Oct 16 in Insight
Be with it all
One of the biggest misconceptions about meditation, is that we have to try to attain this state of no-mind/no-thought.
But it’s actually less about silencing the mind and more about connecting with awareness.
All that is, is a slight but necessary shift in focus. You’re not trying to take anything away from your experience, even labelling the thoughts a “distraction” kind of defeats the purpose. You’re simply connecting with awareness.
The thoughts just are, and any “unwanted” power they have over you will naturally fade by itself when you start accepting and release resistance to the fact you’re even thinking in the first place.
Let them rise and fall freely, give them space, don’t try and silence them, don’t try and control the mind.
Be WITH the thoughts, surrender, accept. It’s like, imagine laying in the ocean and just letting it go wash over you… there’s nothing to do, nothing to change, just be, be with it all.
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Be with it all