Gil: I think what you are saying is very important and is a wonderful addition to what I have said. I can imagine people being oppressed by what I said. They might think, “Now I have to be worried about how to do it right, and I don’t really understand what he is talking about, but the ‘how’ seems to be very important. I have to do some kind of mental gymnastics and get myself into the right ‘how.’ It was a lot easier when it was just a ‘what.’” So if it does not make sense, then, just as she said, this practice is self-correcting. Be content with the “what” and just do the practice. If the practice is paying attention to what is going on, then it is self-correcting.
Sooner or later, if you are paying attention, you will get the evidence and the information that you need to learn, that something is awry, something is off, something needs to be learned or changed or shifted. If your practice does not involve self-awareness as part of it, then it needs some self-correcting. I have known people who have done meditation practices where they were not paying attention to themselves very much. For example, in the Zen tradition sometimes, there is a tremendous effort to concentrate on the breath or just be present in some kind of abstract way.
When they feel a pain in their leg, they ignore the pain and just focus on the breath, and eventually they need knee surgery. It happens sometimes in vipassana that people end up with knee problems, but it does not happen as much as in Zen because we put much more emphasis on a very expansive awareness practice that is aware of everything that is going on at the same time. So if you feel pain in your knee, you bring that into your awareness and you can use that information to correct. Maybe that does not answer your question, but is that enough for now?
Gil: I think what you are saying is very important and is a wonderful addition to what I have said. I can imagine people being oppressed by what I said. They might think, “Now I have to be worried about how to do it right, and I don’t really understand what he is talking about, but the ‘how’ seems to be very important. I have to do some kind of mental gymnastics and get myself into the right ‘how.’ It was a lot easier when it was just a ‘what.’” So if it does not make sense, then, just as she said, this practice is self-correcting. Be content with the “what” and just do the practice. If the practice is paying attention to what is going on, then it is self-correcting. Sooner or later, if you are paying attention, you will get the evidence and the information that you need to learn, that something is awry, something is off, something needs to be learned or changed or shifted. If your practice does not involve self-awareness as part of it, then it needs some self-correcting. I have known people who have done meditation practices where they were not paying attention to themselves very much. For example, in the Zen tradition sometimes, there is a tremendous effort to concentrate on the breath or just be present in some kind of abstract way. When they feel a pain in their leg, they ignore the pain and just focus on the breath, and eventually they need knee surgery. It happens sometimes in vipassana that people end up with knee problems, but it does not happen as much as in Zen because we put much more emphasis on a very expansive awareness practice that is aware of everything that is going on at the same time. So if you feel pain in your knee, you bring that into your awareness and you can use that information to correct. Maybe that does not answer your question, but is that enough for now?
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