Saturday, January 19, 2008

every Night we disappear

a whole new coyotagory


As we fall asleep we let go of everything and slip into sleep, disappearing. To master this process without falling asleep requires meditation as a way of life, but it is something we already have experienced. It is a memory.


Meditation is not something we can "do", one can't actually meditate. Rather it is something that happens to us, something we can only create the conditions for. A good workable idea about disappearing is that disappearing is approachable by ultimately acheiving the state known as "burning with the awareness of the totality of ourselves" but disappearing can be experienced, worked with, now, by embracing pain as a cleansing radiation and sacrificing ones mechanical suffering, by eliminating self importance, by erasing ones personal history, etc. , sometimes in excruciating increments.
Disappearing is going to occur in direct experience, not in reason and it will be a new category with which one has no reference points for so one must proceed with effortless effort, letting go and letting go of letting go, opening sensing and feeling using attention and eventually presence. If one can stay present and aware while letting everything fall away, as it does every night, what is left will be the real. The ego will be passive effectively disappearing. When one has mastered the ego through meditative discipline, mindfulness, and discernment, there is ego freedom to approach.





Disappearing


Obtain a mirror in which you can see your whole self in seated meditation position. Sit for 40 minutes per day, meditating. Split your attention 50/50 between relaxing your facial tension completely and staring into your own eyes. In around forty days you will observe yourself disappear during your sessions.

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