So, you have done part 1 and not just sat on your backside reading. Dabblers are wasting their time and mine. Don't be one.
So, looking back on the exercise, did you notice that in order for there to be a 'you' that is, a perceiver perceiving the perceived sense, you had to contract, to make your 'self' smaller? When there was just perceiving, there was a much larger 'you'.
This can range from just a minor, oh yeh, to earth shattering. Here 'you' are creating a 'you' and noticing a variation between a no 'you' and a 'you'. Now, in my book, this is a pretty big thing. What does this say about 'you'? Do you think there really is a perceiver and a perceived, or is that a type of learned response?
If you have a handle on this, try taking it to the extreme. Red Bull it all the way out! Create a 'you' the size of a pea in order to feel what the body is apparently telling it. Then, gently, just let it go. Nothing complex or weird, just let it go. No perceiver and nothing perceived, just perceiving happening. Let that state expand. How far can you let it go? Can you 'get' the amorphous and malleable nature of 'you'? Could something that important be so easily manipulated? Right where you are could there be a universe and not just a pea sized you based on totally meaningless memories.
Here is the sequence. There is a 'you', created by memories which are created from experiences which originate with sense perceptions. These memories have been locked in place using a scale of varying 'importance'.
Go to the beginning. When you where a child and skinned your knee, didn't your Mom say, 'Oh, little Johnny/Jane hurt his/her knee, how do you feel? I'll fix it'. or did she say, 'Oh, Johnny/Jane, is some pain happening to you or is discomfort just happening with no one there to perceive it? Maybe if your mom was a love child of the '60's and stoned on LSD she said that latter, but I doubt it.
I have the illusion that all members will give this a serious go. If you are here and just friggin around, I invite you to leave. My time is precious and so is yours. If you try this in earnest and don't get anything, I want to know that as well. Just read the instructions on rant #1 again and take fifteen or twenty minutes, or an hour or two. There is an important realization waiting for you, but you must reach out and grab it. Reading and doing nothing... well, let's be honest about it, you have done plenty of that, now TO WORK!
Love ya all. Jed.