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<\/a><\/p>\n\n„What I trust is my awareness. It is something for you to find out for yourselves. You can\u2019t just trust what I say. Anything I describe now is simply an encouragement for you to develop this trust in awareness. This inclusive awareness is very simple and totally natural. The mind stops and you are open and receptive. Even if you\u2019re tense and uptight, just open to it by accepting it and allowing it to be as it is. Tension, despair, pain \u2013 you allow your experience to be exactly as it is rather than try to get rid of it. If you conceive of this openness as a happy state, then you create a mental impression of it as a pleasant state that you might not be feeling and would like to feel. Being in a pleasant state of mind is not a prerequisite for inclusive awareness. One can be in the pits of hell and misery and yet still open to the experience of being aware, and thus allow even the most upsetting states to be just what they are. I\u2019ve found this to be a real challenge, for there are so many mental and emotional states that I don\u2019t like at all. I\u2019ve spent my life trying to get rid of them. From childhood onwards one develops the habit of trying to get rid of unpleasant mental states by distracting one\u2019s attention, doing anything to try and get away from them. One develops so many ways of distracting oneself from feelings such as despair, unhappiness, depression and fear \u2013 one no longer even does so consciously. It becomes habitual to distract oneself from painful experience. The encouragement now is to begin to notice those painful states, even to notice the way one distracts oneself. Inclusive awareness is a state of not really knowing anything in particular. You\u2019re allowing things to be what they are, not the way you think they are or the way you think they should be. You don\u2019t have to perceive them with thoughts or words, or analyze them; you\u2019re simply allowing the experience to be just the way it is. It\u2019s more a case of developing an intuitive sense, what I call \u2018intuitive awareness\u2019. When you can begin to trust in this awareness, you can relax a bit. If you\u2019re trying to control the mind, then you tend to go back to your habits of trying to hold on to some things and get rid of others, rather than just allowing things to be what they are. With intuitive awareness we are taking refuge in awakeness \u2013 which is expansive, unlimited. Thought and mental conception create boundaries. The body is a boundary; emotional habits are boundaries; language is a boundary; words expressing feelings are also boundaries. Joy, sorrow and neutrality are all conditioned and dependent upon other conditions. Through awakening we begin to recognize that which transcends all of this. Even if what I\u2019m saying sounds like rubbish to you, be aware of that. Open to the fact you don\u2019t like what I\u2019m saying. It\u2019s like this. It\u2019s not that you have to like it. It\u2019s starting from the way it is rather than having to figure out what I\u2019m trying to say.“<\/p>\n
Ajahn Sumedho from <\/span>Intuitive Awareness<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n