Instructions
Place yourself in a very busy, loud environment. There will be quiet times in the recording.
Meditation
- Rest without manipulating your experience at all.
- Is there anything that you can find that you can rely on?
- Rest the mind in all experience being unpredictable, being impermanent.
- Can you find anything that brings a sense of safety?
- What is it that wants to feel safe?
- Be in experience, free of controlling your experience.
- Be present with all the movement that surrounds you.
- Are you able to rest free of reacting to anything that is being experienced?
- Rest the mind while maintaining awareness.
After Meditation
- At the time of death, what thought, sensation, emotion, appearance is going to help you?
- Are you able to experience the mystery of life?
- Were you able to be with a chaotic environment?
- Be more curious about experience when you are afraid.
- Look to see if this feeling of unsafe arises due to a mistaken belief that you can control the world of experience.
- When you drop control, what happens to safe and unsafe?
During the Day
Most of the time we are caught up with fictitious experiences through constantly labeling and conceptualizing. Take the time to experience life fully, free from labeling and conceptualizing.
Observe unpredictable events and rest a moment in their impermanence. Train by putting yourself into chaotic situations and see if you can refrain from reacting, but still remain present.
Do you have the capacity in this environment to rest the mind? If so, it will be of benefit at the time of death.