The Buddha Project Reply To: Y2Q4) Meditating with oneself
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I understand it as follow: first, after having taking a comfortable position, to carefully observe (the so-called meta-awareness) wat is going in inside of myself.
Both in the body and in the mind and, if necessary, make adjustments.
Instead of being ‘forgetfull’ and go with everything that comes up:
the neighbours that are talking loud in the garden and then think: grrrrr, they shoudn’t do that! They disturb my meditation.
Or making my shoppinglist for tomorrow.
Or not seeing when I am becoming sleepy……
Instead of all these things, seeing it and remember/knowing what I was doing and how to bring the mind back to the meditationobject.