<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Shaun’s Substack]]></title><description><![CDATA[My personal Substack post NDE of June 2020. Meditations and contemplations. ]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tvyw!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63f27375-fbec-4ec0-ab29-0176c419a2eb_1280x1280.png</url><title>Shaun’s Substack</title><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:29:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/shaunoceans.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[shaunoceans@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[shaunoceans@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[shaunoceans@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[shaunoceans@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Love is unlovable. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your love for another is where your limitations lay.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/love-is-unlovable</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/love-is-unlovable</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:02:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7968f544-2fb4-4fab-94f9-6d5f365997e4_828x823.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Until one commences the spiritual purification of the self, they are limited to only knowing and experiencing mind love. </p><p>This love feels the real deal. But it subject to mind and minds concepts. You can love one and not another. Love with conditions. With requirements. This love only knows what the limited mind knows.</p><p>This mind made love knows maybe 2 generations, 3 at a push. This mind made love knows limited love for a few animals but not all.</p><p>If you think about it, you will love your children. You will love your children&#8217;s children. Will you love your children&#8217;s, children&#8217;s children and theirs? You will say no, because you won&#8217;t be around at that point. And in this limited love lays the problem. We will never make the changes today for an earth in 200 years because the mind love doesn&#8217;t reach that far. There is love for dogs, cats yet no love for pigs or bees. There is no care for the habitats in 200 years for the other species we share this planet with. </p><p>When one embarks on the spiritual quest of self destruction. Slowly returning to wholeness. No longer clinging to the mental concepts. With devotion, the mind is soothed. </p><p>It settles. </p><p>With this diminishing of mind made reality, mind induced love also diminishes. </p><p>This allows for Pure Love to radiate. The love which is one without the two. Not the love you have for another. Or the love which is conditional. Or even the love that can be felt. </p><p>This Love, is creation. </p><p>It is existence. </p><p>It knows no limitation. It knows no separation nor difference. </p><p>It is pure, unobstructed and unadulterated.</p><p>Love which spans a timeless landscape touching All, as All.</p><p>Love is not something we possess, have, distribute or lose. Love is our very existence. Allowed to radiate when mind is soothed, there is only One.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vacuum that holds the mirror in place. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[And you&#8217;ve mistaken the reflection for a &#8216;self&#8217;.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-vacuum-that-holds-the-mirror</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-vacuum-that-holds-the-mirror</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:14:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/50d31062-0ac4-412e-bea5-badca3326ae8_1122x1402.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Imagine a cube. </span></p><p><span>The internal walls of the cube are all mirrors. </span></p><p><span>This is akin to the self- governing wild mind, unfettered with awareness. The movement inside this cube, create constant reflections between every mirror, this is the incessant thoughts of the unsettled mind. </span></p><p><span>This endless activity creates mind made reality, and slotted in there, is the mind made &#8216;I&#8217;.</span></p><p><span>Here is the spiritual secret all seekers are seeking. How to get out of this self perpetuating prison?</span></p><p><span>This structure built by mind is not real. It has no substance and no foundation. The ONLY thing that is keeping it in fruition, IS the movements of thought within it. The very activity of unbridled mind activity is pulling and holding the cube walls together. Like a vacuum, holding it in place, giving the illusion of shape and structure.</span></p><p><span>You cannot use the mind, to escape the mind. It&#8217;s not possible. Any mental movement at all, is within the &#8216;mind cube&#8217;.</span></p><p><span>When the mind slows down its constant activity, the vacuum becomes less powerful. The walls of this seemingly solid structure begin to move slightly. With the slightest of gaps, there is now a space that awareness isn&#8217;t reflected straight back and it can leave the confines of this mental facade. </span></p><p><span>Right there is the space needed.</span></p><p><span>Awareness is the lynch pin of all. It is the fuel for the entire mind made operation that creates complete illusion and simultaneously, is also enlightenment. </span></p><p><span>The mind will continue to run wild if it has endless awareness, which means the mirrored walls will continue to trap awareness, thus keeping it going. It&#8217;s a viscous circle of deceit, illusion and distraction.</span></p><p><span>Pulling awareness, through non-interference, you begin to reduce the minds fuel source. This allows awareness to escape this mental deception of its own created reality and rest on the truth of the unfiltered and unadulterated reality of Here, untainted by mind.</span></p><p><span>This is a self fulfilling practice of a lifetime. There is &#8216;no one&#8217; who gets good at it. If there is, you&#8217;re in the mind cube. </span></p><p><span>This practice destroys everything you&#8217;ve ever known. It releases experience from the grip and trap of the mind. </span></p><p><span>You are this untethered awareness.