You are now limiting your sensory input. This is good.
Now, begin listening to your breathing. Focus on your breath. Especially, listen to your
breathing in. Listening to your Self stops you from listening to everything else. This is when
great ideas come. When you listen to your in-breath, you are listening to your inspiration.
Oh, my God, how do You do that? How do you keep coming up with stuff like that?
Shhh. Be quiet. Stop thinking about this!
Now, focus your inner vision. For once you have inspiration, it will bring you great “in-sight.”
Focus this insight on the space in the middle of your forehead, just above your eyes.
The so-called Third Eye?
Yes. Place your attention there. Look deeply there. Don’t look expecting to see something.
Look at the nothing, at the no-thing. Re with the darkness. Do not strive to see anything.
Relax, and be content with the peace of emptiness. Empty is good. Creation cannot come
except into the void. Enjoy, then, the emptiness. Expect nothing more, want nothing more.
What do we do with all the thoughts that keep popping up? N/lost people are lucky to get
three seconds of emptiness. Could You address the issue of all the constant thoughts that
keep popping up—especially for the beginner? Beginners are very frustrated over why they
can’t silence the mind and get to the nothingness You are talking about. This may be a piece
of cake for You, but it sure isn’t for most of us.
You’re thinking about this again. I invite you to stop thinking about this.
If your mind keeps filling with thoughts, just watch that, make that okay. As the thoughts pop
in, just step back and observe that this is happening. Do not think about it, just notice it. Do
not think about what you are thinking about. Just step back and notice it. Don’t judge it. Don’t
get frustrated by it. Don’t start talking to yourself about it, like, “Well, here we go again! All I
get is thoughts! When do I get to the nothingness?”
You can’t get to the nothingness by continually complaining that you are not there. When a
thought pops in— some extraneous thought about nothing in particular, having nothing to do
with the moment—just notice that. Notice that, and bless it, and make it part of the experi-
ence. Don’t dwell on it. It’s part of the passing parade. Let it pass.
Do the same thing with sounds or feelings. You may notice that you never hear as many
sounds as when you are trying to experience total stillness. You may notice that you never
have as much trouble feeling comfortable as when you are trying to sit totally comfortably.
just notice this. Step back one level and watch yourself noticing this. Include all of this as part
of your experience. But don’t dwell on it. It’s part of the passing parade. Let it pass.
Like the question you asked just now. It’s just a question you had. It’s a thought that popped
in. It’s part of the passing parade. Let it pass. Don’t try to answer it, don’t try to solve it, don’t
try to figure it out. Just let it be there. Let it be part of the passing parade. Then let it pass.
Notice there’s nothing you have to do about it.
In this will you find great peace. What a relief. Nothing to want, nothing to do, nothing to be,
except exactly what you are being right now.
Let go. Let it be.