Wise Perception: Neither Good Nor Bad

In this meditation, you’ll use two of the sense doors, hearing and feeling, to widen and steady your awareness. Sounds and bodily sensations are always arriving, which makes them reliable anchors for noticing what’s here as it happens.
As you listen and feel, you’ll explore wise perception: seeing experience as it is, without sorting it into good or bad, like or dislike. You may notice the mind’s quick tendency to prefer or push away, and how much more spacious things become when you let sounds and sensations simply be what they are. Nothing needs to be improved or removed.
Suitable for newer and experienced meditators alike.

Transcript

Getting comfortable in whatever position that you would like to maintain while we're meditating together. Sitting down, Lying down. Anything that allows you to be as relaxed as possible. My name is Sadie and I'll guide you through a practice that I hope has some space and silence in between the guides just to give you more time to practice internally. Becoming more aware of what is going on inside of your internal landscape. And when I am. . . Guiding, Feel free while we're together to just notice that you can be aware. Of my voice or that you're hearing already. UCR. The sense tone of hearing if you are able to hear, Just to be aware of sound. And noticing what else you're able to be aware of right now in this present moment. Maybe it's the body that's sitting or resting, Lying down. Just taking a moment to recognize the body now. To just know how it is that you know that you even have a body. And increasing our awareness in general. Right now, So far, We've worked really on the two-cent stores of hearing. And feeling, Hearing, The guide, Feeling, The body. Some people prefer to meditate with their eyes slightly open, So able to use that sense door to be aware of seeing. There may be smells in the air that you can be aware of. Just watching the way the mind reacts to any of these things, Just noticing what it is the difference between. Being aware and how it feels also when we are unaware or lost in thought. In this practice. We're really examining the unexamined. So the unexamined habits of liking or disliking. To have thoughts of wanting or not wanting, Preference and non-preference, Judgment, Fear, None of these are a problem. It only really becomes a problem when these thoughts become the attitude. By which we relate to reality in general. Judgments, Opinions. Likes and dislikes. Solidify into unskillful attitudes. When we identify with them. And when we believe in them. And we react to all of these. Without that awareness component. And we can choose to relate to these thoughts in another way. Which is through wise perception. When we see our unskillful thoughts with wise perception, Even these unskillful thoughts can support awareness, Stability of mind, And wisdom. Just acknowledging them as another natural. And organic unfolding of the mind. Wise perception is to see them. And learn from them, But just to really leave them alone. And the difference between a meditator and a non-meditator, Is this change in attitude altogether? So for the meditator, Any object can be used to grow your awareness, Your stability of mind, And bring about wisdom. And keeping that in mind. Any object can be used to grow your awareness. And now I'm thanking you, And may you thank yourself for this time.