The profound alternative of meditation is to utterly let go of any adherence to your present interpretive framework.
All the expertise we now have, each sensation that runs by way of us passes by way of an elaborate and largely unconscious interpretive mechanism.
Our expertise doesn’t simply present up.
It exhibits up as one thing.
It exhibits up predefined, however in fact it’s probably not predefined.
It’s interpreted.
It solely feels predefined as a result of we’re not conscious of the interpretation.
We don’t see the interpretive processing so we assume that issues are the way in which they seem to us.
We consider we’re seeing actuality as it’s and never by way of elaborate lenses of interpretation.
Cross By
Letting go, actually letting go, not solely of our acutely aware concepts about all the pieces, which is already onerous sufficient, however even of our unconscious interpretations of all the pieces, is the profound alternative of meditation.
And there’s no method you are able to do this by way of an act of will. It’s one thing you may permit to occur, however it isn’t one thing you are able to do consciously as a result of it’s not taking place consciously.
The one method you may let go is by not participating with something that is occurring in your thoughts which suggests something that you simply really feel and any factor you concentrate on what you’re feeling.
You simply permit all of it to easily cross by with out getting concerned in any respect.
Meaning each bodily sensation, the entire emotions that come up, your ideas, your ideas about ideas, even the ideas that really feel such as you speaking to your self, it’s a must to let all of them simply stand up and cross away.
If you are able to do this you’ll inevitably fall by way of and past the entire interpreted experiences of the thoughts.
Be Nonetheless
So in meditation I invite you to be as bodily nonetheless as you presumably can, and let each single factor that arises in consciousness cross away with out touching it, with out getting concerned in anyway in any way.
It doesn’t matter what arises in consciousness you let it go.
You don’t discriminate between something and anything.
You simply let all of it go by, untouched.
And in case 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 recognition that you simply’re concerned with one thing, you simply let go and you progress on. You permit it to cross away.
Let Go
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.
For those who begin to really feel that, let it cross away.
Don’t become involved with making an attempt to see what’s taking place.
The temptation to need to see the way you’re doing is ever current.
Let the temptation cross away with out touching it.
As quickly as you notice you’re touching one thing, let it go.
