Day 16
Length: 15 minutes (timed)
Start: 11:10pm
Experience:
Wow, today was heavy.
It started with my usual focus on the breath, then I moved into a minor mantra asking for loving kindness for myself and out to the rest of the world. At some point my focus changed...
I was consumed by an intense desire to ponder the barrier between the 'self' and the rest of the world, the lens through which I experience things. I watched a Tedx talk some time last week so it came as a surprise that themes from it arose during practice.
I was laser-focused on that. I considered the age-old bar philosophy question - "Is your blue my blue?" but on grander terms. When my fingertips run across a table, or clothing, what part of that does someone else experience? How would one ever know they have a damaged or incomplete lens?
All things that require conspiratorial responses would be conditioned (beauty, color, temperature, pain). There's already plenty of information on pain tolerances. So many questions!
Closing Thoughts: I see exactly how the thought process arose. My mind seized upon it and would not release - I see it as a movement toward a more right state of mind.
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