Insight 8: Mind at Rest and Mind Moving

Instructions

Experiencing thoughts and sensations while allowing the quiet times to support the experience.

Meditation

  • Let your mind rest open and awake. 
  • Look at the mind that rests. Can you recognize it?
  • Allow a thought or sensation to arise. Can you recognize the mind that is now moving? 
  • Rest with the moving mind.  
  • Do you have an awareness of the mind that rests and the mind that moves? 
  • Is there a familiarity with a mind at rest and a mind that is moving? 
  • Look at the mind free of making any stories. 
  • How is the mind that experiences a thought or a sensation different from the mind that experiences the mind at rest? 
  • Look at what is aware of the mind at rest and the mind moving. 
  • Can you separate the mind at rest from the mind moving? 
  • Rest the mind naturally.

After Meditation

  • Were you able to resist altering your experience of the mind that rests and the mind that moves?
  • What happened when you looked at what is aware?
  • Was there a desire to find something, or could you rest in not finding anything concrete?

During the Day

Several times a day take brief moments to be familiar with a calm mind and a moving mind free of getting caught up with any content or judgment.

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