Meditation - Two lines of Letting Go that have been personally helpful .....

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1. See yourself as sitting on an open air platform at the very front

of a locomotive, eyes facing forward, legs dangling over the edge,

all that can be heard is the quiet rhythmic sound of the piston

throbbing of the engine. You're being carried along the straightest

rail track ever built. Your view is unbroken, unswerving and

stretches ahead forever and ever, as the far horizon melts into the

heat haze. There are no interruptions, no reality checks. Time and

place become un-signposted - and you merge into the infinite chasm of

the unknowable and its limitless potential. Now, only silence and the

incoming suction of changelessness remain.

 

2. You're looking with ambivalence into a blank canvas, all that the

closed eyes will permit you to see. So the mind conscripts intensity

to build ferocity of focus. But the inner space sees the futility,

groans and contorts as if pleading that " more is less " . " Please let

the streaming cease! " . A deeply felt need demands that the mind's

receptors should no longer feel as if they are being trodden down

like grass under footballers' feet. Intuitively there is a need to

effortlessly hold on to nothingness without running from the

sensation of loss of identity, an outcome at which the mind emotively

points its threatening finger. But, persevering with free float, the

grip loosens on the reins of the here-and-now. Still, like a punch

drunk fighter, the mind again lashes out accentuating heightened

vulnerability which sees the acrobatics on the rafters of the mind

rush into play. Indeed, the legs of the mind can become like those of

a centipede searching for traction, as the panic of loss is replaced

by a striving for recovery. But holding on to nothingness for

increasing periods of time, allows the walls of the shaft of

perception in the mind to become wider and deeper. The focus is

suddenly fragmented into an unmapped, stream of awareness, devoid of

cultural relevance, agenda and purpose. The mind floats in perfect

balance with its most subtle antennae open to energy streams from all

directions. With wisdom from that inner space, you kick off and

downwards with trust and surrender. As the body capitulates,

relaxation of muscle and bone slide seamlessly into lowered

breathing, pulse and responsiveness. The randomness of thought

intrusion is gone. The journey can now begin.....