in listening to beautiful music, this gives you the same
effect as asking the doctor for some pills.
It dulls the pain, but the muted pain stays with you forever. If you simply listen to beautiful music without getting rid of the
mental clutter, you are just rearranging the furniture in your room in the Pit
to make the room more user friendly – but the room remains located in the centre of the Pit. Don’t use
the music to rearrange the furniture in the Pit. Use the
music for its intended purpose – getting rid of the mad mess of thoughts in
your head so you can walk away from the Pit and never go back. |
I am serious when I
say that you must avoid the attractive trap of avoiding your genuine escape
from the Pit by thinking you can escape just by listening to wonderful music.
The wonderful music
will certainly make you feel better while you are listening to it, and for a
short while after it has finished, but music is not your escape vehicle.
The only escape
vehicle that will ever exist is a hero called YOU.
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I keep repeating my
purpose.
My purpose is to give hope to those who have lost hope.
Without hope, we remain lost in the Shadow Lands. |
You are the hero and
you hold within yourself, the only key in the whole universe that will ever
unlock your exit from the Pit.
That is not a
fantasy but the literal truth.
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Photo of me next to the 4 wheel drive that got me into the camp at the base of Mount Ragged on 10 April 2011.
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I took this photo on
8 April 2011 when I camped at Cape Arid National Park on the eastern coast of Western
Australia. There is no phone reception
and no services of any kind; bring your own water, food and everything else. If you do not bring everything you will need,
there is a good chance you will die.
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This is the track
that eventually brought me to the Mount Ragged campsite on 10 April 2011.
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Contrast the wild ruggedness of the dirt track I drove along, with the fragility of this glorious butterfly!
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Dawn on 11 April 2011 at the Mount Ragged campsite. Dawn actually looked so much better than shown in my photo.
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I camped in a bush
camp at the bottom of Mount Ragged on 11 April 2011. The nearest living human being was no closer
than 200 kilometres away. If you get
into trouble in this area, it is not possible to phone a friend. If you break a leg climbing Mount Ragged, you
will have to crawl down the mountain; even if you do crawl down the mountain, you will probably die.
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In case you did not
completely understand what I have been saying, I will repeat myself. The purpose of listening to the beautiful
music is to enable you to develop the ability to focus your thoughts. If you focus your thoughts on the music, this
will automatically drive the usual mental clutter out of your brain. The usual mental clutter is what holds us in
the Pit.
When you are able to
focus on music which is beautiful but repetitious, you are on the way to being
able to focus your thoughts by consciously excluding things that bring
your spirit down. This is why I have
described musica as a tool and not as the end result. You train yourself to control the thoughts
going through you head in a similar way to how you train yourself to be a good cricket or basketball or football player – practice, practice and yet more
practice is needed.
You are no more
likely to become a master of your thoughts in a short time than any
professional sportsperson is likely to master a sport in a short time. To
conquer the flow of rubbish constantly flowing through your brain, you must
practise until you acquire the necessary skill.
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Here are some more
chant artists that I have found helpful.
Some chant artists focus on the repletion of the chants rather than on making
the chants sound exceptionally beautiful.
This is because these artists want to help you master the skills of
meditation in preference to making gorgeous sounding music. You should not assume that the music is boring. The intent is to enable you to concentrate on the chant and drive the rubbish out of your head.
·
Kamini Natarajan (https://www.kaminimusic.com):
o
Chants for Meditation.
o Chants for Meditation 2.
o
Shiva Meditation.
·
Ajeet Kaur (https://www.ajeetmusic.com)
o Haseya.
o At the Temple Door.
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Dechen Shak Dagsay (https://www.dechen-shak.com):
o
Day Tomorrow
o
Jewel, Joyful Heart Through Precious Tibetan
Mantras
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Tomorrow, I will tell you more about how to meditate.