In this series of meditations and reflections, I will be sharing a few ideas that will resonate with you if you have already followed my previous courses,
Meditation Practice Foundations and
Awakening the Heart. The important thing is to have spent some time sitting down and getting to know your own mind in a quiet situation. That is important because it's difficult to talk about the mind, how the mind is, the deeper understanding that we can have of our mind, if we don't have some basic experience of the mind and how it works.
In the first three sessions, we’ll start by revisiting some approaches which will be familiar from my previous courses, followed by methods to allow the mind to settle into its natural equilibrium. We will be examining the possibility of going beyond our habitual anxieties and obsessions and discovering our capacity for inner stability. Gradually, in the midst of life’s uncertainties, we can discover the magic of our mind’s hidden potential.
If you look at the sea, sometimes the sea is calm, and sometimes it's very rough. But all those waves fall back into the same sea, and in the same way, sometimes our mind is still, sometimes there's a little movement, and sometimes it's extremely turbulent.
If we can just be aware and let that turbulence be, arise, and subside, then its power over us will automatically be limited. A thought only appears in a moment and then disappears. However, when we attach to it, it produces another thought and it becomes a seemingly endless chain. Seemingly, because the chain isn't endless. We may have the idea that our mind goes along deliberate tracks, one thing after another. However, when we examine more closely, we can see that anything can arise.
