Medidtations Day 2

So today was a 30 minute meditation, pretty good today actually, I used some candles and some inscents and I think it got the ball rolling.

While meditating, some thoughts arose, and one of them was about good and bad, and our perception of them.  In this case it was in the form of a sensation.  In the buddhist meditation that I am practicing we let thoughts rise and fall as they will but are still mindful to stay present.  This practice involes not liking or disliking anything, instead to become the feeling or sensation fully by staying present, not discerning good or bad.  Well while I was meditating an annoying sensation sensation came on the left side of my mouth.  At first I thought it could've been a bug but most likely it was just an itch or some kind of irritation.  So instead of swiping at it or moving, I became comepletly still and started to relax into this sensation, and let it be.  Then I even got to the point where I started to feel it fully, to become every nook and cranny of what it was I was feeling, and you know what?  It really wasn't that bad, dare I say pleasing in an intense sort of way.  It eventually began to feel like a tickle and I found myself almost smiling.  Now would I go around putting itching powder on my face or desiring this sensationg, probably not; But the whole thing is that a large part of our suffering and disapproval is because of our interputation of a situation or thing.

I'm sure we've all got situations in our life where something's happening that we don't necessarily want to, and if you can get youself out of that situation then you should, ultimately suffering isn't necssary.  But if you can't get youself out of it, try and look at the situation as an experience. Become that experience good or bad, stay present in that experience, try and see it as the rise and fall of Samsara, of form, becuase that 's what it really is. This world isn't really, atleast not as we percieve it. We're all just ants putting on hats and coats and gloves acting like like things are important, and I'm sure they are to us, but ultimately not.  I am not saying anything new but just remember to stay present everyone, this is your primary purpose, and then move like the wind.

I hope this has helped someone, thanks for letting me share.


-Rey