Date:08/24/2024 08/25/2024
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Sitting Meditation
From Conceptualization to Direct Experience
Direct experience marks a shift from thinking about reality to touching it directly through awareness in the present moment.
1. What Is This Shift?
It is the movement from understanding through thought to knowing through immediate perception.
2. Foundations
1.Letting go of explanation: Pausing mental labeling.
2.Returning to the body: Using sensation as entry.
3.Present awareness: Staying with what is.
4.Reducing comparison: Dropping judgments.
5.Allowing experience: Letting it unfold.
3. Significance
1.Greater authenticity: Less filtered experience.
2.Direct clarity: Fewer mental layers.
3.Inner steadiness: Less conceptual drift.
4.Stable practice: Fewer belief swings.
5.Emergent insight: Wisdom from experience.
4. Practice
1.Body awareness: Feel touch and weight.
2.Breath awareness: Sense in-and-out.
3.Mind awareness: Notice thoughts without commentary.
4.Silence language: Pause inner speech.
5.Return now: Come back when drifting.
5. Notes
Are concepts eliminated?
No—temporarily set aside.
Conclusion
This shift grounds practice in reality, strengthening clarity and stability.
