Basic meditation is to notice and allow what’s here – in the content of our experience – as it is.
We notice and allow whatever is here whether it’s sensations, sounds, sights, and so on.
This also and especially applies to noticing and allowing any resistance, discomfort, and any experience we tend to habitually reject.
TRYING AND FAILING
At first, this may seem like something we intentionally do, and that’s not wrong. We may intentionally notice what’s here and seek to allow it as it is.
And we’ll inevitably fail. We’ll notice we are not always noticing what’s here because we get caught up in stories. We cannot intentionally notice everything in our field of experience. And we sometimes struggle with allowing what’s here as it is and instead go into resistance and distractions.
All this is normal. It’s what humans do. It’s what the human mind does. It gets distracted. It struggles with its own content.
NOTICE IT’S ALREADY NOTICED AND ALLOWED
After a while of this trying and partial failing, we may notice that what’s here is already noticed and allowed.
Consciousness already notices what’s here before it’s reflected in any intentional and conscious noticing.
And what’s here is already allowed even before any intentional allowing. It is already allowed – by mind, life, and existence.
When we rest in this noticing, we can more consciously align with the noticing and allowing inherent in what we are, and we can allow the noticing to work on us and do its magic with us.
In our nature, there is no failing in basic meditation. Our nature inherently notices and allows.
A FEW MORE THINGS WE MAY NOTICE
This inherent noticing and allowing even allows apparent distraction and resistance.
This inherent noticing and allowing is our nature and, over time, we get familiar with it as our nature.
There is a kind of center of gravity for what we take ourselves to be, and this may gradually shift. (It shifts from something particular within the content of experience to what’s capacity for all of it and what it all happens within and as.)
Any sense of being anything within content of experience is part of what’s noticed and allowed and not what we must fundamentally are.
QUOTE FROM PREVIOUS POST
We can notice that these, and all our experiences, are already noticed and allowed and more consciously align ourselves with this primal noticing and allowing. They are already noticed by consciousness before that’s reflected in an intentional noticing. And they are already allowed – by mind, space, and life – even before any intentional allowing. This noticing and allowing is built into our nature. We cannot avoid it.
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This inherent noticing and allowing even allows – and forms itself into – apparent distraction and resistance. That’s part of what we notice is already noticed and allowed.
DRAFT
Basic meditation is to notice and allow what’s here – in the content of our experience – as it is.
We notice and allow whatever is here whether it’s sensations, sounds, sights, and so on.
This also and especially applies to noticing and allowing any resistance, discomfort, and any experience we tend to habitually reject.
TRYING AND FAILING
At first, this may seem like something we intentionally do, and that’s not wrong. We may intentionally notice what’s here and seek to allow it as it is.
And we’ll inevitably fail. We’ll notice we are not always noticing what’s here because we get caught up in stories. We cannot intentionally notice everything in our field of experience. And we sometimes struggle with allowing what’s here as it is, and instead go into the resistance and distractions from it.
All this is normal. It’s what humans do. It’s what the human mind does. It gets distracted. It struggles with its own content.
NOTICE IT’S ALREADY NOTICED AND ALLOWED
After a while of this trying and partial failing, we may notice that what’s here is already noticed and allowed.
Consciousness already notices what’s here before it’s reflected in any intentional and conscious noticing. It’s inherent in consciousness.
And what’s here is already allowed even before any intentional allowing. It’s here so it is already allowed – by mind, space, and life.
When we notice this, we can keep noticing it. We can notice that what’s here is already noticed and allowed. We notice the primal noticing and allowing that’s inherent in what we are. And that allows us to more consciously align with it and transform within this noticing.
Here, there is no failing. Our nature inherently notices and allows, and we just need to notice that.
A FEW MORE THINGS WE MAY NOTICE
This inherent noticing and allowing even allows apparent distraction and resistance. That’s part of what we notice is already noticed and allowed.
We may also notice that this is our nature and get familiar with this as our nature. The center of gravity of what we take ourselves to be may gradually shift from something particular within the content of experience to what’s capacity for all of it and what it all happens within and as.
We may notice that any sense of being anything stable within content of experience is part of what’s allowed and noticed and not what we must fundamentally are.