Meditate Outside the Mind

Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft

Welcome to tonight’s guided meditation. As usual, I’ll lead about an hour-long guided sit, and you might be welcome to follow along, or not. You may do your individual meditation, for those who wish, just enjoy being within the room. You may follow along the entire way, you’ll be able to follow along partway, after which be, like, wait, he just went somewhere I don’t wish to go. It’s as much as you. The contract we’re making here is: so long as you’re within the room, you’re going to be quiet and still. Aside from that, whatever you do within the silence of your individual mind, or the cacophony of your individual mind, is as much as you.

When you’re not used to sitting on the ground for an hour along with your legs crossed, there are still just a few chairs available, so now’s your likelihood to panic and flee to a chair. I like to recommend that you simply try this for those who’re not used to sitting on the ground. 

Aside from that, let’s do slightly little bit of seated movement, where we’re just making circles. You don’t must do the thing I’m doing, do whatever feels good in your body, but make some circles along with your hips, perhaps make some circles along with your wrists, perhaps your elbows are dying to circle, perhaps your shoulders wish to feel circular, perhaps your neck is all stiff, and you would like to circle your neck around a bit. Possibly every little thing desires to make a circle directly, including each finger. Whatever it’s, just allow your body to feel loose, and relaxed, and open, and fluid, and good. Get some good feeling in your body, whatever that’s like, after which slowly just start bringing it in slightly bit bringing it back down. Just as we normally do, just on the very end, moving so in such tiny movements which you could’t tell after some time whether you’re actually moving anymore or not. When you sit there long enough, in fact, you’ll notice that just sitting upright on the ground, and even in a chair, that you simply’re never actually all the best way still. There are at all times little adjustments happening, little movements. So just find that nice relaxed, balanced place where you’ll be able to’t even tell exactly for those who’re moving anymore or not, and just remain there.

Meditation

Then let’s do the identical thing with our minds. Just the thing you simply did along with your body, do it along with your thoughts. Just let your thoughts go in circles, or run around, or massively proliferate, do some type of tango, or whatever. Just get the entire thing flowing in there really fast. Attempt to think loads, think extra, after which just loosen up, until you’ll be able to’t actually tell for those who’re considering or not anymore. 

Then ask yourself the query, What’s it prefer to be me immediately? Then, just look, feel into your being and just see what it’s like. What’s it like within the body, what’s it like in emotions, what’s it like within the mind, what’s it like in every other way it’s to be you? How does it feel to be you? Just keep tuning into that, and whatever it’s prefer to be you immediately, just let that be that way: allow it to be that way. Don’t try to vary it, don’t try to regulate it, don’t attempt to grab onto it and wrestle it like a bull by the horns. Don’t attempt to fix it, or polish it, or sacralize it, or anything. Just let it’s exactly the best way it’s immediately. Let’s just sit for at the very least a pair moments together, allowing yourself to be exactly, exactly, exactly, how you might be immediately, without changing it.

Good. Now, for the following section, I would like you to easily meditate outside your mind. That’s it, just meditate outside the mind. Allow awareness itself to be naturally with none effort, without doing anything, or manipulating it in any respect, just let it’s wide open. Just the best way you’ll be able to hear the stuff on this planet around in all directions without trying, the best way light comes into your eyes in the event that they’re open from all varieties of directions without trying, just let awareness be wide open like that without trying. It’s just receiving. As usual, for those who can, resist the urge to grab onto thoughts, you’ll be able to still have all of the thoughts arising. They’ll still be happening, that’s high-quality, we’re just not grabbing onto them, we’re just leaving those things alone, and, as an alternative, simply being this spacious open awakeness. 

It doesn’t take any effort to be–you already are spacious awakeness. The one thing that closes that down, is after we grab on to the thoughts, after which get wrapped up in them. So, all we’re going to do isn’t grab onto them, and rest as spacious awakeness. Just to maintain it just slightly bit sharp. If you would like to, you’ll be able to sit up, you’ll be able to sit along with your eyes open. That helps, but in addition, just notice the approaching and going of the wave of the breath. You would possibly notice it as a rising and falling wave, but just with like 1% of your attention. We’re probably not specializing in it, you’re just not losing it. The most important thing that’s happening is you’re resting as wide open wide awakeness. 

