Instructions
Allow the quiet time in the recording to support your practice.
Meditation
- Allow the mind to rest and notice the calm mind.
- Turn your mind to thoughts forming and dissolving, the moving mind.
- Refrain from engaging in the content of a thought.
- Allow a thought to form, does it affect the calm mind?
- If you see that a thought affects the calm mind, does that mean the calm mind and moving mind are different?
- Look to see if they are different.
- If you find they are not different, are the calm mind and moving mind the same?
- Look at the calm mind and moving mind to see if they are the same.
- Looking at calm mind and moving mind, can you remove one from the other; calm mind from moving mind or moving mind from calm mind?
- Are they separate, or are they inseparable?
- Do the calm mind and moving mind have a knowing quality to them in the sense that you can recognize them, but you cannot make any determination about them?
- Rest in the knowing of calm mind and moving mind.
- Turn your mind to the spaciousness or stillness of the mind.
- Turn your mind to the thoughts remaining free of engaging with them.
- Rest the mind remaining aware of both the stillness of mind and the thoughts.
- Let the mind rest.
After Meditation
- Can you see that by alternating your attention from still mind to moving mind, they are simultaneously present?
- Were you able to rest your mind with both? Or did your attention favor one over the other?
- Were you able to recognize calm mind and moving mind inseparable?
- If so, you have reached the ability to recognize the nature of mind even if it is for a brief moment.
During the Day
Several times a day take brief moments to recognize calm mind and moving mind inseparable. What happens?
In those moments, is there a perceptible shift in your relationship with your life?