PRACTICING ‘NO MIND’
During meditation we learn to still the mind. But to carry this meditative state into daily life we may need to practice NO MIND. As we do this we become more sensitive and receptive, and experience more fully and objectively.
Here’s how: when conversing, experience the other person’s words and actions without reacting. Just be still and fully attentive, keeping your mind clear and your heart open. At some point reactive thoughts will come, but hold them off for as long as you can and focus only on listening, taking in the whole person and trying to sense and clearly understand them.
(NO MIND may be practiced during other activities, but for now, just practice it while listening to others.)
As you practice NO MIND, even the most familiar person can be experienced as if for the first time; you can have a better connection with them and have new ‘first’ impressions of them. During NO MIND, living becomes a self-expanding discovery process; true knowing and understanding, as well as love, beauty, uniqueness and joy become more readily available.
Ordinarily, the mind acts as a biased filter screening out much of reality. It defines, compares, judges and reduces reality to mental constructs born of past experience. These keep us from experiencing the wonder of living and from gaining new insights and understandings. So by practicing NO MIND, we can help ourselves overcome these limiting tendencies and experience reality more freshly, clearly, fully, deeply and truthfully.
The practice of NO MIND is a living meditation. It frees us to access authentic intuitive intelligence and allows a new level of awareness and consciousness to take hold. To move to a higher level of self, practice NO MIND.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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