The Feeling Is Just a Feeling
El Sentimiento Es Solo un Sentimiento
A student describes a deepening ease in the body and a growing inability to turn difficult emotions into something tragic.
The Feeling Is Just a Feeling
A student describes a deepening ease in the body and a growing inability to turn difficult emotions into something tragic.
I would like to describe my body sensation experience. During the meditation earlier, there was a very strong feeling of gravity. It was very nice. My legs, my feet, everything tingling. It all feels healthy and peaceful. I feel more and more open, with less and less resistance to what's happening, whatever stories come up, whatever people I come across. Even people I don't like. I still don't feel too much emotion around the idea of disliking somebody. It feels smooth. I feel even more drawn to these meetings and really enjoying more and more of life, less complaining. Everything goes so well.
Beautiful. Lovely.
Letting it storm through
I feel it like a stomachache. Whatever thought or whatever emotion arises, it's just like a stomachache. You just feel it through and don't push it away. It goes. If it doesn't, then it just lasts as long as it lasts. And at the most painful point of this stomachache, what I could see is that it's just a feeling, and the feeling is just a feeling. It doesn't matter how much I want to make it into something tragic. It's still a feeling, and I've lost the ability to make it into something tragic.
You lost the ability. That's so good.
Yes. It's not a realization, but it's an experience.
Well, it's a consequence of a realization.
I don't feel like I realized anything.
It doesn't matter.
I heard the message a long time ago. I understood it mentally. I don't need to realize anything.
Sounds good.
The body alive
My body is still tingling all over. It's electrifying. The whole body is electrifying. I'm speaking to you and it's electrifying. It's so tingling.
When you started sharing, I was feeling this really lovely warmth, a very subtle, joyful tingling warmth.
Yes, that's how I feel.
So beautiful. I'm so happy.
You are so inspiring. One thing you told me to do was just keep noticing. The other thing you pointed to was to let the thoughts storm through you. I really embraced that. I took your pointing as much as I could. Anything you think is tragic or suffering, just be there with the suffering and let it open. I think it works for me.
That's beautiful. I'm so happy. It's so felt. I can feel it so clearly. It's real.
I have no doubt. And no questions.
It's so beautiful. Thank you for sharing. It's such a pleasure.