Introduction
Welcome to tonight’s guided meditation. I’m going to steer a sit for an hour. You’re going to be sitting for an hour, after which after that, we’ll see if you’ve gotten any questions or comments or reports or whatever. As usual with this hour of guidance, you don’t must do it! Just do your individual meditation when you want, but when you want some guidance, I’ll be leading things along. My only real request is that you are trying to take a seat without moving. That’s it! If you’ve gotten to maneuver, attempt to be very, very quiet.
Meditation
So let’s begin just by asking yourself the query, What’s it wish to be me without delay? After which looking. Not assuming you recognize the reply, but actually reflecting inward and seeing the state of your mind, the state of your emotions, the state of your physical body. Just basically what does it feel wish to be you on this moment. So again, as a substitute of considering you already know, actually look. Perhaps it modified because the last time you looked. After which whatever that’s like, let or not it’s that way. Don’t try to vary it. Let go entirely of the concept of trying to vary it and as a substitute see when you can just let or not it’s the way in which it’s. Let’s just try this together for a little bit while just keep form of tuning in and allowing.
Excellent. Now I simply want you to note that awareness is already present without you doing anything in any respect. You’re not in some way now going to remember and also you weren’t before. It’s already there–it’s all the time been there. So just notice that that awareness is already present, and it was already present. There’s nothing to do to make awareness occur–it’s already on. So just notice that.
What are you noticing? You’re noticing that noticing is happening. You’re noticing that an experience is occurring. You’re noticing that metaphorically the lights are on. In experience there’s stuff happening that’s the notice that’s all the time present regardless of what. So just notice that that’s all the time present regardless of what it’s already on. It’s already happening. You didn’t must flip a switch or tighten up or try to pay attention or do anything–it’s just there.
And simply to play with that a little bit bit, I would like you to attempt to develop into more aware.
Now, try as hard as you possibly can. Work really hard at it–struggle struggle struggle struggle struggle effort effort effort. Change into more aware without delay–do it, do it. Change into more aware.
Good luck with that. Now that you just’re exhausted, I would like you to show awareness off, okay? Just make it stop. Seriously, do it, stop awareness. That didn’t work either, did it? Notice that you may’t make it more and you possibly can’t make it less. It’s just there no matter anything you are trying to do to it. It’s just there. So, in a meditation practice like this, where the major thing we’re doing a whole lot of the time–not all the time–however the major thing we’re doing a whole lot of the time is resting in awareness, there’s not lots to do since you’re already as aware as you’re going to get. We’re just being that awareness. We’re just coming from that awareness. So let’s rest as the notice that’s already present for a little bit while together.
Notice that when resting as awareness that’s already present, there’s really nothing to your mind to do in any respect. It would keep doing stuff–blah blah blah blah blah–doing stuff, doing stuff–but it surely’s not actually helping with the meditation in any respect. It’s not making awareness more present. Awareness isn’t something you’ve gotten to deal with since the thing that’s specializing in the notice is the notice so you simply rest as awareness you rest as experience itself–just stuff happening.
So don’t try to manage your mind. It may be busy and considering lots–that’s okay. Or, it may be trying to manage, but it might probably’t really control. So the stance here is we’re just not going to provide it any encouragement. It’s like there’s a man on the state fair with a truck and he’s attempting to sell really awful corn dogs. He’s doing this to get you to purchase the corn dog, after which has great promoting, after which has really good graphics, after which they’ve coloured swirl corn dogs now and stuff like that. Just every kind of horrible ways to get you to purchase a corn dog that you just don’t want. But when you just never give them any money for his corn dogs, he’s going to pack up and go home eventually. So we just don’t encourage him. But neither are you attempting to make the mind go away, or stop it or anything, you’re just not giving it any attention. As an alternative, awareness is just resting in awareness itself.
Should you end up caught up in considering, that’s buying a corn dog! Just set the damned thing down and back away.
Notice when you just rest here a little bit bit, you begin to tune into some real openness. Awareness itself outside of the considering process may be very very wide open. Awareness itself is just like the sky. It’s just broad and straightforward–wide awake, unimpeded. It welcomes every little thing–rejects nothing.
