Awakening To Our Enmeshment

We don’t realise how deeply enmeshed we are in concepts – even righteous ones – where we feel morally right or justified. This what we are seeking liberation from. Our relative reality (the way we relate to everything, creating our behaviour) obscures our absolute reality (pure consciousness).

Meditation is our home base, where there are no concepts; we are just happy to be. All attachments, including to meditation, are dropped. Meditation is the practice of letting go and restoring fine energies that have been usurped by gross energies used to enhance the feeling of me, me, me. 🙂 We all do this.

The real practice is in daily life, in how we interact with others through our conduct. Others bring our deeply-enmeshed concepts to the surface, exposed in our inner reactions. It’s truly uncomfortable.

That very discomfort is our precious teacher,
and a wonderful moment of realisation
– once we become familiar with it.

However, this discomfort does hit our button of self-preservation. It’s normal … for a reptilian brain – fight, flight or freeze. 😀 The practice is becoming used to this feeling rather than pretending it’s not there. Our reactions are merely a residue from memories.

The generous feeling is that everyone has these reactions. We’re nothing special. Now we have a chance to experience the relief of acceptance and traverse the path of the realised ones. That acknowledgement makes life truly fruitful.

Our real practice is in our interaction with others,
which is far more practical than
chanting mantras, waving vajras or theories of emptiness.