Let's move closer to who we are through feeling, hearing and seeing. Start by feeling your sensations and allow those sensations to be. Do nothing but feel your bodily sensations no matter what they are.
When lost in feeling, there is no thought, there is no "I".
Allow for sensations to move in and through.
Hear the sounds around you and allow them to be. Do nothing but listen to those sounds. Don't think about the sounds, just listen.
Keep your attention on sights and allow them to move through and through. When seeing intently, there is no thought, there is no "I".
Whatever arises in your awareness, just notice it, allow it to be, don't think about it.
Throughout this practice, notice that your attention moves back and forth from thinking to awareness of feelings, sights, or sounds. Practice bringing your attention back to these things and away from thinking as often as possible. Make this your spiritual practice.
Through this practice you will come to see who you really are.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Become one with your experience
It seems that most spiritual writers will eventully talk about one important practice as a way of directing you towards the oneness of things. This practice is easy and helps spiritual aspirants to get in touch with oneness.
The practice involves firstly, being in touch with ones perceptual processes. Hearing is one of our perceptual processes that helps with this experiencing. To do this, start by just listening to sounds. Close your eyes and pay close attention to the sounds around you.
Now, drop the thought, feeling or sense that you are doing the listening. Let that sense of yourself as the one who is doing the listening fade into the background. Notice now that all there is is just sounds. When that sense of you is let go of, all that remains is the experience of sound. All that there really is is the experience of anything, yet the illusion comes in when we think we are the ones who are doing the listening. As if, I am listening. The wording of this statement gives extra reinforcement to the idea that there is a listener here doing something called listening. When, in fact, there is only listening taking place.
When you merge with any sound, sight, touch, taste, smell, or thought, and you drop the sense of I that feels it is doing the perceiving, all you're left with is the experience of that perception.
Most spiritual writers want you to understand this. They want you to understand that there is no "I" that is doing the perceiving, and that only the experiencing exists.
Where does this sense of "I" stem from? It appears as a result of the fact that one experience is happening after the other. The constant flow of one experience after the other supports the illusion that there must be someone here that is doing the perceiving. Also, the language we use to describe our experiences provide the conditioning and strengthening of this illusion.
Why all this talk about the importance of understanding that there is no "I" or "me" there that does all the perceiving? Because, it is exactly this illusion of these self statements and beliefs that is the cause of all our suffering.
When you can see through the illusion of the "I" you will end the suffering that is associated with the belief that there is someone here in the head that is doing all this experiencing.
The practice involves firstly, being in touch with ones perceptual processes. Hearing is one of our perceptual processes that helps with this experiencing. To do this, start by just listening to sounds. Close your eyes and pay close attention to the sounds around you.
Now, drop the thought, feeling or sense that you are doing the listening. Let that sense of yourself as the one who is doing the listening fade into the background. Notice now that all there is is just sounds. When that sense of you is let go of, all that remains is the experience of sound. All that there really is is the experience of anything, yet the illusion comes in when we think we are the ones who are doing the listening. As if, I am listening. The wording of this statement gives extra reinforcement to the idea that there is a listener here doing something called listening. When, in fact, there is only listening taking place.
When you merge with any sound, sight, touch, taste, smell, or thought, and you drop the sense of I that feels it is doing the perceiving, all you're left with is the experience of that perception.
Most spiritual writers want you to understand this. They want you to understand that there is no "I" that is doing the perceiving, and that only the experiencing exists.
Where does this sense of "I" stem from? It appears as a result of the fact that one experience is happening after the other. The constant flow of one experience after the other supports the illusion that there must be someone here that is doing the perceiving. Also, the language we use to describe our experiences provide the conditioning and strengthening of this illusion.
Why all this talk about the importance of understanding that there is no "I" or "me" there that does all the perceiving? Because, it is exactly this illusion of these self statements and beliefs that is the cause of all our suffering.
When you can see through the illusion of the "I" you will end the suffering that is associated with the belief that there is someone here in the head that is doing all this experiencing.
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