Combining of physical with the non physical

[BeOne]

Just recently i have been trying to regularily meditate. Failing at making it daily so far but i am determined to make it daily. Today i extended meditation from 20 minutes to 30. I had an unusual strong urge to meditate this morning. This is hard for me to describe but I will try. As images and general thoughts come to mind, I sometimes get an image of a non physical items. When i realize what i am seeing it disapears instantly. I can never remember what i had seen. I am just left with a sinse that i saw a non physical item. Example: Take the word "pride". It is not a physical thing. It is an atribute someone has. While meditating pride for a microsecond is a physical thing. This is just an example. I can't give you a real incident because i don't ever remember exactly what the word or feeling was. I just remember i seen something that doesn't exist physically. At least not to my knowledge. This is an over simplification of what happens but I don't know how else to describe it. Anyone else relate or able to shed more light on this?

[deci belle]

I would not talk about this with anyone— but I'm glad you mentioned it.

Without developing any obsessive tendencies, and without looking for anything in particular, continue your observation.

At any rate, beginners such as yourself experiencing the outset of taking up "meditation", are, for the first time, coming face to face with the peculiarities of your personal conditioned mentality being starved of its habitual venues of activity. That's all any of these experiences are. Do not make anything of your sensorial/psychological glimpses, or you will succumb to the first pitfall of observing mind.

Correct observation of mind is just seeing what is, without entertaining fascinations~ otherwise what's the difference with exercising the discriminating mentality inside or outside?

The whole point of meditation is to forget the mentality that compulsively decides. Work on this in a light, breezy, calm way for 10 or 20 years. Eventually, this experiential practice will have a greater influence on your life in everyday ordinary situations.

There is nothing wrong with decisions, just the habitual activity of one's psychological makeup being compelled to do so without alternative, without a break, is antithetical to actualization of nonpsychological potential. It is simply not possible to awaken to one's inherent potential with that monkey on your back.

Who is the monkey? It's the discursive mind— the one who takes words.

In a nutshell, words are the person. The person is who you think you are. You say words are not physical~ but the compulsion to see yourself as a thing is very detrimental to seeing reality as it is. So the power of words is controlling the physical in a very powerful way. And that is perpetuating karmic evolution for yourself and others. Karmic evolution is bondage to psychological (hence physical) momentum. Meditation is the potential gateway to realizing liberation because it is a way of stopping and seeing the matrix of creation as is without filters of personality, knower, and liver of life. The illusiional filter of who you think you are is not a bad thing at all— but you don't know otherwise at this point.

Meditation is actually a way to prepare for a world of real experience that transcends illusion—  and that's not for everyone. The world of real experience transcending illusion is not a meditation exercise. Reality and illusion are not different— it is a matter of perspective (and a lot of world-shattering experience).

Meditation is a very powerful antidote to the word (world). I would not tread lightly here. It is very important to have an approach to meditation that is very light, breezy and calmly observant of the contents (or not) of one's mental rumination or stasis. Do not anticipate any kinds of discoveries of "spiritual" entities, realms, or states. If you do encounter such situations, your approach is seriously in error. Do not persist in such activity.

Ultimately, the virtuous quality of open sincerity is the full blossoming of the mind-ground of one's inherent enlightening being. This is not the person; yet it is none other than one's own identity of true unity void of the word. Such a one is able to employ the word and not be employed by words.

In taoist spiritual alchemy, this is carrying out "reversal" and achieving its end to the benefit of self and others.

 

 

ed note: typo, 6th paragraph

Edited October 7, 2018 by deci belle

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