And see that a minimum of a part of the notice is kind of still. Quite a lot of stillness in that. Within the lightest way, while not working at it, just remaining nice and open. Tuning into awareness that’s all the time been there. Just just very frivolously notice the stillness that’s at the middle of that. Within the core of it there’s just deep deep deep stillness along with spaciousness–very roomy, very open, very nice–still and spacious.
Should you end up interacting with the considering, just set that down. Again, you don’t must stop the considering, just don’t interact. Come back to simply this openness and stillness that’s already there. You don’t must make it; you don’t construct it; you don’t cultivate it: it’s just there.
If we keep physically moving it’s very difficult to get in contact with this stillness. The physical movement will cause the interaction with considering to actually kick up, so we stay physically really still, but it surely’s very relaxed loose soft gentle stillness, not rigidity. Not tight or stiff–very loose.
Now, similar to you would be resting in awareness and you would have a stomach ache, or feel really good in your stomach, or have a good muscle or have a loose muscle. In the exact same way, as we’re resting as wide awake wide openness feeling this stillness, we will allow the machinery of the mind to get really dull–or not. Should you’re finding yourself going to sleep or getting dull, sit up nice and straight. You may even open your eyes, if that works for you. We just need to not let the dullness of the machinery of thought take over. Just as when you had such a nasty stomach ache it just form of took over the experience, in the identical way, when you’re letting the thought activity part get really dull and sleepy and begin to enter hypnagogia or whatever, it’s going to form of take over the experience. It won’t make the notice less aware, but it would obscure it. So, we sit up; we stay nice and alert. We have now the intention to have interest in awareness itself.
Excellent. Now tune into body sensation. That may be respiratory, that may be just the sensation of sitting, whatever, but tune in into body sensation–all those feelings of the body. Not letting thought activity concerning the body take over but simply feeling the body.
And it’s possible you’ll notice, especially as thought activity concerning the body shouldn’t be engaged with, it’s possible you’ll notice that the body starts to feel lots less like some form of bag of guts and bones, but rather more like seems like energy feels–like vibration and movement and tingling and energy. That’s what the body seems like once we’re not overriding all that with thoughts concerning the body. The mind’s image of the body is prefer it’s a automotive or something full of parts that do things, however the body doesn’t see itself like that. The body, when it’s just experiencing itself the body’s sense of itself is only a field of energy. It’s very strong. It’s very beautiful, actually. It’s a beautiful feeling, to simply let the body feel like itself for once as a substitute of masked by the mind’s ideas concerning the body. So, feel all sensation from the body’s perspective. Feel that buzziness, that tingling, that energy, that continuous upwelling of life. It’s very nice by itself. Notice that once we leave aside the mind’s ideas concerning the body, notice that the boundaries of the body won’t be what won’t feel like what you think that they’re. They may not even feel just like the shape of a body. So, just feel all that energy, whatever we call it–there’s no good word for it–I’ll just call it energy. Just feel that life surging within the body–all through it, in every single place. It’s just radiant with this sense of life. Again, that’s what the body seems like once we’re not experiencing it from inside considering. It’s this delicious flow of energy.
And now, notice inside that energy and throughout that energy is just space–plenty of spaciousness–plenty of openness–plenty of awake awareness and tremendous stillness. So, even all that movement, all that energy is occurring against a backdrop, or infused with, tremendous spaciousness and awakeness. And that spaciousness and awakeness shouldn’t be the energy but it surely’s also not not the energy. And it’s also not not not the energy! So just feel that. Rest as wide awakeness, feeling the body and noticing this tremendous space and really moderately beautiful energy.
Stay wide awake. Sit up. Maintain interest. It’s not nap time, yet.
