Journling entry…after meditation sitting practice…            2-12-2011

 Reading sentence by sentence and following the recipe as it is prescribed…using  The Joy of Being, page 44: Awakening Feelings…starting the sitting meditation practice…

 Following the instruction and lingering after each sentence, to feel it in my bones in my experience…experience becoming more powerful as things unfolded….of melting into the feelings (as the prescription suggested)… my feeling was initially of a discomfort/fatigue , mild pain in the center of my back, where my shoulder blades meet, as I let go and melted in that pain… slowly a serenity that kept shifting in intensity… and approaching “much bigger than the pain” arose… so pronounced as it unfolded, that the pain was almost powerless and further melted into the tranquil feeling that was arising…then (following the prescription suggested) it was so easy and possible to allow thoughts come and go as they pleased, and not get pulled into them…as if they were doing their silly dance… while the calmness’ presence was so powerful and pronounced that no thought had a chance to complete or linger…its story…Just as the sounds also arouse and disappeared while the quiet silence was always in the background, silent, yet its presence undeniable and the center of the stage…

Thank you Rinpoche…. It became possible to experience the communication of ‘field communiqué’ with all of its assertion of substantiality (through the thoughts and sounds…) yet simultaneously, with the pronounced presence of calm (as  surrendering and melting into the feelings that were arising and slowly shifting within my body and mind…

It became possible to rest in the self-sameness of all that was communicated in my experience in this short sitting practice…

Thank you Jack for deciphering, and guiding us through these teachings that are profound and are true treasure…