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o fidget. If we are able, we do not react to these impulses, no matter how uncom
fortable they may become.
We notice thoughts vying for our attention. Telling us what a waste of time this
is and how stupid we're being. Telling us we have to check an e-mail, or to cal
l a friend, or to play a videogame. We notice an abundant cornucopia of internal
distractions screaming at us for any piece of our attention, anything to preven
t us from simply sitting still and observing.
We notice ourselves being dragged into memories of the past, or dreams of the fu
ture.
There is nothing you can do to fight this. There are no techniques, no exercises
.
If you are drawn outside of the observer state, the practice is no longer intent
ional. You become again what you've always been. A powerless figment of attentio
n dragged along by impulses you have no say in and no power over.
It is simply willpower. You have it or you don't.
But you can cultivate it. But your mind will fight you. You will forget to medit
ate. You will remember to meditate but will suddenly think "this is not the righ
t place" or "this is not the right time" or "I'm not in the mood right now".
And once you realize how hard it is, you will either give up, or you will become
frustrated. And that frustration will drive you to try again. And again. And ag
ain. Until you refuse to hear 'your' mind say that now is not the time, or the p
lace, or the mood.
Until you do sit still.
Until you do remain attentive.
Until you refuse to let yourself get dragged into distraction and forgetfulness.
Until you do not react to the discomfort, or the thoughts, or the unpleasant emo
tion, or the excuses your mind keeps repeating, because you just want to prove t
o yourself that you can do it, that you are not simply an unwilling slave in you
r own body.
Until you see all your thoughts and you acknowledge them but are not distracted
by them. They are there, and then they are not.
Until you experience all your emotions, even and especially those you had not be
en able to see before, and you acknowledge and accept them but do not feed the f
lame further.
Until the mind stops.
And then, and only then, there is meditation.