| "In mindfulness meditation, you grow in | | | | aware they are. It is not wrong, we were taught |
| awareness by becoming conscious of what is | | | | to impress others. It is ingrained in us to do so. |
| unconscious. | | | | But in spending so much time trying to create |
| You have been meditating for years thinking your | | | | ourselves to be a certain way, we do not see |
| mind is still in meditation, and then suddenly you | | | | what is actually here. We have simply created the |
| see you have been lost in your thinking the whole | | | | idea of consciousness on top of our |
| time without even knowing it. | | | | unconsciousness. |
| Because of our conditioning, the tendency is to | | | | For awareness to grow you have to be willing to |
| feel down about yourself, to feel like this | | | | observe without judgement. To allow yourself to |
| realization that you have been unconscious for so | | | | be honest and vulnerable enough to see what is |
| long means you have failed. | | | | unconscious. |
| But the realization that you have been caught up | | | | You can follow this simple mindfulness meditation |
| in thinking for the last 20 years of meditation is a | | | | technique by closing your eyes and watching your |
| great realization. Because it means suddenly you | | | | breath and then becoming aware of everything |
| are aware of what you have not been aware of | | | | that takes you away from your focus on your |
| for over 20 years. | | | | breath. |
| You take a quantum leap in awareness because | | | | The moment you become aware of the |
| of this. | | | | unconscious, it becomes conscious. |
| Many people spend their time trying to convince | | | | It does not matter what you see. It is the seeing |
| themselves and others how great they are, how | | | | itself that is important. |