I call this dropping the ball because after we grab onto a thought, it’s like grabbing a ball. The image is playing catch with slightly dog that grabs the ball and it just holds on together with his little jaws. It won’t provide you with the ball back, and also you’re saying to the dog, “drop it, drop it.” Then, if it drops it, then, now we will play again, now it’s relaxed and natural. So every time the mind, out of habit, grabs the ball and desires to chew on it, chew on it, or bite it, you simply drop it. Loosen up the jaw, the ball drops out on the bottom, boink, and your mind is just free again, just relaxed and open.  In order that’s all you’re doing, nothing in any respect, hanging out with the breath wave slightly,  bit but mainly just sitting there being wide awake. 

Then, again, for those who notice, oh, now I’m all caught up on this thought of those recent cartoons on Disney Plus which might be just so good, I can’t stop eager about it. Just drop it, drop it, after which, bip, and you then’re back in spacious freedom. So let’s try this together for some time, resting in natural openness, wide open, wide awakeness, with just the slightest, slightest hint of attention on the rising and falling of the breath wave.

Just drop it, and just rest as wide open wide awakeness. When you’ve ever had a bag of chips within the kitchen, and it’s just sitting there. Each time you walk within the kitchen, the bag of chips is there, and you simply end up eating them again. You don’t notice the transition from just being there to, chips are in my mouth. It’s like that’s the type of thing with the considering: just don’t eat the chips, right? That’s it, just don’t eat them. But you simply are so used to that hand within the bag, after which it’s in your mouth, and you then’re eating them again, that type of unconscious grabbing. So, the thing here is to only be natural, just loosen up, and be wide open wide awakeness. Notice when the chips are within the mouth, after which the metaphor messes up, spit them out, or something. Come back to only sitting there, wide awake, not engaged. That doesn’t mean we’re not engaging in any respect–we will still feel our bodies and see the world and listen to the sounds and feel emotions. All of that is occurring, it’s all vividly happening, we’re just not digging into the thoughts about it.

This might be intensely difficult, not only due to habit of grabbing onto the thoughts but in addition, the thoughts are what we’re using to distract ourselves from what we’re actually feeling. When you don’t distract yourself from what you’re actually feeling, you would possibly must feel your body, you would possibly must feel your feelings, your emotions, and really notice what that’s like. 95% of the stuff we do in life is to only desperately distract from feeling what we’re feeling. I’m just really into competitive yodeling, right? Well, actually, no, it’s just anything to distract from whatever emotions are arising. 

So, though it needs to be a comparatively easy thing, one would think, to only not pick up the ball. There’s actually a type of compulsion to select it up. It’s a fixation, because then we don’t must feel what we’re feeling. So, the invitation here, only for the length of the meditation, is to come back out of the dream of distraction into easy presence, into being present with what you’re feeling, and just whatever is occurring right within the room.

Excellent. So, let’s switch it up. Now, as an alternative of not engaging in any respect with thoughts, I would like you to interact only a tiny bit, but in a really specific way. Still not engaging with the content–we don’t care in any respect what the thought is about in any way–it doesn’t matter. But, assuming there’s only a flow of considering happening, I would like you to only notice that flow of thought. It is perhaps only a stream of phonemes burbling out of the entire of your unconscious, stuff coming up, so just notice that stream of thought activity. It is perhaps phonemes, it is perhaps images, may very well be pictures or words. 

I would like you to look with numerous curiosity, numerous openness, and just see for those who can notice exactly where that’s coming from. Where is the stream of thoughts arising from? Where is it arising, just in your individual experience. This isn’t something you’ll be able to determine, you’ve gotten to only listen, or look, or feel. Just keep attempting to notice, where does that stream of thought originate? When you look very fastidiously, you’ll notice it’s not coming from anywhere. All that stream of considering, all those thoughts that we spend a lot time engaging with, it’s not coming from anywhere. Then look, and see for those who can tell, again, without an idea, like, my head. Let’s see for those who can tell exactly just in your individual experience, without eager about it in any respect, where is it happening? Clearly, thoughts are happening, there’s a stream of thought activity, but where is it situated? You may have an idea, oh, it’s in my head, but where is it happening? They’re there as an experience, but they don’t appear to be coming from anywhere, and for those who look fastidiously, though they look like happening, they’re not happening anywhere.

Let’s see for those who can find where they vanished to. When the thought ends, just have a look at where it went. There might be these burbly trains of sounds and pictures. Each one in all those ends. Where did it go? Look. That’s like asking, where does a dream go once you get up. It doesn’t go anywhere, it’s just gone. So, all these thoughts that we’re having in our own experience, you’ll be able to just see they’re not coming from anywhere, they usually’re appearing, but not appearing anywhere. Then, after they are gone, they’re just gone. 

