I am by myself tonight. I have been with friends and family and my sweetheart this weekend. At first I let the memories grow with some sense of sadness or regret, but then I treat them evenly; they were good times, and they have a tendency to come back, and of course go again and again.
They are sort of neutral, perhaps like all experiences, but I treat them with more of a charge than they have. I try to see my experiences with a little less of a historic charge. An experience now can be defined in terms of history, what I know about the experience or about similar things of which it is a set, without holding tight to an investment in things being one way or another.
If the time with others is funny, happy, and sweet, I can feel it and ask "how can these experiences help me to apply myself to the practice of release?" If experience is negative, I can ask the exact same question. The answer is that by stripping the attachment to any particular experience benefitting or harming me, I feel it without letting it take me away. I am actually much more with the experience.
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