Now, resting as wide awake wide openness that’s all the time been there, take heed to the sounds–throughout. You may hear some humming of varied machinery, you may hear some hissing of varied sorts, you’ll hear my voice at times, you’ll hear people moving, despite the fact that they’re presupposed to be super quiet. Hear every kind of stuff. Listen rigorously, as if there’s no body there in any respect, there’s just listening, as when you’re sound-transparent. There’s nothing inside you that impedes the sound in any way there’s just hearing. Just tune into the sphere of sound. It’s almost such as you’re sitting at the underside of an ocean of sound and the currents of the ocean of sound are only moving around without bumping into anything in any respect. Should you take heed to the sound outside of the mind, outside of considering, not labeling it, not attempting to tell what it’s or what it isn’t, simply listening, it just becomes a field of vibration. A field of energy, only a bunch of movement, a bunch of buzziness, very much like the body sensations in a way. Sometimes the vibration gets louder or softer. Sometimes larger waves move through it. Sometimes it’s more patterned, sometimes more entropic. Only a bunch of buzziness, that really is moderately soothing and nice.
Good. Then notice inside all this buzzy sound is just silence surrounding it. Infusing it’s tremendous silence, which is just one other form of stillness. See when you can hear that silence. It won’t make all of the sound go away. The sound continues to be there, but inside it, around it, is tremendous silence. Notice how that may be very similar–possibly even almost similar to–the stillness within the body.
Excellent. If you wish to go further with this–you don’t must–if you wish to go further with this, open your eyes, and without staring hard at anything, keeping your eyes moderately relaxed and soft, notice the room around you. Notice the entire scene, but stay out of fascinated with it. So it’s not “oh, I’m this,” it’s a bunch of sunshine and colours and shapes and patterns and highlights and shade and all of it’s moving. Should you stay in your mind, it would seem real still, but when you get into the actual experience you’ll notice that there are not any straight lines. All of the lines are form of wiggling and there’s a whole lot of movement and a whole lot of colours and textures and lights and darks. Should you really calm down your mind, you’ll notice that this brightness and colorfulness of the visual field is said to the sensations within the body buzzing and tingling and the sounds of the room buzzing and vibrating. It’s a form of visual vibration–very apparent when you calm down. Should you stay in your mind, it would be invisible, because your ideas about what you’re seeing are so rigid and glued. Should you drop out of the ideas, it would immediately develop into slithery and wriggly and vibratory.
So, just along with your eyes open, calm down your gaze. Let the entire visual field just vibrate and wriggle and move and be vibrant. It’s that very same aliveness; it’s the vibrancy; it’s full of energy, very nice energy, very beautiful energy. So just pay attention to that. I’m talking about the conventional visual field, not that you just’re going to see some lines of force or laser beams or something. That is just a daily visual field while you calm down your concepts about it. It’s entirely in motion. Move your eyes forwards and backwards and see how the entire scene keeps moving but your thoughts about it would be well every little thing’s staying still but that’s an idea. The visual field is moving like crazy. Tremendous movement, change, vibration, energy, beautiful nice energy. Really you would just sit like this just noticing this. It’s very lovely.
But, as usual, I would like you to note that behind and inside all this visual vibration, this riot of visual exuberance, is total darkness, total stillness, total silence, and that each are there together. You don’t must imagine it. I’m not asking you to picture darkness. Just see it the way in which the entire visual field is like painted on a black glass plate. At the identical time, tuning in to the silence within the auditory field, tuning into the stillness within the body.
Excellent. Now let’s do the identical thing with what we’ve been setting aside, which is that machinery of thought, the mind itself. Just notice that the activity of thought is just a whole lot of movement–a whole lot of change, like waves of vibration. It’s actually vibration in feeling. There’s a way it feels to think, that’s the deep a part of considering. It’s not the words and the images, it’s a sense. Should you tune into that feeling of considering, it’s a flow, a vibration–a series of waves that move through sensation that eventually come out as words and pictures but, deeply, are more a form of feeling. And again, just as all the time, when you tune into that flow of considering, it feels very nice. Lots of us have form of an aversive relationship with our mind, but actually, the flow of thought feels really good. The energy of considering is nice. It’s interesting here because I’m asking you to contact the energy of considering, but not from inside considering. You’re still coming at it from just being spacious awareness. You may’t think your way into this: it won’t work. You’ve to easily feel it after which, as all the time, notice inside that energy of considering, across the energy of considering, behind the energy of considering is just spacious silent stillness, darkness, enormously vast dark silent stillness.
