The Beauty in What Is
La belleza en lo que es
This meditation invites you to look at your experience with childlike curiosity and discover that everything already here—thoughts, sensations, even resistance—is beautiful.
The Beauty in What Is
Noticing the impulse to change
When meditating, or really in any endeavor of spiritual work, we don't really want to change anything.
It's rather noticing.
And we may notice the movement of wanting to change things,
and that can get, in a sense, hijacked by the spiritual pursuit.
It can then make the resistance honorable,
pursuing spiritual states, altered consciousness states.
If things are moving too fast and uncomfortable,
the mind is very active,
then it is a bit helpful to learn ways to calm that down.
Noticing the breath, observing thoughts.
Thoughts as sacred
What can be seen now is that thoughts are as sacred as the breath,
made of the same substance.
The exploration then becomes playful.
A curious child discovering, exploring the mystery of this moment.
When the mystery is tamed,
we know we have believed something that isn't real.
There is only unbound mystery.
And if we are here, we have tasted this.
Letting the mind dance
Let the mind dance.
Nothing of what the mind does and says is real.
Mind is just attempting to grasp the infinite,
attempting to make sense of the mystery,
attempting to make separate and solid that which is not forever graspable.
What you're looking for is already here.
It is this.
This beingness, this aliveness.
It's not hidden.
It cannot grow or become.
Not develop.
Trust that.
It is veiled only by our beliefs.
Fundamental belief in time and space, a beautiful construct of the mind.
The beautiful map of time and space.
Exploring who you are
You contemplate who you are.
All you can know are your thoughts, memories.
Notice what is beautiful right now.
Explore your reality, curious as a child.
You may notice the tendency to veil that beauty, make the mystery known.
You may find your thoughts to be beautiful,
the miracle of thought, the miracle of emotions.
The beauty of the tingling in the hands,
unfiltered, untamed,
raw direct perception,
the dance of sensations.
The raw, direct aliveness of sound, unfiltered.
Looking for what is not beautiful
You find it easy to notice beauty.
Look for what is not beautiful.
You see more than your thoughts about it, the judgment.
Explore that distinction between what is beautiful and what is not, right now.
It will just mirror attachment and resistance, where there is a no to life.
Look at that attachment, resistance, and notice something.
Can you see the beauty in that?
The wonderful play of life, choosing this, all of it.
Everything is welcome
Everything is welcome.
If you notice resistance, struggle,
then it is fully welcome, fully chosen.
No need for it to stop.
Freedom embraces the resistance.
We don't embrace the struggle.
It is not for you to embrace.
It is already embraced.