Insight 14: Looking at the Mind and the Self

Instructions

Pay attention in the quiet moments in the recording.

Meditation

  • Allow the mind to rest.
  • Observe the mind that moves. 
  • Observe the mind that is still. 
  • Recognize the moving mind and the stillness of mind inseparable. 
  • Looking at the still mind and that which appears to the mind, can you find a self? 
  • Is the mind fixating on what is being experienced? 
  • Is the mind fabricating what is being experienced? 
  • Let the mind rest, recognizing mind’s nature, empty of finding something concrete, yet knowing that experience is manifesting. 
  • Rest free of putting any emphasis on meditative experiences.

After Meditation

  • Can you recognize how a thought, an emotion or a sensation appears, where it abides, and the way it disappears? 
  • The ability to recognize is the clarity aspect of the mind. 
  • Have you the ability to recognize the emptiness of mind in that it is unfindable? 
  • In the not finding, do you recognize the mind can experience and know that it is experiencing? 
  • Is this recognition clear even for a moment? 
  • What fixates or fabricates what is being experienced?
  • What part does the self play?

During the Day

If you have some clarity of recognizing mind’s nature, even if it is for a quick moment, take this quick moment to increase your ability to turn the mind to recognizing mind’s nature many times throughout the day. Persevere.

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