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When is Empty Beautiful?

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When is empty beautiful?
When it’s the space experienced through meditation.

For many persons engaging in a meditative practice, one aims is to experience that beautiful space - where thoughts cease and there remains just the empty quietness allowing for the subconscious to rise and expand. I compare it to the opening of a beautiful flower, from a tiny bud to full bloom with this full bloom being the space for the subconscious.

For some, reaching this state is not an easy feat. The ego-mind is asked to take a back seat for a while and be quiet. The ego-mind does not like to be quieted and the more one tries to actively quiet it, the more resistance it puts up until the meditator concedes to it in frustration.

I came upon a trick some time ago that helps me to get into that space using less time, I cut a deal. I allow the ego-mind to roam as far and as wide as it pleases. I allow it to chatter away. I allow it to do what the mind does, think, plan, and be in charge, and in return, I carve one small space where I meet up with my Higher Self through my subconscious mind. I settle in with that little space and feel quiet and peaceful even as the mind goes ten miles a minute. Here is where the trick is, once the mind realizes that it can do as it pleases, the fun ceases. It does not enjoy it anymore and it simply slips away and my subconscious is allowed to expand and revel in the entire space. It works every time.

I have read many times where the writer explains how to meditate by saying, “stop the wandering thoughts”. They never explain how because they cannot. The mind will do what the mind does. There is no stopping of thought by the person until the mind itself chooses to.

So for me, mind has not caught on to this trick as yet and I hope it doesn’t in the near future.