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Catching up to life
Jeffrey
Veteran
It can seem like one is always catching up to life. Getting a routine of meditation. Losing weight. Growing a garden. All of these things are great. But this sense of not being 'there yet'. Is kind of tiring. It's like I am not in tune with the present whatever it might be because I am thinking about the great life 'later on'.
I started thinking about this passage in a text:
I started thinking about this passage in a text:
I feel like my sense of how the future will be is 'stuck' and distracting. So I want to remind myself that everything is always changing. This 'catching up with life' is like missing the moments.. or somehow feeling dull. I wake myself up that I will one day be dying. I want to get involved more in the present and break out of that dullness.
Before beginning your meditation session over the next few days, think about impermanence. All thoughts, feelings, and sensations that arise in meditation demonstrate the truth of impermanence. Relating to impermanence means letting go into the spaciousness of experience with confidence. Resolve to turn towards all experiences and let go into the spaciousness of the continual process of change. Resolve to let the change be a constant trigger of awareness, waking you up into that sense of freedom and spaciousness.
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This is where life is, this is where aliveness is.
This right here is the sacred groundless, ground. Right in front of us, nakedly apparent.
Never have you left this basic state. Recognize and relax into this space.
Beyond that what mediation is there?
Good luck my friend.
Who have not learned to walk with the world.”
The Holy Kural