avuko

Noticed today three states of my mind:

1. “Normal”. Thinking about a subject. It feels narrow.

2. “Daydreaming”. Thinking drifting on random subjects. It feels meandering through a wide space, but the thinking itself is still narrow.

3. “Mindfulness”. Not thinking, but experiencing. It feels wide and open. Certainly not “mind full”. If it is full of anything, it is the direct experience of body and feeling.

#meditation #SecularBuddhism

Mar 13, 2025 at 8:07amWeb
Show threadLoops 🍑  Mar 13, 2025
@avuko Super interesting to hear about, would you say you ever experience 'mind empty' moments, or do those revert into your mindfulness and simply experiencing things?
Show threadavukoMar 13, 2025

@loops hm, good question. I sometimes, rarely really, have “mind empty” moments, but thinking about it (maybe not the most effective approach 😉) I’d say they are usually quickly filled with either direct experience stuff which I feel as “wide mind”, or a new chain of thought starts up.

I’ll see what happens next time I sit.