“Genuine Human Beings” Meditation

by Presence

It is when the mind is quiet that one is receptive. When there is only receptivity, when one is “waiting and seeing,” just as an athlete in the zone is doing, there is no thought. Everything slows down. Reacting perfectly becomes possible.

From thoughtless-receptivity the most beautiful things will flow effortlessly. …While witnessing a perfect, effortless reaction – that itself is enough to create another quiet mind, as someone else observes this rare state of complete perfection. And it is this blissful silence that the critic experiences upon witnessing such an act, an act which becomes possible in this state of silence – the zone.

So few, the truly intelligent, are aware that we have a far greater purpose. It may or may not be a lot of moments we get, and because of that, those that we do should not be wasted on cultivating attachment.

Success and failure are dualities; one mirrors the other.  They depend on the judgment of the ego; they depend on the attachment to these judgments which alone makes one player superior or inferior to another. Rest in the middle, always between success and failure, a middle state where thinking of either isn’t happening, a state where there is only awareness, where no one individual exists. This is the state of mind of good sportsmanship when it is applied to everyday living, every single moment.