The profound alternative that meditation provides you is the prospect to utterly free you from any adherence it’s a must to your present interpretive framework. Which means letting go of the entire ways in which you make sense of your expertise to be able to really feel the ecstasy of non-conceptual pure consciousness.
If this doesn’t essentially sound good to you, learn on.
Not Actually Experiencing Actuality
You see, all of the experiences we’ve, which suggests each sensation that runs by us, passes by an elaborate and largely unconscious interpretive mechanism.
The result’s that we don’t expertise actuality the way in which it’s. We see actuality the way in which that we’ve been taught to see it.
Our previous relationships and experiences, our traumas and disappointments, in addition to our successes and triumphs, have conditioned us to expertise actuality in sure methods and never others.
See Actuality As It Is
The nice miracle of meditation is that it could enable us to see actuality as it’s. That is once we can lastly reply to actuality the way in which it’s moderately than to our concepts and fears about it.
So usually we’re not conscious of the method of interpretation that’s producing our expertise of actuality. It’s occurring unconsciously.
We don’t see the interpretive processing occurring so we assume that we’re seeing issues the way in which are.
Too usually we discover ourselves responding rationally to the way in which issues look like and never getting the outcomes we’d logically count on.
We by no means appear to have the ability to accomplish this, or cease doing that. Why will we really feel so caught? It will probably make us really feel a bit loopy.
A robust meditation apply can deliver us in contact with the way in which issues actually are and that adjustments every part. A lot extra turns into potential for us as soon as we’re in direct contact with actuality.
Letting Go
Letting go, really letting go, not solely of our aware concepts about every part, which is already onerous sufficient, however even of our unconscious assumptions about every part, is the profound alternative of meditation.
And there’s no means you’ll be able to let go like this by an act of will. You possibly can’t make it occur. It’s a must to enable it to occur.
It’s not one thing you are able to do consciously as a result of it’s not occurring consciously.
The one means you’ll be able to let go is by not participating with something that is happening in your thoughts which suggests disengaging from something you’re feeling and something you’re excited about.
Meditation is the apply of sitting and easily permitting something that arises in your thoughts to go away with out getting concerned with it in any respect.
Which means each bodily sensation, your entire emotions, your ideas, your ideas about ideas, even the ideas that really feel such as you speaking to your self, you simply need to let all of them go away. If you are able to do this, you’ll inevitably fall by and past the entire interpreted experiences of the thoughts. You permit the world.
Disengage from Considering
So in meditation I invite you to be as bodily nonetheless as you presumably can, and let each single factor that arises in consciousness go away with out touching it, with out getting concerned in anyway in any respect. That’s it.
It doesn’t matter what arises in consciousness you simply let it go. You don’t discriminate between something and anything. You let all of it go by, untouched. And when you acknowledge that you simply’ve gotten concerned with one thing you don’t even must look to see what it’s you’re concerned with. As quickly as you get the very first trace that you simply’re concerned with one thing, you simply let it go and permit it to go away.
If you are able to do this with sufficient focus, you’ll begin to really feel such as you’re turning into dislodged from the world.
In the event you begin to really feel that, let that feeling go away too. Don’t get entangled with attempting to see what’s occurring. The temptation to wish to see the way you’re doing is ever current. Let the temptation go away with out touching it. As quickly as you notice you’re touching one thing, let it go.
