Read the next paragraph first, then do the practice and play with the teaching…
Close your eyes, take a few deep, slow breaths, relax into yourself, and then imagine, or visualize empty space between your eyes… Between your ears… And then inside your head… Allow yourself to just be empty space, relaxing into your true nature for a few minutes… Or even five or ten minutes, however long you need to get a real feel for it… Then notice how the emptiness is at the same time filled with creative energy, rich in intuitive insights, ideas, and deeper realizations of truth… This creative fullness is there for you to use, whenever you want…
Now open your eyes, and observe how relaxed and at ease you feel, one with life and the unfolding of this moment… And again, read the next two paragraphs through, then close your eyes once more, and experiment with the teaching…
First, contemplate the realization that you are not your thoughts, but rather the ever-present awareness in which thoughts come and go … Then think a thought, any thought, and notice how it rises in your awareness, and then goes away, disappears, only to be replaced by another thought… You can even think specific “I” and “me” thoughts, but they too come and go…
Now, you’ve got to really see this, actually look within and watch how the thoughts and stories, and especially the "I" thought, come and go, pass in and out of your inner visual field, yet you, the seer, the experiencer of your ever-changing thoughts and stories, are always here, always present… The more you see this, and that you—the unchanging awareness or consciousness behind your thoughts—are still here, the freer and more at ease you are…
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