Looking for What We're Looking For
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A quiet invitation to notice the difference between the mind's restless wanting and the deeper peace already present in being.
Looking for What We're Looking For
To meditate is to look for what we're looking for.
Meditation is only possible because what we're looking for is already here.
What is in the way: the illusions, the attachments, the misinterpretations.
This is what meditation can do. Clarify.
Sitting with wanting
To sit and see what I'm wanting.
Wanting can only arrive tomorrow, and tomorrow can never come.
Or what I'm wanting can only come in the next moment.
The next moment can never come.
And so there are two types of wants.
The wanting of our mind, our psychology.
And the deep, true wanting of what we are.
What we are wants to simply be what it is, to be what is.
Which is being,
which is free,
which is knowing,
and which is at peace.
This is already here.
It is the nature of reality.
The image in the mind
And the mind, envisioned by the body, imagines something other than beingness.
Imagines with a past and a future in time.
And that image is made into the reality of what we are.
The nature of the image in the mind is restlessness.
Always something missing,
always something not here.
And the tension in meditation, the struggle and tension in life, is that we want to believe we are this mental image and have peace at the same time.