The World Comes to You by Michael Stone

Author:Michael Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows.

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FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR LIFE

Most of us are not deeply in love with our lives. We’re observers and we’re still trying to get better—be a better lover, a better meditator, with a better job, a better body, etc. If that’s our attitude, then the whole of spiritual practice becomes a self-improvement project. Then we miss what is at the heart of it.

Rather than constantly trying to get somewhere, we can open instead to things as they are. To become more intimate with present experience is to fall in love with life. Start by just observing the breath. Once you can do that, move from simply observing or witnessing the breath, to feeling breathing. When you feel the breath, then the observer begins to fade away, and then there is just breathing. It is so intimate that there is no me far away saying, Oh yeah, there I am doing it so well. I’m so spiritual…. When you can do it with your breath, then you can begin to practice this technique of intimacy with other phenomena, such as frustration. Whatever it is, you get closer to it—rather than shutting off, numbing out, or distracting yourself.

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