Meditation Part 2

For many meditation ends up being a practice to learn how to pause.


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I was just going to leave the post blank... but instead lets work this with "thought" to "remove thought" to get to a place of pause.

Imagine your mind as a still pond... the thoughts are as ripples.

For many: Meditation is a path of learning how to calm the mind, to let go of thought.

How do you do this?

You just let go. It's the letting go that takes seekers years to learn how to release...

So behind the letting go you have to examine why a person grasps on to thinking so hard...

Typically, the root reason for thinking too much is: something bothers you in life.

When being bothered by something, your mind constantly thinks about how to resolve the "issues"... To a Taoist all issues, are merely illusions of "red dust", of meaningless transient material aspects of life and attachments...

A Taoist instead learns acceptance... once acceptance is embraced, the reasons for spinning constantly in thought, just peel away, leaving one in the still pond. This is the Taoist path. Once embracing this, it's possible to drop into a meditative state without thought or hassle instantly and maintain it indefinitely. In this practice Meditation isn't a separate aspect of your life, you just naturally flow into a meditative state of mind. Once in this state, you can then direct yourself how you wish... However, on average, a Taoist , just maintains a state of awareness to surf and enjoy the wonder as it comes up and forth out of the froth in the surf of living.

So one form of Meditation could be said to be "letting go"... That's the yang path.

This means taking the path of yin: of "embracing acceptance" will yield the same results in your meditation practice.

So if you have problems letting go, flip it around, to try playing around with acceptance instead.

Peace