Not Too Tight And Not Too Loose

Some people need to focus more, and some less. Some people like complexity, others simplicity. Some parts of the world are too relaxed, and others are too intense. We have to balance our focus and energy, and this is where we need the right type of practice.

When we feel too intense … we relax and loosen up.
When we feel too loose … we concentrate.

So doing practices that are invented for one sort of person will not suit another. This is why, when we’re joining a group, we have to be mindful whatever we’re doing and following, otherwise we’ll find ourselves either going up the wall or just going along for the ride. 🙂

Realising the state of our own mind is not a group effort.

Meditation is

– to focus and to relax –

– to concentrate and to let go –

– duality and non-duality –

– twoness and oneness –

– the exoteric and the esoteric.

The balancing of these becomes the unity of the middle way.