So, what even am a thought? More importantly, that is the large one to search for–I would like you to look, in your individual experience, don’t give it some thought, don’t draw from memory, don’t infer, just look: Who’s even having the thought? I would like you to look now, for real, look, find it. Who’s having the thought?  Find it, immediately. Look, seriously, look. Don’t give it some thought, don’t use your memory, don’t use inference. Don’t try to seek out the proper answer. I would like you to only simply trust your remark. Look: What’s having the thoughts? What’s experiencing the thoughts? 

When you look fastidiously, with numerous curiosity, and in your individual experience, my guess is you’ll be able to’t find anything. You may’t find anything in any respect experiencing the thoughts. So, there’s an experience of considering. It’s definitely an experience–there’s something there, it’s not nothing–but it surely’s an experience that’s coming from nowhere, happening nowhere specifically, and returning to nowhere specifically. And, it’s not even happening to anyone or anything specifically. It’s just happening. Look fastidiously, and also you’ll see that that’s the case. Vivid, brilliant, clear, perhaps even delicious, experience, that’s not happening anywhere, or manufactured from anything, or happening to anyone.

Good. Now, continuing to note that very unusual quality of experience without an experiencer, come back to easily sitting as wide awake wide openness, noticing breath. But, something’s modified. There’s the experience of wide open wide awakeness experiencing breath, or being breath, however the wide open wide awakeness isn’t some type of observer, and the breath itself isn’t a thing being observed. There’s just vivid experience itself, almost as if someone’s painting with light on a fog bank. The moment you re-engage thought, you’ll lose it, since you’ll be back right into a world of I’m over here, and the experience is over there. But keep coming back, noticing that, search for who’s having the experience. Notice you’ll be able to’t find an experiencer in any way, and the entire thing drops away into just wide awake wide openness with vivid experience.

Let’s sit with that for slightly while together.

This time, as an alternative of just dropping the ball, every time you notice, have a look at who’s having the experience, just look directly, right into the center of who’s having the experience, and the entire thing will just drop itself, will just unfold into wide open wide awakeness with none effort. Every time you look into who’s having the experience and you’ll be able to’t find them, it delivers you back into absolutely the easy presence. Just come right back to only sitting as wide open, wide awakeness. Every time, we land back in this easy presence. Notice the tremendous freshness. 

The mind can develop into very bored. It may possibly develop into very predictable. It at all times thinks it knows what’s going to occur next. But, if we sit outside the mind, every moment is fresh, recent, spontaneously arising. It has a minty fresh, just got here out of the oven, recent automobile thing. It’s only a brand recent moment, brand recent moment, brand recent moment. In the identical way, the mind might be very stale, very boring, very predictable, however the experiences of the physical being, the emotions, the body, the textures, the smells, the music, the sentiments within the body–may be very fresh, it’s very recent. It’s at all times different, at all times interesting, at all times curious. Sometimes it’s painful or difficult, sometimes not, sometimes each, or neither, but at all times fresh the primary time.

Sometimes in Vajrayana they use a phrase like primordial purity, and that’s at the very least a part of what they’re talking about: every experience is totally recent. It may possibly’t be dirty, or broken, or old, or repetitive, because each is totally freshly minted within the Forge of the Void. It just got here out, still glowing, still shiny. Well, it was really cold and my knees hurt, and I felt slightly bit nauseous. Yeah, but how was it? Shiny, it’s fresh. Things which might be absolutely recent have that ultra-poignant property of being totally open, totally innocent, totally unpredictable, naked, and raw, and lovely. 

When you’re sitting and eager about it, you’re totally lost. When you’re, like, Michael, I just can’t stop eating the chips, I’m failing, I just keep eager about it. That’s okay, just loosen up as much as you’ll be able to every time you hang on. It’s okay, you’ll be able to set them down again, and just feel the openness, it’s right there, it’s fresh. There’s no failing at this, there’s, just try again, let go again, come back to that openness, it’s even for a second. Just come back again. You is perhaps, like, I’m just experiencing the freshness of all my wounds and trauma and horrible feelings. It’s pretty hard. That’s how we work with those, welcoming them in easy presence, repeatedly. Not attempting to fix or attempting to avoid but simply sitting with them, letting them be themselves. That’s what caused the trauma in the primary place: they couldn’t be themselves. What if we just allow them to be themselves, exactly the best way they’re, then even that becomes exquisite, beautiful, just the best way it’s. Absolutely beautiful. Who’s even having this experience? Look, look.

