TF: That brings a certain freedom.
JW: Yes, the relative freedom of, “ I’m willing to feel whatever I’m feeling. I’m
willing to experience whatever I’m experiencing.” I sometimes call this “applied
presence”— applying the presence we’ve discovered through meditation to our
felt experience.
TF: In our post-meditation practice.
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JW: Right. This helps to integrate the realization of emptiness— as complete
openness— into our life. With spiritual bypassing, emptiness doesn’t become
integrated with our feeling life. It can turn into a personal dryness where we
can’t actually feel ourselves.