| Zen meditation is the path of awareness. You are | | | | impossible. |
| about to learn how to attain witness consciousness, | | | | You simply watch it arise and disappear without |
| how to be free from desire and how to tell the | | | | grabbing hold of it. |
| difference between witnessing a thought versus | | | | So you see, in Zen meditation, as you learn to |
| getting identified with it. | | | | witness thoughts, you see that thoughts arise and |
| In Zen meditation, you learn to witness thoughts by | | | | disappear on their own. You are not thinking the |
| learning to stop identifying with them. | | | | thoughts, they happen regardless of you. |
| If a thought arises 'I would really like an ice-cream' | | | | In Zen meditation, you discover you are not the |
| and you consider yourself the 'I' in that sentence that | | | | mind; you are the witness of the mind. And it is here |
| wants an ice-cream, that is identification. | | | | you experience witness consciousness. |
| With identification, you are in a dream state. You are | | | | Like walking by a television that is on. You notice the |
| somewhere else besides here. | | | | television and you let it go. You don't sit down and |
| If that same thought arises and you just notice it as | | | | watch it. You do not become engrossed in it. |
| a thought arising, without being involved in the | | | | And if you're really present, you don't even |
| meaning of the thought, that is witnessing. This is | | | | botherlooking to see what program is on. |
| Zen meditation. | | | | It is there, making noise and you are aware of it. |
| The thought arises and disappears and you | | | | And because you are aware of it, what noise it is |
| remainpresent and watching. | | | | making does not affect you. |
| In this you see the thought that you want an | | | | You remain as awareness and the nature of |
| ice-cream arose on its own. You did not want an | | | | awareness is bliss. |
| ice-cream, the desire arose on its own and you either | | | | This is the essence of Zen meditation and how to |
| identified with it or you witnessed it. | | | | enter witness consciousness. Learn how you can |
| So if you want to be free from desire, you don't | | | | take your meditations to a whole new level by |
| bother trying to stop the desire from arising. That is | | | | clicking the link below. |