BACKWARDS

The reason that most meditation practices do not produce the desired results is because they are doing it backwards - the seeker is seeking himself to fix the problem that the seeker has created. 

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Peace on you 

I love this quote by Milarepa ... The only question is: "Who is the thrower"?

 Find out and stand free.

 

In our meditation practice we are "letting go" - detaching if you will. 

With much practice we come to see that there is nothing to let go of as we are just joining reality.

Wisdom is seeing this.

 

 

We seek and seek and seek and do not find real Peace.

In our meditation practice we stop the seeking and just notice what is so in the present moment.  To notice what is so inside of us is the first step in any meditation practice.

Notice; let it go; feel the peace.  This is the process.   

So simple ... no need to complicate our practice. 

Peace on you. 

 

The first purpose of meditation is to become familiar with our inner life. As we begin to witness our negative thinking and our obsession with the past and the future, they cease to control us - the mind becomes quieter and life takes on a fresh tone.

The ultimate purpose of meditation is to find out who is meditating.  Who obsesses? - who meditates? - and who desires peace?  

With practice (noticing and seeking the seeker), you will come to see that you need do nothing to get out of a problem you don’t have.

 

Reading books on meditation are a way to avoid practice.

Just sit in Silence, empty yourself utterly and all will become clear.  

Peace on you,

bob

The way to a peaceful Heart

 While meditating this morning on faith, by responding to every thought or feeling that arose with: "You [God] alone I trust, thank You [God]".   It became clear to me that to have faith is to just eliminate everything that is not faith: mistakes, worries, grief, guilt, ideas of control, hope, even trying to have more faith, and so forth.

So simple! This is the way to a peaceful heart ... just eliminate everything that is not Peace.

 Peace on you.