No matter what anyone said, no matter what I read, still, I always thought meditation was about trying hard to learn how to not think. To give the mind and body a rest.
It's only recently, after practicing
mindfulness for several years, that I've come to realize that meditation is a
venue for featuring 'what is', in a way that works.
And like everything else in life, with awareness, meditation provides that space ,for whatever is happening, to come up. To be honored. Feelings , experiences , thoughts. And what I like to call 'leftovers '.
And then, because of the nature of things, each thought or feeling passes by. Settles. Becomes a little bit more digested.
It's about all that undigested stuff, that feels like and acts like crap, being provided with an opportunity to settle. Able to do what it wanted to do all along. With awareness, we get digested. Exactly like food and other nourishment.
We assimilate the nourishment, and we eliminate the waste. With thoughts, feelings, and experiences, our needs are the same.
If left undisturbed, and able to lige with awareness, we digest things beautifully. We nourish ourselves. We take out the garbage.
How did I miss that all these years?
Meditation is not refusing our castigating thoughts and feelings.
Meditation is simply an open invitation. For whatever is happening to come up. To have some airtime. To be sat with, in awareness.
And then pass on by.
And like everything else in life, with awareness, meditation provides that space ,for whatever is happening, to come up. To be honored. Feelings , experiences , thoughts. And what I like to call 'leftovers '.
And then, because of the nature of things, each thought or feeling passes by. Settles. Becomes a little bit more digested.
It's about all that undigested stuff, that feels like and acts like crap, being provided with an opportunity to settle. Able to do what it wanted to do all along. With awareness, we get digested. Exactly like food and other nourishment.
We assimilate the nourishment, and we eliminate the waste. With thoughts, feelings, and experiences, our needs are the same.
If left undisturbed, and able to lige with awareness, we digest things beautifully. We nourish ourselves. We take out the garbage.
How did I miss that all these years?
Meditation is not refusing our castigating thoughts and feelings.
Meditation is simply an open invitation. For whatever is happening to come up. To have some airtime. To be sat with, in awareness.
And then pass on by.
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