My 'Relationship'
to 'Experience'
has to change.
Awareness Practice
creates lot's of vast
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
S p a c i o u s n e s s !
Questions
to Ponder - and then ask oneself...
Yes, My 'Relationship' To
'Experience' Has To Change.
This Is The Whole, Central,
#1 Pivot Of 'The Work' Week
I Have
To Do With And On Myself.
"Now I am Cultivating
and having a 'S p a c i o u s n e s s'
a r o u n d 'What' I am
experiencing."
Never
No More asking:
'Why' am I experiencing this' ???
Wrong Question.
That's
getting so lame.
So caught
in content.
Not
WHY –
but HOW much do I know
about where I'm
blind?
How
much 'attention' do I put on that,
not on the Story
of Why.
Always
too much focusing on
Could
Be – rather than What's So . . .
Can
you Notice a 'pattern',
a tone, a texture, a shape –
without
getting lostin the pattern's 'content' ?
Expectation, then getting sunk, sinking into a chain
of reactions to the story-content ?
Because when blind reactions are
arising –
We are 'out
of attention' – caught up in content
and into the fictions of
emotionality.
The
Mindfulness Practice is to cultivate my capacity 'To Notice'
when I
am out of attention and to then come back to attention
in the
present moment - not necessarily to 'stay' in attention.
This is the big crucial difference here
...
in
this type of Mindfulness Meditation.
Cultivating
a 'generous mind' –
It's 'good enough' to be present in the moment
when I am present in the moment.
BUT
Don't, don't, don't try to notice it all –
A series of 'noticings' is good enough, even better –
That's
what keeps stimulating the awareness-learning curve of HOW to
notice.
Not too much noticing or 'noticing' will become
'thinking'.
It
could be come obsessive vigilance.
Too
much red alert all the time.
That'll
spin you back into self-judgment.
The
gradual success in the ability to come back to attention
is more important for
the meditator than to staying in attention -
for
that is a set up for being lost in content, judgment and fear again.
Meditation practice that is 'good enough'
Meditation practice that is 'good enough'
Meditation practice that is 'good enough' is the
key here!
My 'relationship' to my 'experience' has to change.
Cultivating and having a
s p a c i o u s n e s s
around 'what' I am experiencing.
There is NO situation that is 'inherently' Difficult.
The only 'mindstream' I can mind is my own
'mindsteasm".
"Then you start to love the Questions themselves".
That's where the healing of heart begins.
Awareness
Practice creates Lot's of Spaciousness !
Developing a very,
very Open Non-Expecting-Mind.
Staying Present
with an Open Heart,
and so
staying present with Fear,
Not within
Fear...
The real Relationship in life is cultivating
a real, courageous 'relationship' with Fear.
Resting with ease
with Dont-Know-Mind...
" Anything can happen at Anytime "
No longer arguing with ‘What Is’.
and " Everything Changes,
Nothing Remains the Same "
The
Fear:
It's called
"The-Self-is-about-to-disappear-Fear"
or
"Impermanence is absolutely
True"...
"Impermanence is absolutely
Terrifying".
Buddha's teaching is totaled around the unarguable,
the uncompromising Teachings of Impermanence.
Cultivating an Insight-based
Relationship with Impermanence
develops a Trust in oneself and antidotes Fear.
"Enlightened Happiness
& Genuine Satisfaction
has to be Unconditional:
Inner Happiness
not based, not reliant
on conditions,
circumstances
or outcomes"
~ Billy Bo Sat .
A tall order we're all working
our 'practice' towards...