The Undercurrent Of Mental Wandering ...

The undercurrent of mental wandering ...

"When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come;

there's no need to regard them as your enemies.

When they arise, relax in their arising.

On the other hand, if they don't arise, don't be nervously wondering whether or not they will.

Just rest in their absence.

If big, well-defined thoughts suddenly appear during your meditation, it is easy to recognize them.

But when slight, subtle movements occur, it is hard to realize that they are there until much later.

This is what we call "namtok wogyu", the undercurrent of mental wandering.

This is the thief of your meditation,

so it is important for you to keep a close watch.

If you can be constantly mindful, both in meditation and afterward,

when you are eating, sleeping, walking, or sitting, that's it - you've got it right!"

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

from the book "Counsels from My Heart"

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"Normally we operate under the deluded assumption that everything has some sort of true, substantial reality. But when we look more carefully, we find that the phenomenal world is like a rainbow — vivid and colorful, but without any tangible existence.

When a rainbow appears we see many beautiful colors - yet a rainbow is not something we can clothe ourselves with, or wear as an ornament; it simply appears through the conjunction of various conditions. Thoughts arise in the mind in just the same way. They have no tangible reality or intrinsic existence at all. There is therefore no logical reason why thoughts should have so much power over us, nor any reason why we should be enslaved by them."

- Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The only trick of friendship is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.

— Hanya Yanagihara

<OPENING TO MESSAGES>

The point is simply that you just keep going. Once you keep going, there will be messages coming to you from the universe about how far you are or are not going.

You don't need to talk to your teacher, particularly; the universe is always very good at giving you messages. Even the weather can give you messages. As long as you are open, you find reference points everywhere.

Once you are willing to open yourself up, to work hard and do something, you will get feedback. You may get very bad feedback or very excellent feedback. If you do not react either badly or excitedly to that feedback, but just keep going, you are beginning to get somewhere.

Chögyam Trungpa - The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion - Shambhala Publications

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