Effortless Awareness!!!

This morning, I read from Dr. Thynn Thynn’s book “Living Meditation, Living Insight” - the section on “Peace-Mind”: which says that the peaceful mind is always there, so no effort is required to create it. The same is true of pure awareness.

This helped me while I was playing (weddings) today. Recently, I’ve been more active in “bringing the mind back” to playing, focusing, etc. Inspired by the Dr.’s writings, and also in a more laid-back state because of having a really long day of gigs yesterday, and wanting to relax because it’s Labor Day, there were moments when I just relaxed playing. I still focused on the playing (and came back to it again and again after getting momentarily lost in thought or distracted by something happening in the crowd, etc.), but, when I focused on playing, I just allowed this natural, innate awareness to be! It was like coming back, but then, just being open.

Much better feeling - relaxed, happy! And the awareness was more open and flowing: when there were distractions, they were perceived without any upset, and the coming back to playing happened quickly and smoothly!

This awareness is always here! It can be depended on! There’s nothing to do to “make it happen”! So we can do what we’re doing, being right here, in a very relaxed and open way!

Let’s do it some more! More to come...