Unexpected Dissolving of Center

Since the mediation retreat on Sunday, I’ve been practicing doing open awareness before concentration in my sits. Increasing the effort/curiosity on the body is so much more interesting when done from an expansive viewpoint.

This had an unexpected and delightfully trippy consequence today. I finished a set at the gym and while walking to get water… BAM!! —I was the entire room and hallway leading to the water. I was not doing any specific technique during my sets or being particularly mindful, it just happened out of nowhere.

Sitting down to finish my lifting, I shall not reify the experience, but take it as a reminder that the center of self is none other than an idea.

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