Gap Between Our Thoughts

Transcript

The other day I was talking to my monk friend.

I said to him I have had some luck in recent months with lucid dreaming but now I’m at a point where I wonder which direction should I take it? What should I explore?

I’ve had a few lately but haven’t been writing down goals for my lucid dreams, which is something quite important to remind yourself that there’s a specific goal or activity in a lucid dream. To explore the gateway to the inner self as Robert Waggoner put it.

My monk friend said “why don’t you try meditation in your dreams” and I thought recently when I tried to get back into dreaming that was my main focus and I made some progress with it because there was certain things I needed to overcome to maintain the stability of the dream.

I would sit down too fast in the dream or I would look for the perfect spot to meditate before sitting down.

After 4-5 lucid dreams I sat down and started to meditate.

And in that moment I considered that I never thought about what type of meditation I should use.

Of course if I were to focus on my breath that wouldn’t be appropriate because I was focusing on my body and it resulted in me waking up.

I ended up using mantras which is interesting. I used a couple I have and I felt the power of them it was very interesting.

I asked my meditiaton friend for what kind of technique would be appropriate.

He said I like to use this technique. Waiting for the gap between the thoughts.

And I thought about that later. I thought about the opening sutras of the Yoga sutras.

Sdasdads which means union is the control of the fluctuations of the mind.

Sensation of the fluctuations of the mind.

What happens or might happen if we could get go of our thoughts for a moment?

What might we find in the gap between our thoughts?

In fact that is a technique that my friend taught me many years ago. He said there are kinds of spontaneous meditation. Ways we can meditate throughout our day.

For example if we try to tell someone something and our mind goes blank that’s not a bad thing. That’s an opportunity.

Drawing the blank we enter into that gap between our thoughts.

The cool thing about practicing this as a technique in seated meditation not in this mental blank scenario.

Cool thing is maybe there are probably a lot of thoughts crossing your mind. Songs stuck in your head, things about the day still thinking about all of it is absolutely fine.

This is a cool thing about every type of meditation but I’ll point it out here.

The thoughts interrupt or repeat, keep going and that is absolutely fine because all we’re doing is watching and waiting for the gap.

It might appear the first time we do this or the hundreth.

We don’t have to be in any rush.

Just watch, patiently waiting to see that moment, when it arises. The gap between our thoughts.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for looking for the gap between your thoughts to find what kind of peace might lay there for you to enhance your life.

Thank you.