Mindful Contemplation

Mindful contemplation

Mindful contemplation is thinking with absolute awareness. When we see something in totality, without any preconceived notions, with detachment, no interpretations and no judgment then the truth is revealed to us. Our true nature surfaces and then we can suddenly let it go. But this is true only when mindful contemplation is complete, not before that.

Our mind is accustomed to breaking and dividing things preventing us from seeing the reality. Whenever we come across something whether a person, a thought, a behavior, a feeling, a situation, almost anything, out mind starts its division, classifying into various categories of good, bad, desirable, undesirable, true, false and what not. We begin to see things in fragments and then we run after what should be and what should not be and we get entangled into these traps. We are being pulled in various directions because of these divisions and we don’t know what to do? We never come to know the true situation as we don’t see it in totality.

Here the technique is to wakefully see the rise of desires, thoughts, feelings within us and contemplate on how it is functioning, how it is affecting our body, what changes it is trying to make, what are the possible reasons for its rise, what has triggered it and so on, without being judgmental as to whether it is good or bad, just study it mindfully and then suddenly leave it.

Mindful contemplation is observation with complete awareness so that things are seen in totality to be able to know the true facts. And then there is no attachment with what we see and you can drop it suddenly. But dropping before that will lead you nowhere and moreover it may not be possible.

When you have seen in totality, when you have seen the truth then even when you respond, the responses will rise from totality and you shall move in the right direction.

Established in totality, when a master acts, there is no one there. Who will get angry? Who will talk? There is only responsiveness, the response of the existence, there is no person. If existential requirement for anger is there, it will come. Whatever is required shall happen through his body mind instrument. I am speaking also because there are people to listen; that is the requirement in the existential drama. When not required, I shall stop. Here only the required responses of totality are reflected.