Deprived of Attention, Feelings Subside

Meditation is like coming back to the peace and comfort of home after a long, hard day’s work. In meditation, we come back to our self after being exclusively involved with the drama of experience – thoughts and feelings on the inside; events, circumstances, activities and relationships in the outside world. As we deeply sink into our being, it loses all the qualities it derived from experience – agitation of thoughts, sorrow of feelings, stress of circumstances – revealing its nature of peace and sufficiency. At first, disentangling from experience may take effort. Meditation can be that effort. But once we arrive in the home of our being, there’s nothing else to do. Instead of an action, meditation is just understood and felt to be our natural condition, what we essentially are. Don’t try to stop, change, or discipline thoughts and feelings. Just don’t feed them with your attention. Deprived of attention, they will subside.

From event 12 April, 2012 Live Webinar (167)

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