Frank's Summary

At the beginning of the week I looked at the other posts for inspiration to try something which I hadn't tried before. So I decided on the timelessness version of wh, because that is new to me and so many of you seemed to like it. But how to start? How do you sink into timelessness?? My mind was bit startled at first, but contemplating the phrase: "this moment is fully complete" helped me to get an entry point. Also to contemplate that this moment is not the means to get somewhere else, but itself completely perfect felt revolutionary. Experiencing there is no past or future, except in concepts is remarkable. And I have my serious doubts about the truth of any concepts or thought. Whatever is a thought is not really real.

While doing this I noticed how much of my mental activity is past and future driven. Through this meditation those thought activities occasionally stopped and I was able to sense the quietness of timelessness, where the ripples and undercurrents of time driven thought activity stops. Another of the many Wow's and surprises of the journey. I then worked with timelessness riding on the breath as Piet suggested. It was gentle this time. During the outbreath I dropped into timelessness, and during the in breath I just let go and sometimes the mind contracts back into ordinary thinking, sometimes it just rests in being. I didn't feel motivated to actively engage during the inbreath to stop anything. Sometimes reversing the role of in- and outbreath felt natural. Then the exercise becomes a way of creating space for complete letting go, trusting It and not getting stuck in the process of trying to recreate the mediation experience constantly, even if the effort is a noble one like "timelessness".

Rod's commented about our expressed difficulty of squaring being caught up in daily life and wh practice. I am looking for an easy way out. So here it is. An easy way out is one that leverages the conditioned mind like judo and aligns it with absolute truth, creating "synergies" instead of creating the BIG STRUGGLE. So I forget wh, forget brushing my teeth over and over again, sigh, but is there something I don't forget? Yes, there is: the face of the beloved, when you are falling in love. Every teenager knows that you don't have to remember the face of the lover but the face of the lover remembers you. Thus, the easy and enjoyable way is to kindle a love affair with the truth of one's being or the truth of this moment, or however one wants to put it. Of course this is the devotional streak of many spiritual paths. So how to fall in love with my true nature, will be something I investigate. Any ideas by the peer group will be welcome by this spiritual-teenage WOKer.