Holding On to Good Experiences
Aferrarse a las buenas experiencias
A question about whether the open, loving energy one feels in practice is "it," or just another experience to which one becomes attached.
Holding On to Good Experiences
A question about whether the open, loving energy one feels in practice is "it," or just another experience to which one becomes attached.
I feel the same way, that space is very open and there's a lot of love. And then something comes and thinks it has to do something with it. Stress wants to hold it, and sometimes I ask myself if it's just a good energy that I feel, and in the end it's not it. Sometimes I feel like I feel what is pointed to, and then I'm not sure. Maybe it's also just an experience that I'm holding on to. Do you know what I mean?
I think so. I think I know what you're talking about.
Experiences as confirmation along the way
It's common that at first in the journey home, there are kinds of experiences we have, and you'll notice them because there are certain states, feelings, emotions, movements in the body. In a sense, these are confirmations or validations of the direction in which the movement is happening. There is a resonance. But then it's very common to interpret those experiences as the arrival at something, and so we get a little attached. That's very normal. It's just part of the process.
The fear underneath the attachment
It has to do with a bit of fear, worry, or anxiety. First of all, it feels good, so we want more. But there's also a worry that something is lost, or that something's not okay with me in whatever state I'm in now, without feeling that certain recognizable flavor of some feeling or energy.
What we're looking for is in all experiences
In a sense, you could see this as something where it takes time to start recognizing that what we're actually looking for is in all experiences. It's even in the pain. It's even in the stormy mind. It usually takes a bit of time, though for some people it happens suddenly, and that's not always fun.