Sunday, May 23, 2010

Day Two Hundred and Seventy four

Considering the importance of separating awareness and feeling. I have a pleasant feeling in meditation, and it is easy to want it to continue. I hardly even notice the underlying desire to continue, and perhaps an aversion to the feeling ending. But when will I separate awareness from these feelings? At some point when I need to because I am in great pain? That is too late. Now is the opportune time to do so, but it is difficult. I know I must do so by bringing awareness closer to the subject at hand. That is what defines awareness, helps it to stand out; the description of the attachment. Not to describe a 'pleasant feeling' but to describe the process that is taking place. To do so I also experiment with dropping the feeling, letting go of it. I find a more neutral feeling occurring. There I learn, watching closely how feeling changes. That informs me as to the craving that arises in such a very subtle way.

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