animal mind and non-meditation
The instructions for non-meditation are: no effort, no technique.
To elaborate on that, this is a tweet I've made several times:
'Meditate like an animal. Don't TRY. Just BE. Just sit there, innocently and naturally.'
You might think that that wouldn't even be 'meditation'. Hence the term, 'NON-meditation'.
The 'meditative mind' could also be called 'animal mind', because the quality of the meditative mind is very similar to the mind of an animal.
A few characteristics of an animal's mind are:
- non-resistance
- effortless and natural
- allowing of connection to Source and divine nature
- lets thoughts and feelings come and go on their own, innocently and naturally
- simple being, free, at peace
- naturally free of conflict and mental manipulation
The practice of non-meditation is one way to develop animal mind.
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