Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Reality is going to come in, it’s going to hit your blockages, and your mind is going to talk about it. Fine, be that as it may—you don’t have to listen. It’s that simple. If you know your mind doesn’t know what it’s talking about, why listen?

At this point you no longer experience yourself as human—you experience yourself as a being of energy.

Eventually you will realize that the emotion itself is not the problem—the problem is you’re not able to handle the emotion.

This is the place from which you are noticing the inner commotion, and this place is still, quiet, and there are never any storms. That is the seat of Self. You don’t find your way back to Self—you simply cease to leave. If you work on this, you will come to a beautiful state within that is always there for you. It is a place of refuge, and all you

There will be time you never had before, between the event and your reaction to it. Things start to unfold as if in slow motion—even reactive thoughts and emotions. This gives you time to relax and let go.

These impressions that stay stuck in the mind are called samskaras in yogic science.

You must be able to withdraw your attention from the mind, even when the mind is talking. The easiest way to do this is to pay attention to something else. One very common meditation technique is to pay attention to your breath.

You don’t surrender the outside world—you totally accept it. What you surrender is your personal, made-up judgment of it.

To free yourself, the moment you notice disturbance, let go. Don’t wait until that initial disturbance takes over your mind. You are perfectly aware that you’re beginning to get upset before you actually get upset. You feel it. You feel when something starts to bother you. If you want to grow spiritually, that’s the moment when you do the work.