GETTING A CALM MOMENT

When I pay attention to my breath and my beating heart, I have a very quiet feeling. Most of this time, everything around me is so static, time slows down, and space is suddenly bigger.

Each person has a quiet space within oneself. Planting these quiet seeds, I take care of them daily even for hours and minutes.

How do I take care of them? When the seeds of greed, hatred or fear in the mind have just arisen, I realize that it’s a bad thinking, negative thought, it’s not my own, and it is only a habit originating from the senses and outside scenes which have gathered into one-sided thoughts and perceptions. As I notice they’re the bad seeds, they subside gradually, and I turned my attention to the positive attitude of the mind, such as generosity, kindness, and calm mind, and so on…

In other way, I don't need to dispel or give up the negative thoughts; I just listen to them as same as hearing sadness, and after sadness is a calm and peaceful smile. Have you ever heard the sound of waves, one wave after another so massively? You can't stop the waves from hitting each other; no matter how much you scream up or do anything to dispel the waves to their sounds, to me, looking at it, listening to the pulse of the waves like the sounds of my heartbeat, I understand that I’m not them (waves) but not separation from them. Looking at the inner waves of the mind, I notice that negative thoughts are not me, also there is no increase in awareness of them, and so delusions are no longer lasting, at this time is a state of emptiness of mind like a glass of clear water, no ripples.

When I sit still and stay in present, especially in state of calmness, everything around also becomes quiet. Like the reflection of pure water, the space of mind is clearer and quieter. This is the time I am completely free to follow my heart, listen to my inner voice in the silence and peace most clearly.

TNTQ