Post by Reefs on Jun 7, 2013 8:08:15 GMT -8
True Silence (4)
A: Instead of closing in on a narrow focus, I found my own way (of meditating) was just to be present, which was to become totally open. This is more like listening than focusing.
In that listening, I discovered a very natural state, a state that is actually the only state that isn't contrived. From that state that is like listening, I started to see that every effort to contrive created another state. As soon as I made an effort, a state would be manufactured out of thin air. I could manufacture beautiful states, terrible states, concentrated states, and all sorts of states; but there was only one state that was totally natural and absolutely effortless. In that state, I found access to the deepest Self, which is freedom.
By its very nature, this state has to be something that is effortless. It has to be something that does not require maintenance. A quiet mind that is arrived at by concentration ends up being a dull mind, not a free mind. It may feel quiet and it may feel good because it's quiet, but it's not a free mind, and in your being you don't feel free either.
A: Instead of closing in on a narrow focus, I found my own way (of meditating) was just to be present, which was to become totally open. This is more like listening than focusing.
In that listening, I discovered a very natural state, a state that is actually the only state that isn't contrived. From that state that is like listening, I started to see that every effort to contrive created another state. As soon as I made an effort, a state would be manufactured out of thin air. I could manufacture beautiful states, terrible states, concentrated states, and all sorts of states; but there was only one state that was totally natural and absolutely effortless. In that state, I found access to the deepest Self, which is freedom.
By its very nature, this state has to be something that is effortless. It has to be something that does not require maintenance. A quiet mind that is arrived at by concentration ends up being a dull mind, not a free mind. It may feel quiet and it may feel good because it's quiet, but it's not a free mind, and in your being you don't feel free either.