Practice recognition of thought having happened
This is a practice in understanding thought and deliberately creating moments where we realize what’s been happening, such as through the thought labelling exercise here. We are breaking up thought into two categories. We are starting to understand what is happening in us. We are practicing not being bothered by thoughts, through not trying to make them go away. And each note is a little tap into the mysterious well of awakening being. It’s actually going to cause more moments of awakening to happen spontaneously in the future. That’s why I also call this exercise an “energetic adjustment.”
So welcome thought, for this training.
And on a deeper level, you will, more and more, understand that “you” do not make this room or make this space or break from thought. That is not “your” job. Your job is to love when it appears. Your job is to be devoted to the waking part of it. “You” can’t do the other job. This is difficult to understand perhaps, but that is what you will come to understand. And if you already get it, you can get it more and more, deeper and deeper.
The north star has been used for thousands of years to navigate. Keep your eyes on the north star! Things will become brighter and brighter, clearer and clearer.