So we feel the vibration of body sensation and feel this vast stillness. Inside it, hear the vibration of sound of the world around us, and see the vast silent stillness inside it. See the vibration of the visual field throughout us, the exuberant display, and see the dark silent stillness inside it, around it, behind it. Even our thoughts, even our mind, our imagination, our verbal thoughts, our visual thoughts–it’s all vibratory flowing energy and inside and around and behind that’s just spacious stillness, silence, wakefulness, wide awake wakefulness.
Inside and around and behind and at the middle of every little thing is that this abyss. A terrifying total abyss that can be tremendously nice. But we will turn it around, too, and that’s much more interesting. From this abyss of stillness– silence–spacious awareness, the energy of thought bubbles forth, and becomes all our dreams and plans and concepts and neuroticism and stories and every little thing. It vibrates into every little thing from this silence–stillness–wakefulness. It bubbles forth the attractive vision of the world around us, in all its complexity. Creativity–riotous activity–is pouring forth out of this chasm. It vibrates into all of the sounds we hear–every sound your mother’s voice, the air conditioner, a jet overhead, a dog sniffling your ear–all sound is bubbling forth out of nothing.
The sensation of your body, all of the sensations of your body, the energy of your body, the energy of feeling alive, the energy of movement, of your heartbeat, of respiratory, of a crick in your neck, of arthritis pain, of the nice sensation of getting eaten, surges forth out of wide open stillness and silence. And it’s the surging forth that’s all experience. Even your worst moment is just more exquisite surging forth of experience from nothing. A complete miracle resting on nothing. A way of deep love and appreciation bubbling forth from the void. All the things is infused with this primordial purity of absolute awakeness. Can you are feeling it? Look, it’s right there. Can you are feeling it? It’s not anywhere else. It’s not some other time. It’s right there.
Now, let this expression, this vibratory, vivacious, exuberant brocade of experience, reflect back by itself stillness, silence, darkness that’s each its origin, its destination, and its current existence, and just feel grateful. Feel gratitude for this experience. Gratitude that anything is occurring in any respect. Probably the most unlikely thing on the planet is that anything is occurring in any respect. Gratitude for this moment.
Excellent. Be at liberty to maneuver and stretch.
Dharma Talk, Q&A
So I’m an enormous fan of imaginal stuff. The imagination may be very underrated in our society but it surely’s an awesome thing. Here, though, I’m not asking you to assume all these things. We’re not doing an imagination thing because I could see how you may sit here and listen to what I’m saying after which try to assume it. That might be an affordable response. Nonetheless, that’s not actually what I’m asking you to do. I’m asking you to note it because every little thing I’m describing is true there to experience directly without imagining. Imagination is certainly one of the things you may notice, but it surely’s not the major thing we’re doing. We’re just tuning into what’s there to see. So, when you get used to seeing in this manner, it’s very apparent, and after some time, it’s super apparent. You don’t must try very very hard to do what we were just doing. It’s just obvious.
So when you’re spending the entire time trying hard to assume what I’m saying it’s not that that’s some giant mistake. It will possibly help, but that’s not what we’re doing. As an alternative, it’s exactly what I used to be describing. It’s like, okay, notice the emotions of your body, okay, feel something in your body and now let go of thoughts about it, since the thoughts about it are going to are likely to make it into an object. That’s that’s the imaginary part–your thoughts about it–and it keeps it in a certain box. Should you let go of that, though, you’ll start experiencing the thing, for instance the feeling in your body. That immediately presents itself otherwise while you’re not inside thoughts about body sensation. The body sensations are vibratory. They’ll feel like long waves, possibly really fast waves, and every little thing in between in cross currents, but it surely won’t feel like bones and meat and veins and stuff. It’ll feel vibratory, and that’s just directly experiential. You simply must have the opportunity to put aside your thoughts about it, which may be the toughest thing I’m asking you to do. I’m not saying don’t give it some thought, just don’t come from those ideas. They may be there, but you’re just coming from a unique place. Just experience it, just feel it. That seems to be hard to do at first, but when you get the hang of it, then it’s super easy, and also you’ll just feel the buzzy tingliness of the body.
