Practising Mindfulness

Category: Human Condition

  • Start as you Mean to Go On

    Consider how things would feel if you started a relationship as companions and just waited to see how things worked out

    Relationships have always been a tricky business. We’re often left guessing as to someone’s intentions, integrity and desires. We might try certain types of manipulation and gameplay in order to gain this information. We might try to control behaviour and outcomes. All part of the human condition.

    At the beginning of a relationship if someone had stated: “what I want right now is companionship and an open mind”, I’d of either run a mile, or been intrigued

    We can easily envisage a long term relationship evolving into a beautiful companionship, and so what I’m suggesting, is that we think about forming this kind of relationship before anything else. Think about how all the gameplay, manipulation and fear, has long since dissolved from a relationship that is purely based on our human need for companionship. How beautiful would it be if we started in that place?

  • The Calmest of Minds

    Nirvana can be understood

    I want you to imagine a state of mind that sits between thoughts. Imagine a moment where time has stopped. Imagine a moment where there is simply no desire to be doing anything other than what is currently happening. There is a sense of stillness.

    The silence is the result of there being no friction, no resistance. Total absorption in the present moment

    It involves an understanding of what you’ve been seeking all your life. You’ve been seeking this sense of calm but looking in the wrong direction. You’ve been seeking answers and solutions instead of acknowledging what your mind has been showing you for years. It is already what you are; where you are. Let go and allow your mind to show you now.

    Ask yourself what your mind has been showing you that is beyond craving, desire, needs, or wants

    Don’t be fooled into thinking this is complicated. In fact, it’s the simplicity that can catch us out. There are layers of deceit and lies that we must cut through to get to the truth. It’s all the clutter associated with the human condition. The lust for power. The need for control. It involves none of these things. What it does involve is the understanding that the human condition is exactly that: a condition. A state of conditioning.

    At the centre of our being, there is a place devoid of conditioning. Devoid of the human condition of seeking power and control. Let these things go, and nirvana will be within your reach.