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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, November 26, 2010
Moving Closer to You through feeling, hearing, and seeing.
Let's move closer to who we are through feeling, hearing and seeing. Start by feeling your sensations and allow those sensations to be. Do nothing but feel your bodily sensations no matter what they are.
When lost in feeling, there is no thought, there is no "I".
Allow for sensations to move in and through.
Hear the sounds around you and allow them to be. Do nothing but listen to those sounds. Don't think about the sounds, just listen.
Keep your attention on sights and allow them to move through and through. When seeing intently, there is no thought, there is no "I".
Whatever arises in your awareness, just notice it, allow it to be, don't think about it.
Throughout this practice, notice that your attention moves back and forth from thinking to awareness of feelings, sights, or sounds. Practice bringing your attention back to these things and away from thinking as often as possible. Make this your spiritual practice.
Through this practice you will come to see who you really are.
When lost in feeling, there is no thought, there is no "I".
Allow for sensations to move in and through.
Hear the sounds around you and allow them to be. Do nothing but listen to those sounds. Don't think about the sounds, just listen.
Keep your attention on sights and allow them to move through and through. When seeing intently, there is no thought, there is no "I".
Whatever arises in your awareness, just notice it, allow it to be, don't think about it.
Throughout this practice, notice that your attention moves back and forth from thinking to awareness of feelings, sights, or sounds. Practice bringing your attention back to these things and away from thinking as often as possible. Make this your spiritual practice.
Through this practice you will come to see who you really are.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Become one with your experience
It seems that most spiritual writers will eventully talk about one important practice as a way of directing you towards the oneness of things. This practice is easy and helps spiritual aspirants to get in touch with oneness.
The practice involves firstly, being in touch with ones perceptual processes. Hearing is one of our perceptual processes that helps with this experiencing. To do this, start by just listening to sounds. Close your eyes and pay close attention to the sounds around you.
Now, drop the thought, feeling or sense that you are doing the listening. Let that sense of yourself as the one who is doing the listening fade into the background. Notice now that all there is is just sounds. When that sense of you is let go of, all that remains is the experience of sound. All that there really is is the experience of anything, yet the illusion comes in when we think we are the ones who are doing the listening. As if, I am listening. The wording of this statement gives extra reinforcement to the idea that there is a listener here doing something called listening. When, in fact, there is only listening taking place.
When you merge with any sound, sight, touch, taste, smell, or thought, and you drop the sense of I that feels it is doing the perceiving, all you're left with is the experience of that perception.
Most spiritual writers want you to understand this. They want you to understand that there is no "I" that is doing the perceiving, and that only the experiencing exists.
Where does this sense of "I" stem from? It appears as a result of the fact that one experience is happening after the other. The constant flow of one experience after the other supports the illusion that there must be someone here that is doing the perceiving. Also, the language we use to describe our experiences provide the conditioning and strengthening of this illusion.
Why all this talk about the importance of understanding that there is no "I" or "me" there that does all the perceiving? Because, it is exactly this illusion of these self statements and beliefs that is the cause of all our suffering.
When you can see through the illusion of the "I" you will end the suffering that is associated with the belief that there is someone here in the head that is doing all this experiencing.
The practice involves firstly, being in touch with ones perceptual processes. Hearing is one of our perceptual processes that helps with this experiencing. To do this, start by just listening to sounds. Close your eyes and pay close attention to the sounds around you.
Now, drop the thought, feeling or sense that you are doing the listening. Let that sense of yourself as the one who is doing the listening fade into the background. Notice now that all there is is just sounds. When that sense of you is let go of, all that remains is the experience of sound. All that there really is is the experience of anything, yet the illusion comes in when we think we are the ones who are doing the listening. As if, I am listening. The wording of this statement gives extra reinforcement to the idea that there is a listener here doing something called listening. When, in fact, there is only listening taking place.
When you merge with any sound, sight, touch, taste, smell, or thought, and you drop the sense of I that feels it is doing the perceiving, all you're left with is the experience of that perception.
Most spiritual writers want you to understand this. They want you to understand that there is no "I" that is doing the perceiving, and that only the experiencing exists.
Where does this sense of "I" stem from? It appears as a result of the fact that one experience is happening after the other. The constant flow of one experience after the other supports the illusion that there must be someone here that is doing the perceiving. Also, the language we use to describe our experiences provide the conditioning and strengthening of this illusion.
Why all this talk about the importance of understanding that there is no "I" or "me" there that does all the perceiving? Because, it is exactly this illusion of these self statements and beliefs that is the cause of all our suffering.
When you can see through the illusion of the "I" you will end the suffering that is associated with the belief that there is someone here in the head that is doing all this experiencing.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Acceptance is Accessible
Anyone who is practicing spiritual principles has heard about the idea of acceptance. In general, most people have heard of acceptance, realise how important it is to be able to accept things in life, but very few may actually attempt to practice acceptance, and even fewer go so far as making accepting behavior their chosen ideal to live by.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Resistance is you
When we sit very still we can observe things within us without having to do anything. In these still moments, we can take notice of arising phenomena like sounds, images, emotions, thoughts and all sorts of body sensations.
