I am Home - Aimlessness

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What is it like to sit in Aimlessness?

Objective: To just BE and know you are home.

Why this is Important

• Above all, Aimlessness is not about trying or accomplishing.  It's about BEing right here, right now.  Peace and Happiness grow here.

How Do We Get There?

• • Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing

Steps 1. and 2.   In - Out *1

Steps 3. and 4.    Whole Body - Calm *1

• • Emptiness

  • Aimlessness

  • Experiencing Meditation

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Aimlessness Defined

Thay defined it as:

"The third door of liberation is aimlessness. Aimlessness means you don’t put anything in front of you as the object of your pursuit. What you are looking for is not outside of you; it is already here. You already are what you want to become. Concentrating on aimlessness releases your longing and craving for something in the future and elsewhere." Source: Lion's Roar and is attributed to Thich Nhat Hanh from 31, March 2022 in an article entitled, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Doors of Liberation.

Aimlessness

"You are enough" is another way of defining Aimlessness.  You don't need to become more or less to realize peace and happiness.  It's already intrinsically within you.

Reflect back the Meadow mediation.  Did you have such a feeling or experience?

Because of Interbeing, you can experience everything in one single breath.  Reflect back to some of our earlier mediations.  Remember how you didn't want to move when a meditation concluded.  The experience felt so complete.  You didn't want anything.  You didn't need anything.  Just BEing there was everything you ever wanted or needed.  You felt complete.  You were happily content.  In this moment, you were immersed in Aimlessness.  

Back to the Meadow

From the perspective of the flower, there was a birth and a death.  From the whole meadow perspective, there were many births and deaths.  Birth was the result of death.  Birth and death were just states of interbeing in the meadow, states of life.  This is the No Birth No Death of emptiness.   Empty of self and full of the whole meadow.  If you were able to let go enough, you felt a deep sense of peace about the meadow.  Within that peace was aimlessness.

Intellectual and the Experienced

All the above words and descriptions are intellectual.  Clearly, they have their purpose; however, meditation offers us an Experience.  We can define Aimlessness as "you are enough" and you can reflect back to those mediations of being happily content.  "You are enough" is definitely apart of the content experience but there's more to it than that.  You know this because you have experience it.

If your friend has never ridden a roller coaster and you explain the experience, your friend will know intellectually about it but she will not now know the experience.  After her first time on a coaster, she may not have words to describe the experience.  All she may say is "WOW".  The experience was so new that it's still abstract in her thinking.  After time and riding it again, the experience will become more familiar and the experience will become concrete in her mind.  Then she will be able to describe the experience with detail.  Meditation can be like this too.  The experienced insight may be so new that it'll be abstract to you.  Give it time to grow in your meadow and you'll begin to understand it more.  Savor the experience.  : )

Be Curious

Spend time getting to know the peace and contentment.  Rest in it.  Be curious about it.  Ask questions about it and go find the answers within it.  It is your true home.  What is like to be home?

Let's BE in Aimlessness

Recall a memory when you didn't want to end a meditation.  Invite yourself to return to that peace and contentment. 

Meditation's Audio

16 mins w/ bells at 2 mins.

In  -  Out

Calm  -  Ease

Smile  -  Release

Present Moment  -  Wonderful Moment

Enjoy the Peace within my in Breath  -  Share the Peace with my Whole Self

Be the Peace of the Moment  -  I am Home

Be in the Contentment of the Moment  -  I am Home

Just Be and Smile  -  I am Home

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