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Hi there,

I thought i'd share my morning meditation with you all.

I got up at 4;50 AM and did some Hatha Yoga, nice and slowly for a change, then

I sat to meditate. As I was sitting there I noticed how the mind was jumping

from here to there as it always does, but I also noticed the space of silence in

the background. Now I'm a firm believer that our experience of meditation and

indeed life is all rooted on our attention, our interest, our love. When we are

so in love with our dramas, it is no wonder we struggle so hard in meditation.

So when i saw that silence I gave it my full attention. I said I'm holding on to

you with everything I've got. Now the mind did its thing again and again, but

each time i came back to that silence, the thoughts became less and less,and the

silence expanded more and more. Then i noticed that when we think of our dramas,

we become the person to whom the dramas apply, we take on the roles that we are

attached to. It was so simple and so clear, but when I held onto the silence

there was no role and no person, the!

re was just a sense of beingness, an awareness of awareness. When I realised

this my experience of the silence expanded even more, i noticed this blissful

state coming over me, and growing stronger and stronger by the moment. It was

the most blissful meditation I've had in ages and after one hour I didn't want

to come out, and what's more I want to go back in.

The teaching for me was just keep watching the silence and stay with it, watch

yourself becoming the person and let it go, you are not the person, you are

That.

During my day I tried to stay focused on the silence and I did what I had to do

like it was someone else doing it.

The witness is the goal fellows, there is no future goal in this path, you can

get it right now. Be the witness and give up everything else. You will find that

everything gets done, just perfectly, and there's no need for you to become the

person.

We only become the person when we desire or when we fear, but who desires and

who fears? Who am I?

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Mario Laing