Coming Back to the Present
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A student shares how a regular meditation practice has begun to dissolve a long-held self-image of resistance, and the teacher offers a gentle caution about the mind's tendency to postpone readiness.
Coming Back to the Present
A student shares how a regular meditation practice has begun to dissolve a long-held self-image of resistance, and the teacher offers a gentle caution about the mind's tendency to postpone readiness.
Exactly. And then meanwhile, come to the meditation. Just do your work, do what you need to do. You might be more ready than you think, because what you're saying can also be a way of saying, "No way am I going there."
I see that. I tend to obsess a little, and then I have to say, "No, no, come back, come back." But I have been meditating pretty regularly since we spoke a few weeks ago, and that really has been good.
That's great.
The self-image dissolves
I don't feel hardly any resistance, actually. I thought I had a lot, but I don't see much now. It's funny. I had this whole image built of myself, and it turns out it was just another relationship I was constructing, a relationship with myself. Our conversation was so good because it was so natural: just one step after the other, coming back to the present. That's what I got. Just coming back to the present.
I don't always notice when I've drifted. But it's easier and clearer now. I would say over the last three years or so it's gotten better. A red flag goes up, and I can't stop the conditioning, but I can see it.
Seeing without fixing
Yes. It's wanting to fix it, wanting to solve it, find the solution.
Well, it's a pleasure as always. Thank you for joining. Take care.
You too. Have a lovely night.