Basic meditation is to notice and allow what’s here in the field of experience.
FAILING IN BASIC MEDITATION
I try to notice and allow what’s here.
I notice I am unable to do it through intention or effort. At best, it’s a kind of approximation. My attention gets distracted, and I am unable to consciously allow every experience without sometimes go into struggle, avoidance, or reactivity.
As some meditation instructors will point out, that’s the point of that practice. We are meant to fail. Our human self cannot do it. Failure is built into it.
And through that failure, we may find another way.
NOTICING WHAT’S ALREADY HERE
We may notice that what’s here in our field of experience is already noticed and allowed.
It’s already noticed by consciousness even before it’s consciously noticed and reflected in thought. It happens within and as consciousness, so is inherently noticed.
It’s also already allowed – by space, mind, life, and existence. Whatever is here is already allowed. Putting effort into allowing is like trying to artificially create something that’s already here.
We can then rest in noticing that what’s here is already noticed and allowed. That’s much more simple. It’s closer to reality. It’s a noticing of what’s here and nothing needs to be fabricated. And since it’s already here, it’s something we can always return to. (When grace allows us to remember.)
SHIFT IN CENTER OF GRAVITY
Through this, we may find ourselves as what already notices and allows what’s here. We may find ourselves as capacity for anything that happens in our field of experience. We may find ourselves as what it all happens within and as.
Over time, there may be a shift from noticing and seeing it to finding ourselves as it, both during these explorations in daily life.
SEED FROM ANOTHER POST
One way to explore this is through basic meditation. I notice and allow what’s here in my field of experience. I notice I am unable to do it through intention or effort since attention gets distracted and I am unable to consciously allow every experience. I may notice that this content of experience is already noticed and allowed, and rest in that noticing.