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December 2008 
Ease your mind into things
Posted on Jan 2nd, 2008
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cosmicbdog
cosmicbdog
Rest is wonderful. Resting enough makes room for new things to come through. Without resting and letting go, you can't collapse and contract full. It seems the sun needs to go down before it will come up again. See what happens if you ease your mind into things today. Begin with ease... see if ease can be the fertilizer you use to lay a garden bed for whatever dynamic you choose.
If you don't know what to do... don't do anything. Listening... even moreso observing without trail following will get you back on course. Actually, I found with 'being on the path' is more and more obvious the less you try and follow one. If you're unsure, just try letting go for a moment... consciously deciding to put an end to all the scripts that are running and observe the very basics of your being all that stuff you strive to have an awareness for seems to come flooding in. But don't hold onto it. What for if it comes in with such abundance when you don't try to have it?
I find the more I do this meditation, the greater things come to distract or persuade me... greater ideas... epiphanies.. strange stories to entertain my mind for a moment... but after some concentration and discipline I begin to have a clear of thoughts and concepts and stories... it becomes lucid like I'm going in and out of sitting in a spot to being in a field of open possibilities. Logic or abstract, it could go either way. Like when a tennis ball hits the top of the net and flies upward... it could go either.
At this point, the brain the body.. it all seems to be at ease within the experience and things fall into place... mental algorithms align in good sequences... approaches to problems comes about in a more wholistic manner... things just seem to fit into place...
Begin with ease. It is my opinion that potentially nothing is more constructive in closing the gaps of time in achieving things than sitting still observing yourself paying careful attention not to wonder. That as crazy as this sounds... this is like the time machine.
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I'm going to let this post influence me. I find the same is true when I meditate… greater and greater things, ideas, worries do come forward but they stop as you ease into it. You don't resist.
A writing mentor once told me that no thought I think is valid unless I speak it to someone, write it down or act upon it… that if I thought about it in my head too much in daydreams it would never come out in my writing, and it would never lead me to do anything. Well… that's kind of what she said. Anyhow, when a great thought comes to me but I have no way of writing it down, I just leave it. Through years of patience with that, I've found that I don't have to worry… the idea, the thought is still there. It's just not necessary to leap up from my meditation or what I'm doing in order to go off and record it.
As for time machines… doesn't sound crazy, our brain is a time machine.
Cheers bdog thanks for posting!
I'm going to let this post influence me. I find the same is true when I meditate… greater and greater things, ideas, worries do come forward but they stop as you ease into it. You don't resist.
A writing mentor once told me that no thought I think is valid unless I speak it to someone, write it down or act upon it… that if I thought about it in my head too much in daydreams it would never come out in my writing, and it would never lead me to do anything. Well… that's kind of what she said. Anyhow, when a great thought comes to me but I have no way of writing it down, I just leave it. Through years of patience with that, I've found that I don't have to worry… the idea, the thought is still there. It's just not necessary to leap up from my meditation or what I'm doing in order to go off and record it.
As for time machines… doesn't sound crazy, our brain is a time machine.
Cheers bdog thanks for posting!
Beautiful blog! This reminds me of something in a book I'm reading called Radical Acceptance. When the field of aeronautics first began and pilots attempted to take their planes higher and higher, they found that the laws of physics no longer worked the same and would lose control of their aircraft, crashing to their deaths.
One pilot lost consciousness and let go of the controls. He regained consciousness once the plane returned to its normal altitude. At that altitude, he was able to regain control of the plane.
The author used this as a metaphor for life. When things get out of control, let go.
This is a perfect metaphor Joey. When the aircraft gets out of control, beyond our understanding or we don't know what to do, let go. Consciousness will return and you will be able to steer again.
I love it. Thank you.
Yes James, I have found it incredible the way we are taught often to grab onto those great ideas. Hold them tightly! Write them down!… yet, what is the fear? And besides, what has us so convinced we came up with the idea? What makes us think in such a way that we believe we originated the thought? What lack and foolishness to think that without us these ideas would not have come about.
Great ideas make their way into the world eventually. Through this person or the next, we've all heard the saying that nothing can stop an idea who's time has come.
Relax… let those fears subside… those thoughts based on limitation which are holding onto a myriad of complex ideas and stories to support the whole limiting story… and just see… a whole new world is awaiting. A world of new thoughts… new realizations…
I have found that by challenging myself to 'forget' actually has improved my ability to' remember'. How cooky is that? I have said to myself “let go of this thought, and let it return to me when it is more relevant to the moment”. I have been absolutely astounded by things returning to my mind in conversations and I have thought “wow, how could I have possible remembered that? how can my brain be so perfectly supportive?”.
Doing this meditation of surrendering and observing teaches the practicer that he/she is actually not in control of the stream of consciousness. That you are a part of it. That you share in the intelligence. And it seems that the more you understand you tap into this consciousness, the more you can tap in. In my experience people who try and keep it all locked up in their brain do just that, 'lock' themselves up. They end up with brain confusion in conversations and get words muddled up saying this instead of that… they get frustrated with their mind… they get the sensation of having that word just on the tip of their tongue.
Whenever that happens to me I just go “ok son, time to unwind that myriad of complexity… you're pushing too hard on something… forget about it… let it go… if it were important enough it would come through… when the time is right… it will present itself again”. You get it? 'Present' itself again… in the present… We try to bring the future into the present sometimes, wanting to evolve the world faster than it will move… but if thats how it worked, then the present would maybe be called the future.
Presence… observation… just see how long you can sit there without defining your experience… yourself… your thoughts… See if you can just feel… And I don't mean sitting there thinking to yourself “I am meditating…” see if you can go beyond any dialogue what so ever to that point I mentioned before where you begin to dig in and out of a lucid state of being. Don't even try label your feelings by saying “i feel hot” or “my body feels uncomfortable”… Really try, without trying at all, to forget all descriptions about who you are, where you are, what you feel. I know that if you persist at this you will begin to feel like you are not yourself… that you have no boundries… that you may feel such a loss of identity with things that you literally wake up back on earth again and have a sort of rebirthing experience.
Let me know how it goes!!
Great entry. It's essential that we leave stuff that we need to think about. I recently felt the idea…it now hurts to think; it was a great revelation.