As a beginner of meditation, you may feel overcome with your thoughts when practicing. The important thing is not to become caught up in them. Don't be like the weak swimmer who gets swept away by a strong river current. Stand mentally on the bank, and watch the current flow past you. Be calmly observant of the flow, mentally detached from it.

Imagine that the bank on which you stand is situated at the the back of your head. There in fact lies the seat of ego consciousness. From that position, watch your thoughts and feelings flowing by you. Realize, as you watch, that not only your thoughts but your very perception of what is important keeps passing.

Nothing in life, neither your inner thoughts nor your outer circumstances, is firmly fixed. If any thought, feeling, or circumstance seems permanent to you, it is only because it has become snagged, temporarily, on a protruding rock of attachment. In a spirit of freedom, allow the current to release it from the rock.


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