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I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve noticed that the mind can be more or less noisy when you meditate. Although a quiet mind is considered ideal for meditation, it is not required. Michael Langford\u2019s awareness-watching-awareness practice instructions say:<\/p>\n

If you seem to be having a lot of thoughts, ignore them and turn your attention away from the thoughts and towards awareness observing awareness.<\/p>\n

In this case \u201cignore\u201d means, place your attention elsewhere. It does not mean, \u201crepress.\u201d Some applicable synonyms for \u201cignore\u201d are:<\/p>\n

Disregard,\u00a0take no notice of,\u00a0pay no attention to,\u00a0pay no heed to,\u00a0tune out<\/p>\n

Meditation is called \u201cpractice,\u201d because meditation is<\/em> practice. We know our practice is paying off when we notice ourselves disregarding thought in daily life. When we ignore thought, we live from awareness, intuition and spontaneity.<\/p>\n

The Teachings of Inner Ramana<\/em> refers to ignoring thought and living by intuition as \u201cliving from within instead of living from without.\u201d In today\u2019s reading, the Pharisees are a symbol. The Pharisees who are not distracted symbolize living from within. Jesus symbolizes intuition, and the Pharisees who are not distracted are able to hear him. The Pharisees who are distracted symbolize living from without. Their perception is biased and limited by their thoughts. They do not hear Jesus\u2019 message, just as we do not hear intuition when we are caught up in thought. They also do not notice \u201cthe peace beyond the words,\u201d just as we do not notice awareness when thought has our attention.<\/p>\n

Jesus is clear that we are not guilty if we believe our thoughts, even if we act on them. We are not guilty, because consciousness is unaffected. However, believing thoughts and acting on them is the cause of suffering. In NTI Matthew, Judas symbolized the mistake of believing and acting on thought.<\/p>\n

In daily life, it\u2019s important to turn our listening attention inward. It\u2019s important that we learn to disregard thoughts and live from awareness, intuition and spontaneity.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s something to remember from the Mullah Nasruddin story<\/a> about the leaky bucket:<\/p>\n

If you react unconsciously, you push the lesson of the moment away.<\/p>\n

Our bucket leaks when we live from without instead of living from within. It\u2019s as if we put water in the bucket during our morning meditation and contemplation, but then we let it leak out again as we live from thought throughout the day. We are never guilty for this mistake, but it is confusion, the cause of suffering, and an obstacle to truth realization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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