Hello and welcome.
This meditation is called Why do I feel dissatisfied?
Have you ever noticed that even when life appears to be going well,
There can be a restlessness,
An undercurrent pointing to something that seems to be missing?
Perhaps you achieved something you wanted,
And for a while there is a sense of satisfaction and joy.
But then the mind,
With its unsettled nature and desire for more,
Begins looking for something else.
Another challenge,
Another opportunity to experience that feeling of satisfaction again.
So what is this undercurrent of dissatisfaction we can feel?
Why does it appear?
Could it be that what we are truly craving is something other than the satisfaction we seek through external achievements?
Let's explore this together.
Dissatisfaction can arise when we place interpretations,
Comparisons or judgments upon what is happening.
We can unconsciously bring our personal preferences into what is essentially a natural experience.
It might sound like.
It would be better if I got what I had planned for.
I could finally relax if all this uncertainty was resolved.
I would feel much happier if I had more time.
I could enjoy this moment if I received the acknowledgement I know I deserve.
And we may not even be aware that we are doing this.
Some experience is unfolding.
And almost immediately the mind compares what is happening with what it believes should be happening,
Could be happening,
Or what it wants to happen.
This should be different.
This should be easier.
This wasn't planned for.
Why should I have to deal with this?
Can you see how personal resistance and suffering can arise here?
The experience itself is here,
But we are not allowing it to be simply as it is.
We want something else,
Something more to our personal liking.
And we imagine that once things change,
Then we can feel satisfied.
So what would happen if,
Just for a moment,
We didn't ask the experience to be anything more than what it is?
What if we simply allowed whatever is present to be exactly as it is,
Before judgment,
Before interpretation,
Before the desire to make it anything other than what it is?
This is where a more conscious seeing can unfold.
Letting things simply be as they are.
Perhaps there is some restlessness,
Some uncertainty,
Some concern.
Can these two simply be left as they are without judgment?
Notice how quickly the mind wants to become involved,
To question,
To judge,
To find a solution that feels more personally satisfying.
But instead of following these movements of the mind,
Can we simply notice what is being subtly felt?
And allow it to remain just as it is,
As a whole experience.
Challenges,
Experiences,
Feelings,
Emotions,
Surprises.
Or can simply appear at any given moment.
Without any conscious drive to make them something else,
Without creating another layer of wanting that creates a sense of dissatisfaction.
There may be still things we would like to change in our life.
There may still be things we would prefer to be different.
There's no harm in any of that.
But can't we allow what is here to remain what it is,
Without making any sense of satisfaction dependent upon it changing?
And perhaps in doing this,
There is more space,
More lightness,
More freedom,
More spontaneity,
More awareness.
Just in noticing what is actually present,
Before the mind begins to tell you what it should be or could be.
And perhaps this is where we begin to discover something.
The moment itself may not be asking anything of us.
It is simply here.
Experience is happening.
Life is happening.
Dissatisfaction begins.
When we unconsciously ask a natural experience to be something more suited to our personal liking.
There is no need for any moment to become more satisfying.
No need for it to become more meaningful,
More comfortable,
Or more complete.
It is simply a natural moment,
An experience,
Just as it is.
And where we don't follow the pull for more.
When we don't ask experience to give us something else.
When we no longer have the desire to control.
There can be a very simple ease in allowing what is here to remain open and free.
So for a few moments,
Don't look for anything more.
Simply be here with whatever is here.
And notice.
Is anything actually missing from this moment before the mind tells you that something is?
