The unknown is perfectly safe.
You don't need to know how your heart beats.
In order for your heart to beat.
It's beating all by itself.
You don't need to know.
How or why it beats.
In order for your heart to beat.
It is automatic.
The same is true for all of your bodily systems,
Your breathing.
So let yourself breathe.
And let your heart beat.
Just leave it all alone.
No need to figure anything out.
The mind doesn't need to be involved.
Let it all be a mystery.
Uncertainty is good for you.
It's very freeing.
Nobody knows what the future holds.
Why waste energy trying to predict?
Let it be uncertain.
Let it all be unknown.
Tolerate the slight uneasiness that is evoked in the body and mind at this prospect.
What is this feeling of uneasiness as we enter the unknown?
Are you sure it's fair?
And not excitement.
This nervous energy.
Could be either.
Fear or excitement.
It just depends on your interpretation.
So let the future be uncertain.
Let reality in the present be uncertain.
And let the past be uncertain also.
Simply no need to figure anything out.
And whatever uneasiness arises from this not knowing.
Just be interested in it.
How curious.
What is this vibrating tension?
Is it so bad?
Look how exciting this mystery really is.
Who knows?
What reality is,
What's coming next,
Nobody knows.
Give yourself permission to say,
I don't know.
This is a powerful way of quietening the mind.
Just say,
I don't know.
I don't know what to do about those big decisions.
I don't know what's coming next.
I don't know what reality is.
I don't know what to do.
I've thought about it.
Often.
My whole life.
And I have not reached a satisfactory conclusion,
So I'm going to leave it all alone.
I don't know.
Simply observe.
Your experience in the present without analysis.
Without judgment.
You are free to experience whatever you're experiencing you don't need to figure anything out it's done for you,
It's automatic See clearly.
You are safe and secure in the present moment.
And it's not the mind that is creating this safety.
Safety is implied,
It is inherent.
We only feel unsafe and uncertain when the mind gets involved,
Tries to control everything,
Figure everything out.
When the mind is silent.
We find there are no problems.
And really.
The unknown can only exist.
If we try to know.
If you cease trying to know.
There is neither knowing nor unknowing.
Simply be at peace.
Happy in the now.
No need to know what's next.
There is no next.
The mind is overwhelmed.
By its own imagination about the future.
Mind can predict a near infinite number of scenarios,
Problems,
Catastrophes.
.
.
The anxious mind creates a lot of fear.
But this fear is not inherent to reality,
It's created by the mind.
Liberate yourself from the pressure.
The Burden trying to accurately predict the future.
It is quite absurd.
Just let it go.
And see your life continues just fine.
Automatically,
Without the mind involved.
Uncertainty is a happy thing.
It is grace.
In a moment we will be leaving the formal aspect of this meditation.
But don't be so quick to jump back into the usual habits of the mind.
Trying to control and understand everything.
Just give yourself a little space.
It's okay to not know.
Thank you for meditating with me today.
Take care,
Be well.
And stay present.
