The Little Purple Notebook On How To Escape From This Universe
Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
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The "Don't Have To Do" List And The 'Single Process'
This is one is just too easy. So easy, that it is perhaps one of the most
underestimated processes around:
It could be called the Anti-Prep-Trap-Proc #1:
"Make a list of things you DON'T have to do!"
In the short run, if this process is being thoroughly done and enough time
is taken to endulge in the feelings of NOT having to do such and such, this
process can pull out a person out of a otherwise hopeless stuck
present-time condition.
In the long run, this process could be mistaken as a 'single-process'
nirvana-maker, if such a thing would exist.
The reason seems clear enough: if there wouldn't be any 'unfinished
business' in one's life anymore, there wouldn't be attachments or
compulsions left either.
First of all, it is debatable whether this process pulls a person far
enough out of the web of fixed ideas in order to be able to handle 'things
that HAVE to be done'. The latter ideas are usually tied up in constructs
of their own ('GPMs') and need special handlings.
More importantly, however, the myth of a 'single-process' to reach
liberation is just that: a myth.
Typically, such a myth is propagated by people who are stuck in Prep-Trap
1. They extrapolate their wins on their current process into the future and
conclude that once they have finished it everything 'must' be OK.
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings!
Speculations such as Dennis Stephens' nirvana-claims in TROM, or expecting
to reach enlightenment by sitting long enough in front of a wall, are
quickly being echoed by anyone who had a success in a particular process.
Now, it may be that someone 'reaches xyz' while sitting in front of a wall.
However, whatever he did was just what he did close to the time when it
happened.
This way, and far too often, someone starts writing a book on 'How to be a
successfull such-or-such'. The guy looks back in time at what he had done
before winning the lottery. This approach is basically correct, of course.
However, more often than not, the success author then takes an arbitrary
("I was playing tennis everyday") and assigns 'cause' to it.
The logical conclusion becomes "Play tennis everyday, and you, too, will
win in the lottery!". An amazing number of utterly worthless 'self-help'
books are churned out this way every year. Enough to make
rain-forest-saviors weeping in their sleep, anyway.
In any case, a Being expands gradually before it can become (again)
limitless.
Even the best process can advance freedom only to point where other
conditions are holding back further development.
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The question of what processes could constitute a basic set of processes
for this purpose is an interesting but also perhaps a purely academic
question.
A process for checking off obsolete goals, duties, plans, and games would
positively belong to such a set.
Now, I just realized that I really don't have to do all this writing and
will take a nap instead!
Max over and out.
(don't worry. Max will be back!).
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Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
