The profound alternative of meditation is to utterly let go of any adherence to your present interpretive framework.
The entire expertise we have now, 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 reveals up as one thing.
It reveals 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 best way they seem to us.
We imagine we’re seeing actuality as it’s and never by way of elaborate lenses of interpretation.
Move By
Letting go, actually letting go, not solely of our acutely aware concepts about the whole lot, which is already exhausting sufficient, however even of our unconscious interpretations of the whole lot, is the profound alternative of meditation.
And there’s no means you are able to do this by way of an act of will. It’s one thing you possibly can enable 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 means you possibly can let go is by not partaking with something that is occurring in your thoughts which implies something that you just really feel and any factor you concentrate on what you are feeling.
You simply enable all of it to easily move by with out getting concerned in any respect.
Meaning each bodily sensation, all the 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 important to let all of them simply stand up and move away.
If you are able to do this you’ll inevitably fall by way of and past all the 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 move away with out touching it, with out getting concerned in anyway in any respect.
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 when you acknowledge that you just’ve gotten concerned with one thing you don’t even have to look to see what it’s you’re concerned with.
As quickly as you get the very first recognition that you just’re concerned with one thing, you simply let go and you progress on. You enable it to move 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.
When you begin to really feel that, let it move away.
Don’t get entangled with making an attempt to see what’s taking place.
The temptation to wish to see the way you’re doing is ever current.
Let the temptation move away with out touching it.
As quickly as you notice you’re touching one thing, let it go.
