Meditation & Consciousness: How to Transcend the Mind

understand meditation & consciousness you firstAnd so the remedy in meditation is not to try
have to take a good honest look at the mind.and have one thought over the other, but to stop
The source of all problems is the mind.the identification with thinking all together.
Thoughts arise in consciousness, you identify withWhether through witnessing thoughts or placing
the thoughts arising and that defines youryour attention on the experience of
experience. This is the mind. It is your identificationconsciousness that is here beyond thinking, it is to
with the thoughts arising.break that addiction to identifying with thoughts
So many thoughts arise without you evenand rest as your natural state as consciousness.
knowing it.To stop allowing thoughts to dictate your
So many worries and troubles constantly arisingexperience and instead discover in meditation
and repeating and although you are not consciouswhat is truly here beyond the thinking. To realize
of them, you are identified with them.your natural state.
You are identified with the stress of the thoughts,Because your natural state is consciousness and
the conflict of the thoughts and so that is yourthe experience of consciousness is love, is peace,
experience.is bliss.
Let's say you have to get your toilet fixed. YouNot some emotional experience on the surface
know you have to get your toilet fixed. But thebut every cell of existence vibrating as bliss.
thought repeats itself over and over in your mindAnd if you can taste that once in meditation, then
as conflict until you resolve it.you can do it twice.
The thought sits on your shoulders like a hundredThen you can rest in your natural state for longer
pound weight telling you life is not the way it isperiods of time before being pulled back into
supposed to be until the toilet is fixed and onlythinking.
then it goes away.And eventually, the duality between thoughts and
And then the plumber says "I can't come untilpeace ceases to exist in meditation. You begin to
next Wednesday" and that hurts because youexperience thoughts as energy, as consciousness
know you will have to carry around that thought,itself.
that conflict of "I have to get the toilet fixed forYou experience the very nature of thought itself
another week.which is unconditional bliss.
And there are thousands of thoughts just likeIt's like you stop being involved with the lyrics to
that arising so fast! Toilet fixed, dentistthe song and just enjoy the music. The bliss of
appointment late on rent, your high schoolthe music.
sweetheart dumped you for the school bully.The toilet still needs to be fixed but you're no
You wake up in the morning from a state oflonger wearing it as a hat. It no longer defines
deep peace and freedom from all identity andyou.
boom, the mind looks for something to identifyYou exist completely free of it as unconditional
with and there's the broken toilet, the rent bill, thepeace.
high school sweetheart and the bully and aThe key is to learn to witness the thoughts, not
thousand others within seconds.identify with them.
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