Stop that impulse!🔗

TECHNIQUE & INSTRUCTIONS

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Stopping is not concerned with physical activity alone.

You can just as easily stop an impulse, a desire, an involuntary action or feeling.

Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop.

When you are miserable, if you are crying – then in the middle of that crying, command yourself – Stop! You will be surprised to see how easily you can stop! You just stop, that's all.

Even a sneeze that is coming up, uncontrollable, irresistible, can be simply stopped halfway.

When you are angry, so angry that you want to hit the other person or break something, just stop.

If you suddenly see your child, your wife, your friend, if you feel a sudden impulse to give them a hug - just stop.

What happens when you just stop?

There is an energy flowing outward from you, towards the object of your attention. Even when you are talking, walking, your attention, your energy, is always flowing outwards to other objects, other people. Your attention is your energy.

When you suddenly stop the outflow of the energy, what happens to it? It flows back into you. Your energy, your attention, moves suddenly inward. Once again, you are thrown back into your silent center.

Once you have glimpsed this center, you will never lose yourself in activity again. Even as you are doing, you will be constantly aware of being. You will touch your inner silence, you will become aware that all activities are simply ripples on the surface. This is the mood of perpetual meditation.