</span></p><p><span> The entirety of All, IS oneness. It&#8217;s One Being. </span></p><p><span>Simply lose the &#8216;I&#8217; to unknowingly Know All.</span></p><p><span>In the daily unfolding of living, the mind makes &#8216;sense&#8217;. </span></p><p><span>Before you&#8217;re aware of anything consciously, the mind has already made sense of it and then allowed it through. The data or perception you then become aware of consciously is adulterated. Manipulated to fit. It&#8217;s been &#8216;minded&#8217; before any thought has even crossed your awareness. </span></p><p><span>The mind will take the raw data and make it rational to suit. It&#8217;s what it does  </span></p><p><span>The senses you think you know are second hand senses.</span></p><p><span>You are being given a version of reality that&#8217;s been made sense of by the mind. </span></p><p><span>This is okay in principle as it&#8217;s an evolutionary intelligence of survival but it can&#8217;t be mistaken as true reality. </span></p><p><span>As it is not. </span></p><p><span>Personal reality is mind made. To &#8216;make sense&#8217; of &#8216;life&#8217; the mind must also create an individual entity that this &#8216;mind made reality&#8217; applies to and fits around. This is where the illusion of the separate &#8216;I&#8217; comes into play.</span></p><p><span>The practice is to slowly but surely remove the firm belief that your personal reality, is actual reality. </span></p><p><span>It is not. </span></p><p><span>The practice is to be the overarching awareness aware of minds sense making tendencies yet remain under no illusion this is a mind thing and not truth. </span></p><p><span>From Here, One simple let&#8217;s go of more and more of the sense of things made by mind, and moves about this world undisturbed and unperturbed by mind made sense and rests as The True Reality. As Wholeness. No separate.</span></p><p><span>This will never &#8216;make sense&#8217; to the mind. You will never cognitively understand this as an individual as it&#8217;s the individual that&#8217;s the obstacle. </span></p><p><span>Let go of purpose, </span></p><p><span>Let go of meaning, </span></p><p><span>and simply rest as the local point of experience of All. </span></p><p><span>You are Here.</span></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technique that obstructs all. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[You are all masters of this technique without even knowing it.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-technique-that-obstructs-all</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-technique-that-obstructs-all</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 15:56:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c95499f2-027b-484c-95df-a8dce2c7db2f_480x267.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many seek a technique for &#8216;spirituality&#8217;. </p><p>They want a doing, a method, a teaching. </p><p>There is no technique that can be learnt or applied. Because if there was, who is the one learning and who is the one applying?</p><p>The Being, is not Being through doing. It is Being.</p><p>When you sit in deep meditation. The knot will untie itself.</p><p>You will see, that thinking is actually a &#8216;technique&#8217; that is being applied. It requires effort to think. Thinking is a doing, and because thinking has become chronic with an endless stream of thoughts one after the other, it is no longer recognised as a technique that you are unconsciously applying but has become &#8216;second nature&#8217;.</p><p>This is where the illusion is rooted deep. </p><p>When a technique is applied without ceasing, it is no longer a technique. It simply becomes the way. There is no conscious awareness that effort is being applied and it happens automatically. </p><p>This is &#8216;second nature&#8217;. </p><p>Thought, is so provocative and captivating you can&#8217;t pull yourself away from it.</p><p>In the meantime, first nature, Being, is present. Undisturbed. Eternally so. Yet this is true, right now, as you read this, you are distracted in mental thought. The minds world.</p><p>When one who wants to become undistracted from mind seeks another technique in order to do it, this seeking is mind.</p><p>There is no technique to Be. It&#8217;s impossible to do something to become yourself. Self is always Whole and always Here.</p><p>Undistracted is recognition.</p><p>Recognition spontaneously arises.</p><p>With a settled mind, All is Known.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instrument of Knowing. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The body.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-instrument-of-knowing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-instrument-of-knowing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:02:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34c1cd61-d85c-46ea-9557-eb0cc0b0f6d4_605x632.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The body.</p><p>A divine instrument.</p><p>Sit in non-meditation and rest fully aware within the living body.</p><p>It is in the restful that awareness can be liberated from the senses to bring clarity.</p><p>Even the softest of breathes can consume you.</p><p>Blink to hard and you will be lost once again.</p><p>The subtle Being permeating this instrument can only be felt when you once again, rest fully.</p><p>You are it.</p><p>This body - the instrument - allows you to know this.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The non-negotiable that most are compromising on.]]></title><description><![CDATA[With hidden effects and damaging consequences.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-non-negotiable-that-most-are</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-non-negotiable-that-most-are</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:38:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/92ffd947-b9fb-472e-becf-878e81000fb2_1170x1400.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because &#8216;meditation&#8217; is seen as something you do, the illusion of choice is born where you &#8216;choose&#8217; to meditate or not. The mind intervenes. Some meditate. Many don&#8217;t.