JUST GIVE IT A TRY

JUST GIVE IT A TRY



1. When you wake up in the morning please don't open your eyes.

Just feel (giving/ focusing attention) the whole body then the bed on which you slept whole night.

Slowly open your eyes look around your body.

Have a feel of the your body parts and the bed with your palm.

Get down from the bed and when your sole touch the floor feel it.

Go to toilet and when sitting in commode have a feel of commode and the floor.

When going to brush pick the brush and have a feel of touch with the brush with finger and inside mouth.

While taking shower feel the touch of water with the body.

While wiping the body with the towel feel the towel.



2. Principle---Break the action you are going to be involved in a no. of part as far as possible and give attention(feel) for every part as much as possible time-wise and intensity-wise.



3. Please do "remember the feeling of touch" even after the action is over in case you were absent at the time of action i.e. some other thoughts were present. Let the thoughts come and go.


"Before or during the action (if possible)", think whether you have a choice to do otherwise than what you are "going to do or doing".



4. Let me clarify what I mean by "whether you have a choice to do otherwise than what you are going" by way of an example.

Suppose you are hungry.

A thought related to this come to your mind. Is not it?

What do you do ? Go for some food to eat.

Suppose after eating you are no more hungry. You are fulfilled now.

The original thought of having some food remains no more there now. Is it not true?

That thought has lost its potency/load so far as affecting your action to take food is concerned.

What happened in this process is that now "you are free from the thought" of having some food. That thought will no more hound you.



5. If you somehow suppose you decided not to take food as you think that you have a choice to do other than taking food. What will happen? The thought of having food will still have the load/potency to affect your action and will be hounding you till that load is not gone by way of taking food. You will not feel free at all from that thought.

6. Hence what I mean by exercising choice is that if you opt for a choice other than what you were "going to do or doing", then you must feel free from the thought of "going to do or doing" earlier.

In this sense my experiences say that you have any choice.



7. Result-(There is possibility but not guaranteed)-- If you are consistent/earnest in approach so far as giving attention to the acts, within a few days or weeks or months a time/moment will come when a sudden/unexpected shift may happen and you will be able to know/realise that "Even without making your effort the acts are being done perfectly as it should have been done in a given circumstances".

Once you get the knack, go on verifying this (Everything is happening on its own effortlessly) fact in all of your activities.

You will be stunned/amazed/puzzled to realise this phenomenon.



8. This will prove to be a clear indication of of "your" non-existence. Hence you are not a doer. Nothing is in your control.You don't have any choice.