Started Following Awareness While Meditating

[doubld]

Hey guys! I have been meditating off and on now for a little over a year, but I finally started doing it consistently about two months ago. So earlier today, I was doing the do-nothing technique, and something happened that has never happened before. It literally felt like I was directly following wherever my awareness went, or in other words my awareness and attention were synced up together. I guess I don't really have a specific question, just wanted to see if anyone else experiences this, or maybe this is how this type of meditation should happen?

[Azrael]

16 hours ago, doubld said:

It literally felt like I was directly following wherever my awareness went, or in other words my awareness and attention were synced up together. I guess I don't really have a specific question, just wanted to see if anyone else experiences this, or maybe this is how this type of meditation should happen?

You are on a good track with this.

How this meditation should happen is basically ... that you sit down for some time. The rest comes on the way. This disturbs most western minds because it seems like a waste of time if you just sit down ... not doing anything. Not even repeating a mantra to calm your mind. Not even trying to stop thinking, not even trying to stop the stopping of thinking. Just sitting.

We get pissed if we have to do something so stupid. Now, what you experienced there was the first taste of where this meditation can bring you. You said that your awareness and attention synced up.

It probably felt like a flow experience, like you don't have to push things any more in some direction because they push themselves and you are part of it. Kinda feels a little weightless, prickling inside, right?

This is actually how things are at every moment in your life. Completely synced. Just that at some point you started to play a very nuanced game with yourself that goes like this: "If some condition is not satisfied I will contract myself because I have seen that others do that in this situation and it seems appropriate."

We do this from early childhood on and it gets worse with time. Until you are this push-button system that is stressed out all the time because one of the 30 conditions or so isn't satisfied ... or you spend your whole life trying to satisfy these 30 conditions. (I'd say that's a pretty good sum up of most western people. Would even be cool if they knew what they were doing and the conditions they try to chase are authentic .. but it's more like a result of all the social conditioning.)

So yeah ... to come back to the point - - the Do Nothing meditation unhooks you from this this piece by piece ... so that you'll find yourself one day sitting in a train, listening to a baby crying while everybody is pissed and you hear god's voice talking to you (god referring to the course of nature or how you wanna call it).

And last but not least, don't try to chase this (I know that you will and have to see for yourself that you can't) but just sit. Let come what comes and at some point you'll get up and this game is over and you feel like you cheated yourself for I don't know maybe 10-20 years of your life by really trying to convince yourself that this game is real.

Well, it isn't.

Cheers, ...

[doubld]

@Arik Thanks for the lengthy response! I'm happy i finally got a taste of results and now I'm that much more motivated.