Then the following move is to note that inside or around or behind or inside that buzzy tingling, there’s space–you simply look and there it’s. It would be there. It’s a sense. I’m saying look, but you are feeling and it’s there. If at first you don’t notice that, then there’s the sting of your practice and that’s the place you recognize go– to the buzzy tingling–and let it and just keep feeling that. Then, eventually, you’ll notice “oh, what Michael’s asking me to do is like I’m a page of text and there’s words and now he wants me to note the page. Oh, there it’s!” So that you’re noticing the buzzy tingliness in your body after which I’m like notice the space. It’s good there– it’s just the thing the buzzy tingliness is occurring inside, form of. None of that’s imaginary, you’re just noticing it by letting go of ideas of what you think that you’re presupposed to feel.
It’s the identical thing with sounds. We have now an idea “oh that’s the sound of the air conditioner, that’s the sound of somebody moving, that’s the sound of a automotive going by, that’s the sound of Michael talking,” and also you keep labeling. But nobody’s doubting that you recognize the origin of the sounds; that’s not the thing we’re doing. It doesn’t matter that you may work out where the sounds are coming from. As an alternative, let go of those ideas, set it aside. The thing that’s finding the origin can do its thing, but you don’t care.
What you wish to do is hear that each one the sounds are only vibration. They’re just various longwave, shortwave, interacting vibrations. It’s an entire bunch of stuff occurring and you possibly can just hear it directly. As soon as you’re outside the labeling it would sound like that, especially when you just calm down, then you definitely can just hang with that. That’s the energy–whatever which means–it’s vibratory. And that’s already a great place. But then, as a substitute of the letters on the page, you take a look at the page. As an alternative of hearing the vibration, hear beneath it or around it or whatever. There’s the background of the silence and the spaciousness. It’s right there, it’s not some form of imaginary thing that we’re invoking.
So that is direct perception. By letting go of ideas about perception you possibly can go right down. Should you do it enough you’ll just keep going into this well of just: Wow! There’s a whole lot of stillness there. Whoa! There’s a whole lot of silence there! Whoa! There’s a whole lot of space there! That’s what I’m calling abyssal or chasm-like. It’s just really there. But that’s only one direction. We will go the opposite direction, which is form of the miracle direction: it’s like all this every little thing is just coming out of that. Why? All the things was, only a moment ago, this abyss, and now it’s all of this–and you possibly can just observe it happening. You may not see the long chain of it happening. You’d probably must be in a fairly high concentration state to note that, but you possibly can just–there it’s–there it’s, and you possibly can sense directly that the abyss continues to be in it. And so it’s crazy, it’s miraculous, and there’s not a great experience or a nasty experience since it’s just all just the identical wild experience. There doesn’t appear to be any reason for it. I don’t mean that in a meaninglessness way, I mean it in a wow! form of way. It’s just happening.
So, again, we’re not doing an imagination exercise, we’re doing direct perception. Just dropping ideas and just noticing, and we went out and in. The entire thing was: let’s go all of the method to just abyss, after which let’s come back out and see this. And this looks pretty different from that view. If any of those–I’ll call it “moves”, or let’s say, “ways of seeing,” we’ll speak a little bit within the language of St. Burbea, you recognize, like . So that you see it as energy, after which see it as empty, after which go on see it as exuberant expression. All those are only ways of seeing, they’re not adding stuff to it. It’s more like subtracting. Good.
So what about your experience, or questions, comments, intense vitriolic complaints. Oh, we’ve got a vitriolic criticism!
Questioner 1: I desired to ask about in search of the dark blankness within the visual field.
Michael: It’s not a special effect, it’s just there.
