Short on Meditation - January 2023

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Hi, my name is Laurent today I wanna talk with you about meditation

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for a short while and mostly about the engaging with the practice of getting

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present to what there is and nothing else.

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Cuz that's what meditation is about for me it is the daily, most of the time a

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daily practice where I'm learning to with what's here, what's now, and nothing else.

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There are multiples techniques and multiple way, multiple ways I have

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learned along the years to, um, develop one aspect or the other of, uh, my

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meditation practice and enhancing capacity of my mind to concentrate and

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to be with what's here in front of me.

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But ultimately, what this is about is, um, a daily reconnection or

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opportunity to simply be here without anything to do or anywhere to go.

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It's a practice of allowing myself to not achieve, not accomplish,

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not think, not deepen, but rest.

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It's a practice of resting and relaxing and from there,

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concentration, contemplation can manifest or can emerge, but at the

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start it's a practice of allowing

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The first line of my teacher is: Leave everything alone.

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When I'm sitting and I'm learning to sit, I'm mostly learning to leave

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everything alone, myself included.

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Imagine what your life would be if you were learning to leave

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yourself alone, things alone, people alone, as in let them be.

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Let yourself be.

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What's possible from here?

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That's it for now.

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Thank you for listening, and as always, let's stay in conversation.