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hi cameron

one of the hallmarks of the water method is that you put a lot of emphasis into direct feeling.

the hard part of that is you don't know what your feeling until after you feel it, and even then, you have to think about it to describe what you just did.

and it's clear to me that thinking is a part of the problem, most people are "feeling" their thoughts so much they don't have much capacity to directly feel left over.

the brain is something that has a strong tendency to filter, that's a lot of what the brain does, it ignores most stimulus coming in so you can focus on one thing. when that brain of yours is making up noises in your head (thinking), it limits the ability to notice other things.

I would put forth the idea (yes, this is thinking about) that if you really want to get good at this stuff, a core skill is getting to be able to FEEL really good, and not be too hung up on describing or whatever, just keep feeling it.

at that point, when you get the "a ha!"moment, that's a great time to remember to "just relax, don't get excited" that a ha feeling is your brain taking over and having a noise party for a bit (thinking), and it is liable to pop you out of that experience, back into thinking mode.

staying relaxed, not too goal oriented, and open & paitient seems to be the doorway to really getting this stuff.

Tao talks about little mind and big mind. to my way of experience, little mind is the brain, big mind is awareness. if we expand big mind out past little mind, begin to explore the world through direct experience, explain everything less, and just be comfortable, really good things can happen.

practically speaking, It seems that if you first spend years playing with it until you really get it, then, and only then, will you have any real chance of saying something coherent and accurate about it. until then, it''s like the story of the 5 blind men and the elephant. each blind man could describe what they were experiencing, but they never got the big picture, cause they got hung up on describing the part they felt, not knowing there were many other experiences needed to fully have felt the elephant. and the discussion they had did not assist the blind men in improving their understanding, rather the opposite.

hope this helps, and id like to hear what others think about it? even better, what have you felt?

:-)