Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft
Emotions are incredibly odd things. So often we take them as given. We see them not only as “the best way it’s,’ but whilst “the best way it’s going to be for a very long time.” It’s odd, because emotions are incredibly ephemeral and transient; never the identical from moment to moment. They simply trick us into considering they’ll be the best way they’re without delay endlessly, though we’ve seen the alternative each day of our lives.
Sometimes in meditation practice there will be an over-emphasis on the thought of just “being with things as they’re.” We’re encouraged to note “what’s” with total acceptance, not trying to alter it, control it, or judge it in any way. And while this is typically good advice, there are a couple of ways it’s actually off, and may cause us to miss real opportunities in our practice.
A method it’s off is to think that it’s possible to see things “as they are surely,” as if there may be some type of neutral, objective perception that’s possible. But it surely’s not. There is no such thing as a such neutral perception. We’re at all times taking a stance towards what we’re observing, whether we know it or not. Denying or ignoring this just precludes the opportunity of investigating that stance, which could possibly be very powerfully awakening.
A second way the thought of “just being with” things as they arise is that we have now an amazing capability to alter and cultivate our feeling states. Emotions, particularly, aren’t just “given,” but are states that we’re creating inside our experience. Now we have a say in how we feel. And so an enormously necessary a part of meditation practice is to learn to purposefully generate positive emotional states.
On this meditation, after contacting nondual awareness through noticing the emptiness of thought and feeling, we generate a really positive state of “Buddha love” (together with many other positive emotions) and take the stance of radiating these emotional qualities in all directions. This works because once we get in contact with the ephemerality and nebulosity of the ego, it becomes easy to cultivate positive latest ego states.
We learn that emotions are only something that’s happening to us, or that may be a direct response to the things that the world is doing to us. As an alternative, emotions are a positive stance we will take towards nondual engagement with every part. Enjoy.
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