Time to time I get emails from folks on a variety of things. Those things that I wish to share and/or ponder later I throw here. Here is simply another one of those snippets. Something to think about and ponder.
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Number One:
THE WAY OF MAHA ATI
BY CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes onto oneself.
This produces a tremendous energy which is usually locked up in the processes of mental evasion and generally running away from life experiences.
Clarity of awareness may in its initial stages be unpleasant or fear inspiring. If so, then one should open oneself completely to the pain or the fear and welcome it. In this way the barriers created by one's own habitual emotional reactions and prejudices are broken down.
When performing the meditation practice one should get the feeling of opening oneself out completely to the whole universe with absolute simplicity and nakedness of mind, ridding oneself of all “protecting” barriers.
Don't mentally split in two when meditating, one part of the mind watching the other like a cat watching a mouse.
One should realize that one does not meditate in order to go deeply into oneself and withdraw from the world.
... complete openness of mind is still the keynote.
