Sitting quietly in meditation is the best research lab to observe the minds behaviour when it isn’t being interrupted, called to order. Sitting quietly, we inquire into our experience: can we exit our mental multiplex cinema at will? Or do you find yourself moving from one inner movie to another, to another, a triple feature of memories and fantasies of last year, next year, the ups and downs of love and work and family recast in a seemingly endless tape loop? Is this really freely chosen or a chained-to-the-theater-seat compulsive habit? Meditation practice is based on a simple commitment— the commitment to being fully present in mind and body.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
We have the impression that the busier we are, the faster we should go and so we rush about. But if we look closely at “speeding to achieve more,” often we achieve less and sometimes things fall by the wayside or apart. We are limited by our physical, mental and emotional energy and there can be space and time constraints. Do we think that we are above these limits and constraints and can run around, accumulating projects and activities regardless? Or do we recognize and appreciate these limits and constraints and instead of fighting or hoping to transcend them, creatively engage with them? The basis for this creative engagement could be this phrase “the busier I am, the slower I should go.”
Life can only find you if you are paying real attention to something other than your own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn’t based on triumphing over it or complaining about it
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