It can seem that experience is anything but resting. There is movement. Seeking. Tension. Contraction. Suffering. Identification.
And yet, when I look, I see that what’s really here is different. I find that images, words and sensations already are resting. It’s only the velcro that makes it appear differently.
It’s only when sensations seem “stuck” on images and words that it appears that what’s here is not resting.
When the velcro softens or falls away, what’s here – these images, words, and sensations – are revealed as resting, and already resting.
With velcro, they may appear as anything but, and it’s easy to get caught in the tension, struggle, seeking, or pushing and pulling. (The appearance of which is created by the velcro.) Without, it’s all revealed as already resting. Even the words, images, and sensations making up the apparent struggle, tension, pushing and pulling, and suffering are already resting.
That makes it much easier to rest with it.
As with similar things, it’s about noticing what’s already here, which makes it easier to align with it more consciously.
For instance, I notice a sense of pushing or seeking in the throat and forehead. I rest with the sensation. Is that sensation pushing? Is it seeking? I notice an image of the throat and forehead. Is that image pushing? Is it seeking? I look at the word “pushing”. Is that word pushing? I look at the word “seeking”. Is that word seeking? And so on, examining whatever makes up the experience of pushing or seeking, one simple thing at a time.
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Initial draft….
It can seem that experience is anything but resting. There is movement. Seeking. Tension. Contraction. Suffering. Identification.
And yet, when I look, I see that what’s really here is different. I find that images, words and sensations already are resting. It’s only the velcro that makes it appear differently.
When the velcro softens or falls away, what’s here – these images, words, and sensations – are revealed as already resting.
With velcro, they may appear anything but resting, and it’s easy to get caught in the tension, struggle, seeking, or pushing and pulling. (The appearance of which is created by the velcro.) Without, it’s all revealed as already resting. Even the words, images, and sensations making up the apparent struggle, tension, pushing and pulling, and suffering are already resting.
That makes it much easier to rest with it.
As with similar things, it’s about noticing what’s already here, which makes it easier to align with it more consciously.
For instance, I notice a sense of pushing or seeking in the throat and forehead. I rest with the sensation. Is that sensation pushing? Is it seeking? I notice an image of the throat and forehead. Is that image pushing? Is it seeking? I look at the word “pushing”. Is that word pushing? I look at the word “seeking”. Is that word seeking? And so on, examining whatever makes up the experience of pushing or seeking, one simple thing at a time.
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Initial notes…..
Images, words, sensations etc., already resting
May seem just the opposite at first, but when look, see that any experience a already resting (Including that which makes up the appearance of struggle, tension, striving)
Notice as I rest with it….. Look at what makes up what initially seems like struggle, tension, striving.
When I rest with what’s here – images, words, sounds, taste, sensations – I notice they are already resting.