I used an old band-aid the other day.
It worked fine,
But my fingers remained sticky for hours after I took it off.
It felt so much freer when it was finally gone.
I could touch things again without that sticky feeling following me around.
Sometimes my mind is also free of all the sticky thoughts that cling to it and make it feel fuzzy.
Can you describe the state of mind that is free from clinging,
Where there is no stickiness,
Nothing grabbing at your mind?
Just like that feeling of stickiness on your fingers and you finally get it off and you can touch things without feeling that stickiness.
When your mind can touch the experience that is coming in from the sense windows without clinging to something else at the same time,
That pure direct experience,
Uncluttered by stickiness to something,
Whether it is a clinging thought of the past or a projected thought of the future.
The stickiness can be a leftover worry,
A concern,
A memory,
Anything which is different from the sense window experiences of sight,
Sound,
Taste,
Touch and smell and even thoughts.
Anything that divides even the slightest amount of your attention away from just seeing,
Hearing,
Smelling,
Touching or tasting.
Can you imagine a pure,
Unsticky experience?
What would that state of mind feel like?
What is the experience of being open and free?
Can you surrender to the experience?
Can you open to that experience?
Does it have characteristics of body awareness sensation?
Is it an open mind sense of freedom?
Like the feeling when the air is so pure or the water is so clear or the music just so that I can hang out all day from a mind body standpoint when the body feels weightless,
Airy,
No pressure,
Comforting and floating.
For one minute or perhaps for merely 10 seconds right now,
Just be.
Just for one full slow breath as you breathe in,
Allow only the thought and sensation of breathing in and only the thought of sensation of breathing out,
Especially the release of the breath as it flows out all on its own,
Being completely free and open.
Okay,
Take one more breath and then back to work.
