This is one of five audios we are posting daily. These ‘reports from the edge’ were recorded last summer during Andrew Cohen’s Being and Becoming Retreat in Tuscany, Italy. They will give you a taste of what you can expect if you attend the upcoming Being and Becoming Retreat to be held in August in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA.
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What a masterful, simple explanation by Andrew on how to meditate, through having no relationship to our experience. And the reason we should learn to do this is to have a fresh and ever new relationship to life. Very simple and profound, the foundation of Evolutionary Enlightenment!!
What’s so great about this clip is that Andrew is not telling us how to meditate but why – why it’s so important to meditate: because, thereby, we become empowered and the possibility of liberation, then, lies literally in our own hands!
This orientation to experience can be an incredibly freeing practice, and Andrew lays it out very clearly. However, I have found that with some aspects of my own experience (not all – specifically, emotional states), the only way I have been able to free myself from them is by adopting an even fuller identification with them, rather than having no relationship. They seem to require a kind of deeply felt ‘recognition’ in order to be transcended most efficiently. Otherwise some just never go away. Once I do really ‘feel’ them, though, and if they do arise again, an orientation of no relationship is all that is required. I wonder if this has been anyone else’s experience?
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