Savoring What Is
Saborear Lo Que Es
A gentle invitation to stop pulling away from your experience and instead move closer, discovering that everything happening right now can be fully savored.
Savoring What Is
Seeing more clearly
In meditation, we intend to see more clearly,
know more directly.
This is not a change into doing something we weren't able to do.
It's an undoing.
The undoing of pulling away from reality,
pulling away from sensation,
the undoing of attaching to beliefs, ideas.
All of this always happens now.
The pull of separation
The only possible change is more deeply into this,
and so we can notice the ideas we attach to and see the falseness.
We can see that which we pull into this sense of a separate person,
this pulling back into a person.
This mix of thoughts and images and sensations spiraling around the area of the body and the head,
pulling out into the so-called world,
grasping into those and pushing the rest away.
Notice this subtle, constant magnetic pull
to push part of experience out into the outside.
You pull a sense of me here on the inside.
This enormous effort,
so habitual,
so addictive.
Letting the noticing happen
The good thing is that all the seeing is needed.
Noticing. Just let the noticing happen, and any shift or change will happen on its own.
As you notice the effort, letting go happens,
as you notice the unnecessary.
If there's anything happening,
if it's being rejected or where there is a no to it,
it could be sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories.
Future.
There is likely something being rejected.
Aspects of experience where there is a no instead of openness.
Fighting this experience, the energy of changing it.
See if you can open that a bit.
Tasting, savoring
The direction is of tasting, savoring.
So if there are thoughts that are troubling, or there's confusion,
difficult emotions,
discomfort in sensations,
whatever it is you notice,
an attempt to change it in the direct experience:
With your intention or attention or direction, move into intimacy,
to tasting, savoring that experience.
Full immersion into those thoughts, into those sensations or emotions.
No need to pull away.
Surf those waves intimately.
Discover their taste.
Learn to appreciate those flavors.
Whatever is happening, it can be savored.
Appreciating the flavor of frustration,
the flavor of tensions in the body,
the flavor of tricky or busy thoughts,
the flavor of fears, worries.
Everything can be savored
This whole conundrum of identification and separation
is just the consequence, the side effect of saying no to these experiences,
the pulling away into thought, into ideas.
But by savoring everything,
the need to identify goes away.
And everything can be savored.
It is divine creation.
Every taste can be acquired.