Feeling the freshness, and the wonder, the openness, the wide open wide awakeness,

and just feeling gratitude, just gratitude, easy gratitude.

Excellent. Let’s end the meditation there.

I feel like I actually have tons of stuff to say but I’d quite hear what you’ve gotten to say, so if you’ve gotten something coming up you would like to share experiences, or perhaps questions arising. Just raise your hand and we’ll run over with a microphone and listen to what you’ve gotten to say. Keep in mind that after they provide you with the microphone that you simply are then being broadcast to the web permanently.

Questioner 1: You said that we keep considering with a view to avoid something. That’s

intriguing to me. Is it that we are attempting to avoid bad stuff that we consider about ourselves that we keep repressing?

Michael: That’s a bunch of it, right? We’ve got our core wounds, like, I’m a chunk of shit, and it feels really uncomfortable to think that, and feel that. It’s far more interesting to get into my competitive yodeling, and the small print, and just think, think, think, because then, I don’t must encounter that material. We’re just levitating through sheer considering power off that.

Questioner 1:  That makes numerous sense, that’s an interesting concept.

Michael: Not only that, though, it’s plenty of stuff.

Questioner 1: Could it even be that we’re afraid of nothingness, of the emptiness inside, the void, the abyss?

Michael: Absolutely, and, in truth, you will have noticed what we’re doing, especially for those who just sit there not engaging in thought, there’s a vivid experience happening. But, you’ll also keep noticing there’s this big spaciousness, and for numerous people who can feel pretty uncomfortable at first, since it’s very closely related to voidness or death or something like that. I might say it’s fear of death.

Questioner 1:  Yeah, or the absence of the ego, the voidness of the ego.

Michael: When you think you’re an ego, then the proven fact that that’s not what you’re inhabiting immediately, seems death-like, so yeah. All those things we don’t must confront if we’re just busy eager about whatever.

Questioner 1: Does that mean that we’ve to undergo the bad stuff ultimately, with a view to get to the great things? 

Michael: None of it’s bad stuff. 

Questioner 1: Well, what we expect is bad stuff, let’s say seeming bad stuff, we’ve bought into as being bad stuff.

Michael: I just wouldn’t call it undergo it I might just say…

Questioner 1:  You simply just avoid it? I mean just acknowledge it or sidestep it.

Michael: No, just rest in pure presence. 

Questioner 1: In order that’s a matter of not actually processing it in any way, like psychotherapy would suggest, as an example.

Michale: Well, in fact, go do therapy, with it you already know. Sure, why not?

Questioner 1: Nevertheless it’s not mandatory?

Michael: It is completely mandatory if it’s mandatory, right? It’s not like, don’t clean your automobile, type of saying the identical thing. Well, the cleanliness of my automobile is, in the ultimate evaluation, an empty concept, then I can just let it get as dirty as I would like. No, you continue to clean your automobile, do your therapy. It’s all of the relative world stuff that’s essential to do, it’s essential to have good relationships, and never be a jerk. But, at the identical time, there’s one other thing to do, or, let’s say, to note, or to be.

Questioner 1: Right, okay, well thanks.

Michael: Yep, I’m so enlightened, I never must change my underwear, right? Try that one on–that’s just like the Steve Jobs thing. What else is occurring on the market? I do change my underwear, simply to be clear.

Questioner 2:  That is more of a report, there’s numerous people from different pods and RTS’s, and work with Michael Taft, which might be within the room who know me already and know that stillness is a challenge for me. But, today it was really interesting, because I used to be in a position to just know that my body knows the right way to do stillness, and that I’m not doing anything, and so I could take away the doership of numerous the entire meditation, and just be in it. Then tremendous lightness got here in with the breath, after which later my body got super hot, and I used to be, like, just be the hearth, don’t fight it, just let it’s what it’s. Then it was, like, oh, I could feel very grateful for it, versus, oh, my God, I’m so hot. Just being what I used to be being was a shift for me, to only let go of the doer of it, and just be in it, and never make anything occur, or not make it occur. So, that was really cool.

Michael: That seems really cool. What made the difference this time, versus all the opposite times?

