22 July 1995

                                                revised 24 Jul 95


            RI-242Ri  'Being There - Freedom to Act'


from Ron's Inspector

Message # RI-242Ri for Internet


[Revised to change 'since twenty years'
  into 'for twenty years',
 and to correct a typographical error.]




The idea of "being there"
  which is taught in
  Training Routine Zero
   in Scientology,
 is
 to be there comfortably
  with the environment
   and
  with the people around you.

That means also,
 to be there
  without HAVING to respond,
  without HAVING to react or
  without HAVING to do certain things or
  without HAVING to think certain thoughts.

 That means also,
 to be there
  without HAVING to 'not respond'
  without HAVING to 'not react' or
  without HAVING to 'not do certain things' or
  without HAVING to 'not think certain thoughts'.


Only when someone is able to do that
 - meaning, he is free
 to be
   there where he is and
   with whom and how he is -
 he can THEN decide
  how he WANTS to act,
  how he wants to NOT act,
  what he WANTS to think and
  what he wants to NOT think.

We have an example
 in the movie "Back to the Future".
 Each time Marty, (the main character in the movie),
 is told he is "chicken" (is told he is a coward)
 he
  HAS to react,
 and as a result,
  he does very irrational and damaging things
  to himself and his family.



There are some earlier therapies or practises
  which teach one
 to HAVE TO NOT react,
 to HAVE TO NOT move,
 to HAVE TO NOT think.

But this is,
  if you think it through to the end,
 as insane as
  HAVING to act,
  HAVING to think certain thoughts, etc.

 And so, as you might understand,
  the earlier practises
  are very very destructive,
  because
    they pretend
    to return some selfdeterminism,
   but in fact
    they install
    the desire to be apathetic,
    the desire to be suppressed,
    the desire to be 'dead',
  IN THE NAME OF THERAPY!


Freedom is achieved
 by being able
 to 'be there comfortably'
  with the environment and people around you,
  without any compulsion to act and
   without any compulsion to not act,
  without any compulsion to think certain thoughts and
   without any compulsion to not think certain thoughts.

That is the idea of Scientology's Training Routine Zero.


I did this Training Routine Zero.
 It took me two hours to achieve this result,
  (for which I paid some 60 Dutch Guilders
  to a Scientology Mission).
 It gave me back a state of
  what the Buddhists, I believe, call 'Bodhi'.




Koos Nolst Trenite - Ron's Inspector

P.S. It may not surprise you,
      that L. Ron Hubbard,
       who developed Scientology,
      is Gautama Buddha
       reborn in the twentieth Century.


Copyright 1995 by Koos Nolst Trenite




Addition: My Win on Scientology's TR 0 written down 7 Feb 1995




               "My Win on Scientology's TR 0"


I was raised in a family and school system
 that demanded of me to think that I am a body,
 and that demanded of me to be treated like a body.

They were really pushing this quite far.

Whenever someone felt very upset - about being suppressed
  by some undetected or unnamed Suppressive or suppression -
 they were trying to make him and the people around him
 think that this was something wrong with his OWN BODY!


This was normal:
  ''Whenever you feel suppressed, it is a body condition.
    - Go and have a rest - take an aspirin.''



I believe this is still normal in many, if not most,
 families and schools,
 and the term raw meat indeed describes this very unnatural,
 very enforced, very insane condition.


It IS very enforced
 because as soon as you take such a child on a holiday
 with people who DON't believe that the child is a body,
 and where the child is NOT suppressed,
 the child suddenly stops being upset.



There also was a series of 'Time-Life'-books on health,
 on psychology, on ''you'',
 books which all taught you
 with beautiful laboratory- and other photos
 that you are a body, that you are a brain,
 and that you are total effect of the body,
 and total effect of what is done to your brain.


These 'Time-Life'-books also showed a painting of
 a dark ocean and a lightning-storm with the
 text explaining that that is how you were made - from water,
 gas, and an electrical spark.



So, this was my 'education'
 and environment when I started on TR 0.


The purpose of the exercise of TR 0 is to be there comfortably
 while confronting who is sitting in front of you.


The result of doing this TR 0 - for less than two hours -
 was that I was NOT anymore the effect of my body.

Shortly afterwards I was drafted into the army,
 and at shooting exercises I had a rifle next to my ear
 and I was shooting on a range and I did not need earplugs
 and I could keep my eyes open while I pulled the trigger
 and while the explosion of the cartridge in the rifle occurred,
 (propelling the bullet out of the barrel to its target).

I had stopped 'being a body'.


Things had totally changed for me,
 just by doing two hours of TR 0.

I had not studied any Scientology,
 I had not studied any other similar data.

At the time,
 I was just studying physics and mathematics - nothing about
 the spiritual side of life at all, not even music, nor art.


After these two hours of TR 0,
 my sleeping-habits (which are dictated by
 agreements with the body) changed.

When I woke up each morning
 I would immediately be totally awake - and now
 it would not matter whether
 I had slept two hours or eight hours.



I had, in those two hours of TR 0,
 broken with the agreement to be a body,
 and I had become truly alive again,
 in a time span of two hours,
 and this lasted, lasted for twenty years now.


Koos Nolst Trenite
Copyright 1995 by Koos Nolst Trenite"




 references:
  RI-112i  'LRH - Gautama Buddha' of 17 Mar 1995
  RI-122i  'LRH - The Lord Buddha  (more)' of 23 Mar 1995
  RI-127i  'LRH - Buddha on the Material World' of 28 Mar 1995

  RI-137i  'LRH on "going into the Physical Universe"' 8 Apr 1995
  RI-235i   'Handling people with Understanding' of 14 July 1995

  RI-50R-Mi 'Archives of RI-xxi and RI-ACT-xx series'
             of 28 Dec 1994, Revised and Replaced 21 May 1995

  ftp: thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI
       thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI/ACT