Wednesday, June 2, 2010

attend to the unconscious with "evenly suspended attention"

Sometimes there is nothing to say because it feels like there is simply nothing going on...This seeming nothingness is a very fertile ground, I have come to experience. Where seeds have been sown and are waiting to sprout....

To attend to the unconscious stirrings within oneself with evenly suspended attention before taking action....

The way to evenly suspend one's attention is through meditation.

I want to bring into special prominence what I have come to understand as meditation - not medication. Not the feel good warm fuzzy thing that we do to escape or soften reality....

....rather the willingness to sit with whatever it is we are experiencing whether it be soft or hard, comforting or discomforting.... to sit with it and allow it..giving it full permission to just be there... simply noting what is going on without doing anything with it...

and then slowly expanding awareness to include anything else that may be happening simultaneously....without losing awareness of one thing in favour of another....

....this paying attention is not only a kind of love.... this evenly suspended attention IS love....

It is called "choiceless awareness"....not choosing one thing over another....and allowing what emerges from that bed of neutral attention to express itself unfettered by compulsion....

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