Questioner 2:  I could think it was just being within the room, obviously, is a unique thing than once I’m at home, and I feel also coming in really open-hearted with a ton of gratitude in the primary place, so just super joyful to be here with everybody. I’m so lucky, and coming in feeling that way already gives me loads more spaciousness for anything that arises,

Michael: Right, so far more ease within the gratitude.

Questioner 2: I’m not coming in scuffling with things, although, obviously the stillness edge continues to be an edge, but it surely felt like, oh, no. After which, I could really use the weather, after I’d been through fire and air, all of the natural adjustments that were happening within the water, in my body, then I could do the Mount Meru, and just sit like a mountain. So, it was like just being within the things that were arising and letting them arise. 

Michael: It’s so cool. Stillness is de facto relaxed, right? It doesn’t take any doing, it’s just relaxed, excellent, thanks for sharing.

Questioner 3:  Hi, I used to be pretty uncomfortable tonight physically, and my posture was off. I noticed what I believed was a kriya years ago, since it’s the identical type of thing, in my left shoulder. Now, I’m wondering if perhaps I don’t have the proper definition of a kriya, and perhaps that is just embodied resistance, or perhaps that’s all the identical thing.

Michael:  Possibly it’s all the identical thing.

Questioner 3:  In fact, and perhaps it doesn’t matter but I used to be just interested by for those who’ve seen that before. If people get confused. I used to be attempting to suppress it at times and I used to be much deeper in my meditation than it was years ago once I was having that, once I just, like, all these things’s happening, and my body hurts, blah, blah, blah. Do I let it go, or is that this resistance that I needs to be just holding tight? I’m undecided what to do with it.

Michael: Yeah, basically, what it says on the cardboard is, for those who’re having a kriya, just don’t worry about it, right? Don’t attempt to do anything with it, or not do anything with it. Just so long as it’s not disrupting the room, just sit there and have your kriya, an involuntary motion. When you’re having a kriya where, which I’ve seen before, you’re falling on the people around you and stuff, then, don’t try this. But, for those who’re just type of having some weird release, it’s high-quality. 

What’s it? That may be a query that there are numerous different models for. Traditionally, it will be energy working through a blockage, but there’s one other way of it, where it’s just tension release. Sometimes kriyas might be really interesting, or they’re really intense, they usually’re type of weird. So you’ll be able to get kind of kinkily fascinated, and that never goes anywhere good, and it’s just useless meditation at that time. Or attempting to help it work through, no: just let it do its thing.

Questioner 3:  Thanks.

Questioner 4:   I had slightly little bit of a report query. Where do the thoughts come from?

Michael: Where do they arrive from, in your experience?

Questioner 4:  Well, sometimes they arrive from “who knows”, but other times they arrive from I feel like “whatever.”

Michael: You’ve got a degree. [laughter]

Questioner 4: I type of desired to have you ever riff on that slightly bit, because I actually have the experience of thoughts just I do not know where they got here from. But, I also was meditating with my eyes open and saw something on the wall that triggered a thought, it looked like a pterodactyl after which I used to be eager about a pterodactyl.

Michael: That’s an idea of the causation of the thought, but I mean where is it coming from? The placement, not what incites it.

Questioner 4: Okay. 

Michael: But even the causal one you’re pointing towards is fake also. When you look closely, that’s a back-formation. You made the decision that’s what caused it after it happened. The more you look, the more, even the whatever is like whatever…to be clear.

Questioner 4: So that you’re saying whatever and nowhere are the identical. 

Michael: I’m saying that each of them are empty.  They’re the identical in that respect, and so, the purpose is, that we spend an amazing period of time deeply engaged with something that has no inherent existence in any respect and is sort of a dream within the sense that the minute you let it go it’s just [zzpz].

Questioner 4:  Cool, yeah, thanks.

Michael: I feel we got a matter way back there.

Questioner 5: Only a little bit of a report. I just desired to acknowledge that this is definitely the primary time we’re sitting in the identical room, which is wonderful. There was just a lot awakeness and energy at the top. I don’t know what it was to do with, since it’s quarter to 4 within the morning in London, so perhaps it’s that. Anyway, just the depth of it felt like I’d been sitting on retreat for per week, and it was just pure shimmering energy on this utter groundlessness, infinite groundlessness, just numerous awakeness. So, I just desired to acknowledge that. Do you think that it’s something to do with the neurotransmitters at 4 within the morning?

Michael: [laughter] Thanks for sharing, it’s so great to have you ever here.

