Attend to the thoughts and
emotions that come and go in your mind. Normally we interact with these
thoughts and emotions by either amplifying and enhancing them or truncating
and suppressing them. In either case, we pump energy into them. This
energy constantly creates and maintains our lifeworld, the self.
In our meditation practice
we neither amplify nor suppress thoughts and feelings. We simply experience
them as they are, letting them arise, grow to maturity, and dissipate
without interacting with them.
The energy we normally spend
chasing our thoughts we now channel towards remaining in the present.
We open our minds up, and let go of any distinction between the aware
subject, the process of being aware, and the object of awareness. We
remain totally in the present just as it is without leaping into the
past or future.
Throughout our lives, our
mind has been conditioned to turn what is here into things. During meditation
we break this habit by not attaching to the "thing-making" spasms of
our mind.
Simply let thoughts and feelings
come and go. Stay in the present just as it is without "thinging it
up."
Relax, and become awareness.
