Meditation On The Space Between The Thoughts

In this meditation, you will learn to notice the quiet gaps between thoughts. Instead of following each thought, the practice gently guides you to rest in the brief moments of silence that naturally appear between them. As awareness becomes more subtle, these pauses may feel spacious and deeply calm. Over time, this meditation can help reveal a quiet background of awareness that is always present beneath the activity of the mind.

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Transcript

Let's do another meditation on awareness. In this meditation, You can sit either in a cross-legged position or in a chair. Just keep your spine relatively upright. And what we're going to do this time is we're going to be focusing on our thoughts, But we are not going to follow the thoughts. Thoughts simply arise and go away. Each thought is transitory. It comes up and it will naturally go away. So what is the difference between observing our thoughts and thinking? Thinking is a type of grasping. A thought comes up and we attach to it, We involve with it, We develop it. And that's what makes it stay longer and longer. If we just let the thought come up and observed it, It would go away. So sitting, Having your hands either on the knees facing upwards or down, Or in your lap, One palm on top of the other, Or interlocking the fingers. Closing the eyes. Sitting in silence and observing the thoughts. Without grasping, Without staying with each thought, We recognize that thoughts are like clouds drifting in the air. The clouds come and go, But the sky of awareness is always there. The clouds appear in the sky as the thoughts appear in awareness. And the clouds disappear from the sky as the thoughts disappear from awareness. Don't get attached to any single thought. Simply observe the thought as it comes and as it goes. Now I want to call your attention to a very specific moment. A moment that happens just before a thought enters the mind. And a similar moment that happens the moment after a thought leaves the mind and before a new thought enters into it. There is a moment of silence. Bring your attention to these moments of silence between the thoughts. Bring your attention to these moments of silence between the thoughts. And we stay with the silence that is between the thoughts. If you find yourself lost in thoughts, Just recognize that the moment that you have discovered that you are lost in thoughts is the moment in which you are no longer lost in thoughts. And have regained your awareness. And then simply stay observing the thoughts as they come and go, Paying more and more attention to the space between the thoughts. As you do this, You will note that the space between the thoughts becomes larger and longer. Come back slowly. I wish you a wonderful day.