In stillness we can see these phenomena arise and pass away into what we could consider a conscious space that is our witnessing awareness. One moment a sound appears and then it's gone, a body sensation is felt and then it subsides. What have you done but notice this process. That is all you really are-the conscious awareness behind all phenomena that comes and goes.
Suddenly, thoughts appear and your attention is taken over and into them. No more are the sensations, sights, sounds. As if the voice of unknown volition says, I don't like the sensation, the sound, the thought. There appears resistance to what has arisen in this moment. The sound of resistanct is that voice in your head that wants things to be different and narrates the concern. You've appeared!
The you that you think you are - that voice in the head - when it appears, there you are.
The you that you think you are is nothing more than resistance to this moment and the splendor that this moment offers. Attention is taken out of this moment, you become separated from the miracle of this moment.
The real you is not that voice. The Self is not found in the voice of resistance, but in the space in which the voice arises.
In stillness we can see these phenomena arise and pass away into what we could consider a conscious space that is our witnessing awareness. One moment a sound appears and then it's gone, a body sensation is felt and then it subsides. What have you done but notice this process. That is all you really are-the conscious awareness behind all phenomena that comes and goes.
Suddenly, thoughts appear and your attention is taken over and into them. No more are the sensations, sights, sounds. As if the voice of unknown volition says, I don't like the sensation, the sound, the thought. There appears resistance to what has arisen in this moment. The sound of resistanct is that voice in your head that wants things to be different and narrates the concern. You've appeared!
The you that you think you are - that voice in the head - when it appears, there you are.
The you that you think you are is nothing more than resistance to this moment and the splendor that this moment offers. Attention is taken out of this moment, you become separated from the miracle of this moment.
The real you is not that voice. The Self is not found in the voice of resistance, but in the space in which the voice arises.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Stay fixed in the self
Your meditation should be to stay fixed in the self. Keep your attention firmly fixed on the sense of self.
Become familiar with your sense of self. Sense of self? The one thing you notice when you close your eyes and ask yourself, "how do I know I am here at this moment?" The question is answered by the sensation of self you feel after you ask the question. You automatically sense that you are here. There is an inner knowing that you exist in this moment.
Now, continue to stay aware of this sense of self. Do not waver from your awareness of this sense of self. When you lose the awareness and find yourself thinking, that's okay, it's expected to happen, it should happen, just bring your attention (awareness) back to awaeness of self.
Make the awareness of the sense of self your meditation practice. Stay partially aware of the sense of self all day long, without breaking this consciousness of self for even one moment. Try to stay aware constantly.
Eventually, the sense of self, will give way to the Self.
Become familiar with your sense of self. Sense of self? The one thing you notice when you close your eyes and ask yourself, "how do I know I am here at this moment?" The question is answered by the sensation of self you feel after you ask the question. You automatically sense that you are here. There is an inner knowing that you exist in this moment.
Now, continue to stay aware of this sense of self. Do not waver from your awareness of this sense of self. When you lose the awareness and find yourself thinking, that's okay, it's expected to happen, it should happen, just bring your attention (awareness) back to awaeness of self.
Make the awareness of the sense of self your meditation practice. Stay partially aware of the sense of self all day long, without breaking this consciousness of self for even one moment. Try to stay aware constantly.
Eventually, the sense of self, will give way to the Self.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Finding Self
How to find the Self:
Take your attention into the body and become very still. Notice the energy that runs through the body and keep your attention on that energy. Whatever you sense as energy is not the Self. However, that which you do sense is a part of the Self that has become wrongly identified as being you and your body. The ego part of the mind has taken a minuscule portion of the Self and has labelled it as you or, I. By keeping your attention on this aspect of the Self, it will eventually be dissolved into the Self. The you will disappear and you will become Self-realised.
Before realisation, there will be an experience of increasingly intensifying peace. Before realisation, there will be moments of sensing the oneness of all.
Continue to practice by keeping attention on that inner sense of me.
Desire peace above all else, as peace is who you are.
Take your attention into the body and become very still. Notice the energy that runs through the body and keep your attention on that energy. Whatever you sense as energy is not the Self. However, that which you do sense is a part of the Self that has become wrongly identified as being you and your body. The ego part of the mind has taken a minuscule portion of the Self and has labelled it as you or, I. By keeping your attention on this aspect of the Self, it will eventually be dissolved into the Self. The you will disappear and you will become Self-realised.
Before realisation, there will be an experience of increasingly intensifying peace. Before realisation, there will be moments of sensing the oneness of all.
Continue to practice by keeping attention on that inner sense of me.
Desire peace above all else, as peace is who you are.
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