Relaxing Into Meditation

Practice this meditation of letting go of thought for ten minutes every day and you will start to discover the quality of mind when it is no longer dominated and defined by thought.  Thought is a natural process of mind but thought is not the essence of mind.  The nature of mind is spacious.  It is clarity.  As spacious clarity is discovered in meditation it will start to sparkle in everyday life.  Habit patterns lose their power to dominate our responses.  Sensory experience becomes enlivened.

Meditate every day for ten minutes—or longer if you are comfortable—and you will gradually start to find that you are more open, patient, tolerant and kind through the spaciousness of mind you have discovered.  Relax the body, and then take this into meditation to discover relaxation of mind.

This article is excerpted from the book, Relaxing Into Meditation.  Connect with Ngakma Nor’dzin at: http://www.spacious-passion.org