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THE PATH TO AWAKENING
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Stopping the Thinking Machine
As we saw while practicing the Shamatha Path meditation: It is very difficult to stop the flow of our thoughts for more than a few seconds.
We are, in a way, thinking machines: our mind constantly analyzes, anticipates, and imagines.
This ability is of course precious, but it becomes overwhelming when our mind can no longer find rest.
In parallel, our lives are punctuated by many obligations: work, family, success, money, or social relationships.
In trying to reconcile everything, we end up saturated. This is when stress insidiously settles into our already overfilled lives.
Our mind then becomes even more active: we worry about the future or ruminate on the past, which maintains a state of constant tension.
Let us recall here that our Western lifestyles greatly complicate the task. Not only do we rush in all directions, but we are stuffed with noise, music, stimuli, emotions, information... All of this poisons our existence.
In these conditions, how could our mind calm down?
Shutting the Machine down
There are many steps before coming into contact with the tranquility of the Mind.
First, we will need to calm the mind. To do this, we will apply several remedies:
Reconnect to the present moment.
Stop filling ourselves with thoughts and emotions.
Prevent our thoughts from turning into reasonings and then into concepts.
No longer pay attention to the flow of our residual thoughts.
Learn to manage our negative emotions.
Once we have calmed our mind, we will then need to learn to:
Welcome silence.
Tame the emptiness that connects us all to each other.
Understand that there is no danger in remaining in emptiness.
⭐ To help you practice, targeted exercises are provided at the end of this module.
