The Buddha said, “O Nobly Born, remember the pure open sky of your own true nature. Return to it. Trust it. It is home.”
Our default habitual tendency is to notice things in space
rather than the space in between things. Walking into a room, it is the amount
of stuff occupying the room impresses but not the empty space itself containing
all stuff. Unoccupied space in uninteresting and wasted, so put an object there
to beautify. By shifting focus from objects arising to beyond object- the field
of awareness; from foreground to the background shifts observing from egoic
self and accumulations to the open space of presence.
Tunnel vision of observing self, tightens the mind causes
tension following a thought, analyzing ideas, working on emotions feelings and
defilements. Instead, letting go to open vast awareness mind stabilizes easily
and still, pleasant effortless concentration arises. In vast openness the rich
wholeness of manifestation and capacity to receive comes together. But in
narrow view via filters of separate self, come attachment, conflict confusion
unskillful actions and consequences.
Practice relaxed sitting with senses wide open, shift
awareness from one pointed witnessing of thoughts and feelings and sensations
to open boundless space of experiencing not picking or choosing to focus, but
maintaining an evenness of attention on whatever arises in the space of
awareness. Presence becomes vast sky-like, barrier of inside outside dissolves,
body melting into heaps of sensations, a conduit of awareness passage for
sensations, thoughts feeling images and breath waving through. Notice, The observer
merges into the vast space just as all other phenomenon, there is none looking
at the open spacious awareness but open space itself. Every passing moment note
changing nature of mind release habitual entanglement in ordinary sense of self
dissolves and identification becomes selfless and free.
The egoic self, personal I -focus on all that is arising,
limits the view of the world amplifies painful narratives and suffering,
perpetuates all neurotic thoughts and memories. Whereas, widening the focus into the vast sky like
spaciousness around and beyond all thoughts, images, feelings that pass through
without conflict struggle, or harm and eventually dissipate in open presence. In
this sense of expansiveness there is relief, smooth relaxed breathing, and with
negligible or no impact of unskillful actions and tendencies. Open awareness is
immediate and ever present, being here is liberating and it becomes the
blissful resting place.
It's a
transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up
space. -Pema Chodron
🙏 May I be the guiding light
for all those on the path to realize their true nature.
Thankyou!!
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