| To understand meditation & consciousness you | | | | other. |
| first have to take a good honest look at the | | | | And so the remedy in meditation is not to try |
| mind. The source of all problems is the mind. | | | | and have one thought over the other, but to stop |
| Thoughts arise in consciousness, you identify with | | | | the identification with thinking all together. |
| the thoughts arising and that defines your | | | | Whether through witnessing thoughts or placing |
| experience. This is the mind. It is your identification | | | | your attention on the experience of |
| with the thoughts arising. | | | | consciousness that is here beyond thinking, it is to |
| So many thoughts arise without you even | | | | break that addiction to identifying with thoughts |
| knowing it. So many worries and troubles | | | | and rest as your natural state as consciousness. |
| constantly arising and repeating and although you | | | | To stop allowing thoughts to dictate your |
| are not conscious of them, you are identified with | | | | experience and instead discover in meditation |
| them. | | | | what is truly here beyond the thinking. To realize |
| You are identified with the stress of the thoughts, | | | | your natural state. |
| the conflict of the thoughts and so that is your | | | | Because your natural state is consciousness and |
| experience. | | | | the experience of consciousness is love, is peace, |
| Let's say you have to get your toilet fixed. You | | | | is bliss. Not some emotional experience on the |
| know you have to get your toilet fixed. But the | | | | surface but every cell of existence vibrating as |
| thought repeats itself over and over in your mind | | | | bliss. |
| as conflict until you resolve it. | | | | And if you can taste that once in meditation, then |
| The thought sits on your shoulders like a hundred | | | | you can do it twice. Then you can rest in your |
| pound weight telling you life is not the way it is | | | | natural state for longer periods of time before |
| supposed to be until the toilet is fixed and only | | | | being pulled back into thinking. |
| then it goes away. And then the plumber says "I | | | | And eventually, the duality between thoughts and |
| can't come until next Wednesday" and that hurts | | | | peace ceases to exist in meditation. You begin to |
| because you know you will have to carry around | | | | experience thoughts as energy, as consciousness |
| that thought, that conflict of "I have to get the | | | | itself. You experience the very nature of thought |
| toilet fixed for another week. | | | | itself which is unconditional bliss. |
| And there are thousands of thoughts just like | | | | It's like you stop being involved with the lyrics to |
| that arising so fast! Toilet fixed, dentist | | | | the song and just enjoy the music. The bliss of |
| appointment late on rent, your high school | | | | the 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 of | | | | longer wearing it as a hat. It no longer defines |
| deep peace and freedom from all identity and | | | | you. |
| boom, the mind looks for something to identify | | | | You exist completely free of it as unconditional |
| with and there's the broken toilet, the rent bill, the | | | | peace. The key is to learn to witness the |
| high school sweetheart and the bully and a | | | | thoughts, not identify with them. |
| thousand others within seconds. | | | | An easy way to experience this state of |
| And that's who you think you are that is how you | | | | unconditional peace is by listening to unique |
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| your experience. | | | | your natural state of peace. Check out the |
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| that creates conflict and stress. You want one | | | | information and free samples. |
| thought over the other; one experience over the | | | | |