This meditation helps us get a little bit more familiar with the right view perspective in the practice.
Remembering that the mind is very quick and mental processes can be very subtle.
It can take a while for the perspective to become more natural and the unfamiliar ideas of right view and right view as objects can easily slip from the mind.
So the more we're able to practice with this perspective,
The more natural it becomes to our way of looking.
Let's start as usual by simply settling into the moment.
Coming to experience quite naturally,
Gradually,
Without any sense of forcing.
Notice any sense of agenda or ideas that we have about the meditation.
Ideas about how the practice is going to go.
By noticing those ideas we can hang a little bit looser to them.
Often when we begin sitting,
We're like a stirred up pond with various twigs and leaves and mud whirling around the water.
But with time it settles.
And if the condition of the mind is stirred up and unsettled,
Full of thoughts,
Emotions and tensions.
We can't make it settle and we can't make clarity come.
But we can influence the quality of mind through our presence,
Our patience and our interest in the process just as it is.
So we're learning for ourselves about the conditions that support awareness.
And the conditions that support a helpful perspective on experience.
And this in itself is a wisdom perspective.
A perspective that supports the mind to wakefulness,
To clear seeing in the present moment.
And as you settle into the present moment.
Noticing what's happening within the body and what's happening within the mind.
Watching the mind.
Checking the quality of that awareness.
And the quality of effort,
Quality of attention.
And if you find yourself perhaps leaning into the moment,
Just check how much effort you're using.
Remembering that the practice requires just a small amount of effort.
Effort dropped in really frequently and consistently.
And perhaps checking out every now and again.
How much effort does it take to simply know what's happening?
You're not looking to know continuously but in each moment.
And noticing how you're relating to objects of experience.
We can see two different ways of noticing right view working in the mind.
There might be times where you notice some sense of ownership.
That I'm thinking that thought or having that feeling.
My body hurts.
There are so many ways that selfing happens.
And if we can recognize that process,
See it in awareness,
Then there's some degree of right view.
Perhaps those thoughts usually would just go unnoticed.
They're so close to us,
They're like a second skin.
But through noticing them in awareness,
There's some degree of right view or Dharma perspective.
And at other times,
It might be that we're able to see what's happening a little bit more impersonally.
There's a clearer sense of simply knowing experience after experience as different objects arising in the mind.
Nothing is happening.
Nothing is happening.
And is being known.
All happening within awareness.
So notice,
At times,
The experiences will be known.
With some sense of ownership and taken more personally.
And at other times,
This sense of impersonality.
And just notice how they feel.
Allowing the mind to really relax,
Open,
Let go.
Just be aware of whatever arises.
The experience might not be very exciting.
And that's fine.
Ordinary is fine.
But the awareness of it can have an extraordinary quality at times.
Seeing more clearly,
Seeing more deeply.
And yet with more ease.
This is how things are.
Every now and again.
Check how the mind is relating to the experience it's having.
Check whether right view is happening.
And you can remind yourself of the right view perspective.
Am I relating to experiences as simply objects arising,
Happenings in experience?
Or is there a sense of taking them more personally?
To be mine.
To be part of me.
And either way,
There's some degree of right view present.
Reminding ourselves of the right view perspective is a helpful way of learning not to identify with experience as belonging to me,
As part of me.
We're helping the mind come to understand what's being experienced,
What's being noticed.
Simply happenings in the moment,
Not belonging to anyone.
The experience is simply happening,
Arising,
Persisting,
And then disappearing.
With the right view perspective,
We're looking to have a wise involvement with what we experience.
With the objects of experience.
Rather than being completely enmeshed and identified.
If you find you start to think about all this a little bit too much and the mind gets tense,
Just simply let go into the present moment.
Just notice what's happening.
If it's helpful,
Just taking up an anchor for a minute or two,
Staying with sounds,
Body sensations,
Perhaps the sensations of the breath.
Or you might perhaps tune into any pleasure from being aware.
Can you notice subtle pleasure from being aware in the present moment?
Thanks.
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