Questioner 6:  Hi, I actually have a matter. How will we align our actions with experience quite than our thoughts, since it seems like experience is healthier done with inaction than motion, does that make sense?

Michael: Not the last part, say the last part again.

Questioner 6:  It seems like experiencing something, to me I can try this higher by not acting.

Michael: Yeah, okay, but still, there you might be, you’re going to get hungry. What are you going to do then? You’re going to must go to the toilet, you’re going to do this through inaction?  I mean, eventually, you’re going to do stuff. You’re going to get hungry, you’re going to go to the toilet, you’re going to rise up and go to the opposite room, you’re going to exit. 

Way back there have been whole groups of wandering mendicants who would take vows to never do anything. We’re never going to take an motion–their reasoning was that that can cause karma. Karma literally means motion, so for those who take an motion, it causes karma. So, logically, just stop doing anything. But, in fact, as I said, eventually you do take a drink of water, you’re respiratory, and you then’re scratching at yourself, after which perhaps you’ve gotten to go to the toilet. 

You’re at all times doing something, so it’s not the motion or the inaction, because that’s high-quality. It’s about seeing very clearly that motion is just happening. We could do the identical thing we just did, it’s just slightly harder, but pick this up, now set it down, now pick it up, now set, and you simply notice, nothing’s doing that. There’s an experience of motion just happening and when it’s like that, in the standard way of talking about it, there’s zero karma, since it’s an empty motion. So, it’s not about motion or not motion, it’s about who’s doing it. 

We will have the identical stance towards motion as we’ve towards passive receptivity. Try it out. It’s just slightly harder. It’s easiest to note this emptiness or spaciousness, spacious, wide awakeness, after we’re still, at first.  This is sweet news for those of us who can’t stay still. Eventually, you progress slightly bit, and you’ll be able to still notice it, and you then move loads, and you’ll be able to still notice it. It just takes getting used to noticing it. Anyway, that’s my experience.

Questioner 6:  Yeah, thanks. Simply to follow up, I’m all about performing some motion, that’s good, but how do I try this in alignment with the experience?

Michael: By not asking that query. That’s the mental stuff coming in and attempting to figure it out. Without engaging that, it’ll already be aligned. There’s no other way it could possibly be. I’m not suggesting that subsequently each time you murder anyone it’s in alignment with it. It doesn’t mean it’s perfect, but it surely does mean it’s a part of the moment. We still must be ethical and moral, but I might say that by letting go of attempting to determine what to do, and just noticing that every moment is already bringing up doing, it’s already in alignment.

Questioner 6:  Okay, thanks.

Michael: Yeah, last query or report.

Questioner 7: Once we were in search of what’s experiencing stuff, I used to be in search of what’s experiencing a certain thought. Then I had slightly arrow from slightly point here that was experiencing that. Then I used to be like, what’s experiencing that arrow? Then, there was one other arrow, and it wasn’t a solution in any respect, it was like a random vector coming type of from my face area. I kept on being like, but what’s doing that one after which the entire thing, I’m not exactly sure what it was, but the entire thing began to spin like this and made a large vortex here. Then it kept on shooting laser beams out that were experiencing it after which it just and it type of crescendoed up so it was like pretty crazy after which the entire thing popped away. Then it was really quiet. 

Michael: Then it just pops, in order that’s the Hall of Mirrors thing. I’m over here the thing, but what’s that, I’ll look from over here, after which it’s like, well wait a minute, well, what’s that? And it turns into an infinite regress, right? Like, oh, shit, it’ll just keep doing that.  But you’re not a machine, and so it doesn’t infinite regress. There’s intelligence, and so it just suddenly goes, wait a minute, it’s not looking from anywhere. 

Questioner 7: Then it was super quiet for the remainder of the sit. My query was going long together with his theme about aligning actions, and never not letting thoughts get in there. How do you try this? I do know people ask this query principally each class, but I’m type of doing that. I’m very present in most of my life, to the purpose that I’m probably not ruminating loads. I just realized yesterday that I forgot to make any plans for Christmas in anyway, because I just was identical to on November twenty seventh it wasn’t time for Christmas yet. 

Michael: Oh, you mean for those who don’t ruminate loads you get really bad at planning far ahead?

Questioner 7:  That’s what I’m saying.

Michael:  Nobody has ever accused me of that, ever [laughter] You simply must be slightly more planny about it.

Questioner 7:  [laughter] Thanks.

Michael: No, thanks. I’m serious. [laughter]

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