Today,
I'd like to talk about the ability to remain unmoved,
Unreactive,
Non-reactive and fluid as though you're olive oil on Teflon where nothing sticks to you.
No reactive nature,
No concern,
No loss in story or drama,
And an exploratory quality of being a witness mind rather than a participant in the mind.
And so,
We start with your own mind and of course,
We have your mind and my mind,
We have emotions and they arise and we get lost in the story of something good,
Something bad,
Fear,
Anxiety,
What will be the outcome,
What haven't I done in the future,
The trauma and drama of the past which of course can be very challenging.
But then we also have the minds of the people we live with and work with and the interaction between one's own mind and their mind and their dramas and their storytelling and their mythologies and so we're engaging in a collective interaction between one's own mind and history and others and of course,
We all know this.
Then the next quality of awareness is the world's mind,
Meaning sort of a collective quality of understanding and that's an even greater influence on our own thinking.
It could be unconscious,
It's certainly collective.
For instance,
When there's anxiety around war as we saw when Russia invaded Ukraine,
When there's a global pandemic,
When there's an uprising and the breakdown of an oligarch or a totalitarian regime and so how does our mind react collectively to life,
To the world and you take these three,
One's own mind,
One's mind in relation to others that we are engaged with and one's mind as it relates to the influence of a global consciousness and it all creates a drama,
A story,
A reactive self and so how does one move through this to the divine mind,
To the mind that is the witness of all this,
To a mind that remains calm and as the observer of reality rather than getting lost in its story and in some ways,
I look at this as a simple pulling back of myself into awareness.
It's as simple as that.
It's a practice.
So I find myself sometimes lost in a story or a drama or an emotion or a reactivity and my mind is spinning and it's talking and it's reactive.
The moment I pull back as though it's like an inch of awareness,
I pull back and I become the observer of that drama,
Of that engagement and I watch it as though I'm watching a story on television.
I immediately begin to unhook the mind so that it becomes freer and so the super mind,
The observer mind,
The mind that is free from the storytelling is actually a resting place and it reminds me of the way water falls on a lotus leaf and just beads,
It just rolls right off or oil on a on a teflon pan,
It just slides away and so it becomes non-sticky.
Therefore,
Can thoughts just move by like clouds in the sky without you grabbing onto any thought and just observe the thought as it moves by?
That's a practice.
Can thoughts arise and with like a sweet smile you let them go?
Can you sit in the pure arising of experience,
Your senses,
Taste,
Touch,
Smell,
Sight,
Sound and observe,
Experience the spark of life in the moment without falling into the talking about that experience,
Just the observing of life this second,
This second,
This second and one of the best ways to do this is simply to focus the mind on one thing,
It's called ekagrata and it's one pointedness of mind and I do that by remembering to turn my awareness back onto my breath as I exits,
I follow it down at the bottom,
I pause just to feel that pause and then I follow the breath up and then back down and then there's a slight pause.
That simple practice is actually potent and it allows the spinning mind and perhaps the negative spinning mind but the spinning mind that talks and goes on about the this and that of life,
The drama of life,
It allows it to stop its wild stallion movement and focus back down on a still point.
Then the higher mind,
The mystic's mind,
The mind of God,
The mind that's expansive,
The arising the spark of life,
The quality of who you are right now,
This second,
When the drama doesn't cover it,
Is allowed to be more present and express itself and so this is a beautiful practice.
I love life,
I get lost in it,
There's the drama,
There's the fun,
There's the upset,
There's all of those things but mostly I love to play in the space in between that,
In the space in between where I have mastery,
Where I have some not full mastery but where I have some agency over my mind,
Intellect,
And ego,
Where I can sit in between the arising of the ego's engagement with reality and just play with my perception,
Identity,
And my ego,
Where I can just feel life,
It's super tantric,
Where I can super feel life arising,
The spark,
The emotions,
Everything that arises,
And observe without reactivity,
Observe without reactivity,
And when I find that my mind is too engaged,
I come back to my home base,
Which is following my breath down,
Pausing at the bottom,
Following my breath up,
And that beautiful calming down of the negative spinning mind or the spinning mind that sits in the drama of life.
Be pure,
Exquisite awareness without the stickiness of life attaching to your mind.
Be Teflon,
Be a lotus leaf where the engagement with reality doesn't stick to you.
Walk through the day free,
Walk through the day with a mind expanded,
With your consciousness freed up to be an expression of divine consciousness without the story and the drama covering it like a veil.
And with this,
All there is,
Is the practice of it.
So thank you for listening.
Play,
Play with reality,
And I think it'll help offer a really amazing journey that is rather exquisite.
