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Meditation is bringing the mind home
SeaOfTranquility
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Bring your mind home. And release. And relax.
To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the state of ‘calm abiding’ through the practice of mindfulness. In its deepest sense, to bring the mind home is to turn your mind inwards.
To release means to release the mind from its prison of grasping. Pain, fear and distress arise from the cravings of the grasping mind. On a deeper level, the realisation that arises from your growing understanding enables you to release the grasping from your heart, letting it free itself, to melt away.
To relax means to be spacious and to relax the mind of its tensions. You relax into the true nature of mind. It is like pouring a handful of sand onto a flat surface; each grain settles of its accord.
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Think of your ordinary, emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation. Let peace enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of ‘calm abiding’, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of ‘clear seeing’.
To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the state of ‘calm abiding’ through the practice of mindfulness. In its deepest sense, to bring the mind home is to turn your mind inwards.
To release means to release the mind from its prison of grasping. Pain, fear and distress arise from the cravings of the grasping mind. On a deeper level, the realisation that arises from your growing understanding enables you to release the grasping from your heart, letting it free itself, to melt away.
To relax means to be spacious and to relax the mind of its tensions. You relax into the true nature of mind. It is like pouring a handful of sand onto a flat surface; each grain settles of its accord.
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Think of your ordinary, emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation. Let peace enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of ‘calm abiding’, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of ‘clear seeing’.
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