Imagine for a moment your mind,
The flow of thoughts and feelings,
The flow of experience.
Imagine it as a mighty river,
Moving powerfully,
Moving freely,
Moving uninterruptedly,
Spontaneously.
And feeling into the flow of this river of thinking,
Rushing by.
So dynamic,
So free.
Just completely allowing the river to rush,
To move with all its power and unpredictability,
Making no effort to stop the river,
No effort to try and direct its course in any way.
Not knowing which way the river will turn or shape itself,
Not knowing exactly how it will flow,
How it will feel,
How it will be experienced,
But completely allowing the river of thinking and feeling to move as it will,
To flow as it will,
To be exactly as it is.
No need to dam up the river to keep it in check,
To keep it from spilling over its banks.
Sometimes it may be a gentle trickle,
Sometimes a mighty raging out of control force,
But no matter,
The river just flows and we enjoy making no movement to alter its course.
And also recognizing that there is no separation between what we call us and this river that's flowing.
The observer of this mighty river and the river itself,
Indistinguishable,
Inseparable,
Zero degrees,
Separating what is seen and what is felt from the seeing and the feeling itself.
Another wonderful metaphor for the movement of experience,
The movement of experience,
The movement of thinking and feeling and sensing is fire.
Fire is so dynamic,
So unpredictable,
So powerful,
So bright,
So uncontrollable and uncontainable.
Just feeling your own mind,
Your own thinking,
Feeling,
Sensing,
Experiencing as a fire burning,
However it may be burning and making no effort to rein it in,
No effort to put the fire out and no effort to stop its burning,
But just letting it burn,
Even if the burning feels wild and out of control.
Just allowing that dynamism to be as it is.