Questioner 1: I feel like I see all this like buzzy movement energy glowy stuff. After which I see that it’s like a little bit bit like flickering.
Michael: Okay, so when you put it in that metaphor, the opposite side of the glint is all the time darkness. It’ll flicker into something and go blank after which flicker into something after which go dark. So it’s not all happening directly, often–it might probably–blank every little thing goes out, but that’s form of a special experience. Normally it’s just form of “each are there.” You said flickering. That’s form of an interesting method to go there. Sure.
Questioner 1: It’s like not all flickering directly but like each little pixel is flickering.
Michael: That’s right, but then, when you calm down and get used to seeing that, it’s all doing that. What happens is, when you look big, you’ll begin to make stuff into stuff. You get contained in the ideas of the room as a substitute of the room. So you’ve gotten to calm down back out of the ideas, after which the entire thing is, even just the dots, are only doing that. Okay, so that you got the proper idea. That’s a method to go there.
Questioner 1: Thanks.
Michael: But notice you’re seeing it, you’re not attempting to make something up, right? It’s good there.
Questioner 1: A follow-up query: After I feel prefer it’s flickering, then I feel like I just have an concept that there should be something within the background–or do you really see black?
Michael: Search for yourself. It’s interesting. It’s regardless of the other side of seeing is. I’m calling it blackness.
Questioner 1: Thanks.
Michael: What else? Questions? Comments? Corn Dogs?
Questioner 2: Just a few of the experiences you described tonight I’ve heard under different names: the land of infinite consciousness, the land of no-thingness.
Are these related ideas or are these definitively distinct?
Michael: You’re talking concerning the arupa jhanas or ayatanas. I often translate ayatana as sphere as a substitute of land but, okay, land. They’re different. They’re related, but different. We didn’t do no-thingness in any respect, even the abyss I’m talking about is a little bit different than the seventh jhana, a minimum of in my experience of the seventh Jhana. So when you consider it as a three-dimensional possibility space, we’re somewhere nearby, but it surely’s not the identical point, okay? And that’s okay! Within the three-dimensional jhana space there’s a whole lot of stuff that’s not the jhanas, right? There’s an entire bunch of possibilities. We’re doing something a little bit different only since the jhanas are form of hyper-defined. They’re very distinct points in that possibility space and we’re doing something that’s a little bit more open throughout there. Okay, so it’d for some people intersect every infrequently, but it surely’s also not quite that prefer it’s got to be that one spot, okay? But, after all, you recognize, obviously, you would say what I used to be talking about with the vibration of the body is just piti, and I wouldn’t complain about that. In order that was Arupa Jhana right there you recognize when you really got into it, so I believe we’re playing in the identical possibility space, but we’re not being quite so this one, this one, this one, about it, okay?
Questioner 2: Thanks.
Questioner 3: My query is, I don’t have any problems with the concept of visual blackness when you will, but I don’t know what silence is. I’m not talking about thoughts, I’m talking about actual vibrations which might be ceaseless which might be just ever present which have all the time been ever present since my youngest time. So being given the duty of imagining silence.
Michael: Don’t imagine it. It doesn’t make the sound go away. Should you can see the darkness inside the visual field, it’s the identical task, just in sound as a substitute of sight. So just play with that and remember, similar to while you’re seeing the visual field that way, it doesn’t make vision go away. You may still see. You may still hear the sounds but you’re hearing the stillness behind it also. It’s the identical game.
Questioner 4: You said that the energy within the flow of thoughts is interesting, so I believe it’s interesting after I hear an “I really like you” or “I hate you,” you recognize there are feelings behind it. I understand the way it’s interesting that flow but what about my flow of thoughts after I’m doing something like paying bills online, there’s nothing interesting.
Michael: You’re talking about bored thoughts?
Questioner 4: Perhaps, yeah. I mean also with mental considering like work, coding, you recognize all sorts–there’s no feeling in it.
