Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft
Feelings are extremely odd issues. So usually we take them as given. We see them not solely as “the best way it’s,’ however whilst “the best way it’s going to be for a very long time.” It’s odd, as a result of feelings are extremely ephemeral and transient; by no means the identical from second to second. They merely trick us into considering they’ll be the best way they’re proper now without end, despite the fact that we’ve seen the other day-after-day of our lives.
Generally in meditation apply there might be an over-emphasis on the concept of simply “being with issues as they’re.” We’re inspired to note “what’s” with whole acceptance, not attempting to vary it, management it, or choose it in any manner. And whereas that is generally good recommendation, there are just a few methods it’s truly off, and may trigger us to overlook actual alternatives in our apply.
A technique it’s off is to assume that it’s doable to see issues “as they are surely,” as if there may be some sort of impartial, goal notion that’s doable. However it’s not. There isn’t any such impartial notion. We’re at all times taking a stance in the direction of what we’re observing, whether or not we understand it or not. Denying or ignoring this simply precludes the potential of investigating that stance, which may very well be very powerfully awakening.
A second manner the concept of “simply being with” issues as they come up is that we have now an amazing capability to vary and domesticate our feeling states. Feelings, particularly, will not be simply “given,” however are states that we’re creating inside our expertise. Now we have a say in how we really feel. And so an enormously essential a part of meditation apply is to study to purposefully generate optimistic emotional states.
On this meditation, after contacting nondual consciousness via noticing the vacancy of thought and feeling, we generate a really optimistic state of “Buddha love” (together with many different optimistic feelings) and take the stance of radiating these emotional qualities in all instructions. This works as a result of as soon as we get in contact with the ephemerality and nebulosity of the ego, it turns into straightforward to domesticate optimistic new ego states.
We study that feelings are simply one thing that’s occurring to us, or that may be a direct response to the issues that the world is doing to us. As an alternative, feelings are a optimistic stance we will take in the direction of nondual engagement with all the pieces. Take pleasure in.
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