A mental reboot
Last night, friends came over and it ended up being one of those late nights where you are just laughing about the whole shebang – my kind of night. This morning I headed to meditation to sit with myself and practice mind erasing. A friend had gone on my recommendation and it was interesting to see zendo from another’s eyes.
The talk afterwards was about why we sit but also about the delusion of habitual thought. You sit and watch neutrally the repetitions – what pulls your chain, what causes fear, what sources anxiety – what you hold as reality is merely perception and observing from a centered place makes the either/ors less dramatic. “He’s being an asshole to me … he is being who he always is … you perceive him as an asshole … but he’s being him.” This is one example of the habit of the mind to categorize people and places into what we perceive them to be and then repeat and repeat and repeat.
Meditation has been my gateway into connecting with something greater than myself. It’s helped me to realize that the mind is a computer capable of great storage, memory and RAM and we have the power to delete, reformat, and realign and often times it takes adversity to make us aware that our system has been infected and needs a reboot.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
~ Anne Lamott