Michael: Okay, so some thoughts trigger feelings, some don’t. But that’s not the sensation I’m talking about. You’re using the word feeling to mean emotion, which is certainly one of its meanings. But I’m using it to mean physical sensation: non-emotional style sensation. So, similar to you possibly can feel the buzzy tingliness in your body, I presume. That form of feeling. Thoughts–any thought, whatever the content, the content in this manner of working doesn’t matter in any respect. You simply notice the buzzy tingling energy of the thought activity, okay? Because despite the fact that we’re strongly conditioned to think that thoughts are spiritual, they don’t have physicality, you possibly can feel it. It’s an energy in your body. That’s what I mean after I say the sensation of considering.
Questioner 4: I believe I’m not probably sensitive enough to feel the buzzing with some form of thoughts.
Michael: You were talking concerning the emotion of the thoughts?
Questioner 4: The energy behind the thought. I feel like there’s no energy on the subject of some mental form of considering.
Michael: Okay, just keep noticing more with more rest and also you’ll notice all of them have energy, or all are energy.
Questioner 5: I’m not exactly sure what my query is, but that was very psychedelic for me.
Michael: Well, I’ve never done any psychedelics [grin], but, yeah, people tell me that it does seem that way.
Questioner 5: What’s that? How could I sit here and take heed to you and do some stuff and I’m now I’m tripping?
Michael: You may’t cut open a molecule of LSD and discover a psychedelic experience. It’s just turning off the considering of things, similar to I’m having you set it aside. After which what’s there’s what’s there. It’s like doors of perception, Aldous Huxley: you’re turning off the reduction valve and just seeing what’s actually present. In order that’s why it starts to seem like that form of experience.
Questioner 5: That’s cool so I can just try this?
Michael: Well, you simply did! That is what everyone will inform you, just nobody believes it, and that’s you don’t need that drug. It’s just doing what you simply did with a bunch of additional discomfort.
Let’s make that our final query back there.
Questioner 6: Hello! I’ve done certainly one of your meditations before where you form of like get us to go move our awareness from behind our eyes into our heart chest area. I noticed after I can get there I can really drop in and feel like I’m on this spacious awareness. But I actually have a very hard time getting there. I’m wondering if there’s any cues you need to use that may also help me drop in? Because today I used to be all behind my eyes.
Michael: What are the cues I offer you to return from the guts?
Questioner 6: I don’t know, just now we’re gonna drop in we’re gonna move the notice. Sometimes I can do it and other times…
Michael: Do you think that the notice is basically centered in your heart once we move it down?
Questioner 6: After I give it some thought there it feels different.
Michael: It does, I agree, but when it’s not there’s it really coming out of your head?
Questioner 6: I assume it’s not likely anywhere.
Michael: It’s not anywhere, that’s right, and so we’re moving around where we’re more aware of. After I say put aside the machinery of considering, it’s form of the identical move. It’s just saying set it aside and feel your heart, okay? So a method or one other I’m going to trick you or guide you or cajole you into letting go of all those ideas after which it starts to open up. So when you can get used to either moving your attention into your heart or into your belly. It does matter where you pretend you’re putting it. Should you put it in your heart you’ll feel more emotionally open, more joy, more love. Should you put it in your belly, you’ll feel presence and a whole lot of just energy, a whole lot of vitality. So you recognize wherever we’re imagining it’s does affect the experience. But when we’re sticking it up here [head], often then we’re going to get a whole lot of ideas happening and so, until you learn to note the ideas as energy they may just act like gum within the machine, so we wish to simply step outside that, nonetheless you possibly can do it. If it really works so that you can just feel such as you’re dropping into your heart. Are you able to do it without delay?
Questioner 6: I used to be trying the entire time, and there was even a moment where I opened my eyes and it was form of moving like before you even said things were going to maneuver, I used to be like moving, but then you definitely said it after which swiftly I couldn’t do it anymore.
Michael: There’s like a rubber band popping you back. So, snip the rubber band and just sit there, okay? The one reason the entire visual field looks still–ever–is since you’re using your thoughts to maintain it that way, holding it together to tighten it because really it’s going like [vroop] right? Okay?
Questioner 6: So, are you want that each one the time?
Michael: [laughter] Not on a regular basis.
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