</p><p>However, meditation is not actually a choice. </p><p>There is an innate need to meditate like the need to sleep when tired or the need to drink when thirsty but the need to sit, to be, is the most extraordinarily subtle need there is, so it is easily overlooked and not felt and therefore missed. </p><p>If hunger were as subtle as this, we&#8217;d starve to death. And in a way, by not meditating, we are starving. Just in a different way to physically starving. </p><p>Meditation is as vitally important as sleep is. When one doesn&#8217;t meditate, it is as damaging and detrimental as not sleeping is. </p><p>You must meditate. It is not a choice. </p><p>Just like sleep, there are only benefits to it, meditation is the same. There are only beneficial upsides to it. </p><p>Relaxed is our natural state. The deep relaxation that comes from meditation doesn&#8217;t only relax the physical body, but it allows for the nervous system to relax. Only when the nervous system is relaxed, can one return to the primordial state of being. </p><p>When one mediates, a recalibration occurs. </p><p>Where once was a numbness, there is now a pocket of awareness. </p><p>This awareness now allows for what was once overlooked and ignored to now be cultivated and known. This knowing, is your nervous system. </p><p>You will never restfully relax until the nervous system is organically relaxed and the nervous system won&#8217;t be soothed until it is lovingly nurtured. It will never be nurtured whilst it&#8217;s being ignored. </p><p>The numbness to its sensitivity is the ignorance of mind reality. </p><p>The cultivating of its sensitivity is the truth of primordial Reality.</p><p>Meditation is a required non-negotiable that the mind has forced many to abandon to a huge personal and global detriment.</p><p>Don&#8217;t concern yourself with duration and &#8216;how&#8217; to meditate. There is no &#8216;doing&#8217;. Like sleep, it just happens. </p><p>All you must do, is sit. </p><p>Consistency is key. </p><p>Everyday you must have an intentional sitting practice. For how long, doesn&#8217;t matter, as long as it&#8217;s daily and it&#8217;s done with intention. </p><p>Just sit. </p><p>It&#8217;s the simplest action one can do. Sit. Close your eyes an breath. The most basic of human being.</p><p>In the very first session, the benefits will be administered immediately. Whether your mind consciously allows you to feel them or not is another question, but your body, your system, your being, will all immediately reap the benefits of a single meditation.</p><p>Just as you sleep every night and it&#8217;s not questioned. Meditate everyday with the same lightness and surrender. </p><p>It&#8217;s not a habit. It&#8217;s not a doing. Just as you don&#8217;t &#8216;do&#8217; sleep, you don&#8217;t &#8216;do&#8217; meditation. </p><p>You gently emerge into sleep. </p><p>You gently emerge into meditation. </p><p>Simply sit. Every day. Peacefully. Intentionally. </p><p>This will only benefit your life. Like drinking water when thirsty. It is life sustaining. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance manifestation. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[And not in the way your mind thinks of it.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/abundance-manifestation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/abundance-manifestation</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:43:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7fb794c0-9bd7-424c-8619-15f5e951aa5f_1024x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are the epitome of abundance.</p><p>Your very being is the culmination of the entity of all, blossoming through itself.</p><p>Just take this one body.</p><p>Trillions of cells.</p><p>Endless processes and happenings.</p><p>Eyes that see all. Ears that&#8217;s hear. Incredibly subtle taste buds to experience taste. The ability to discern scents and smells. The extraordinary motor skills of touch and feeling through touch. Thoughts and the capacity to critically think. The neurons and synapses firing in the brain. Memories. Learning. Hormones and Chemical communication. Personalities and our very peculiar individual ways. </p><p>The earth we walk on provides us with everything. All is Here. Food. Shelter. Water. Sunlight. Seasons. Gravity. Oxygen. Nitrogen. All the countless creations and living beings. The stars. The space. The galaxies, the spirals, the sequences, the happenings, the divine orchestra that keeps everything working, moving and in rhythm.</p><p>It&#8217;s all perfect. All Here.</p><p>You are this very abundance.</p><p>Money is not abundance.</p><p>Being, IS abundance, in its highest purest manifestation.</p><p>Don&#8217;t block this out, laser focused on one form of abundance that the mind believes to be the be all and end all.</p><p>Sit down. Close your eyes. Remain still.</p><p>Bask in the purity of living abundance. </p><p>You are this abundance.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rainbow mantra ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Use this mantra in moments of overwhelm and to help sooth a restless mind.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-rainbow-mantra</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-rainbow-mantra</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:41:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fdf391b6-90b5-4ff2-a99e-6f4309e5a6da_1024x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The one word mantra when overwhelmed by mind is &#8216;rainbow&#8217;. Say it and breathe. It doesn&#8217;t matter what the mind is doing as you say it or what else it is narrating, just say &#8216;rainbow&#8217; and let the mantra be the main thought. Hear over the other noise.   Just say rainbow and breathe. And each time rest deeper. </p><p>When moisture passes through sunlight, the rainbow appears. It is of no substance. Not real. An illusion.</p><p>When awareness passes through mind, the mind made &#8216;I&#8217; appears. It is of no substance. Not real. An illusion.</p><p>If the rainbow had been there since the dawn of time, humans would not see it as an illusion. It would appear real to them. Something that has always been so therefore must be real. We know different because we have witnessed what happens when the moisture no longer passes through the sunlight. Its vanishes.</p><p>The mantra rainbow will help you with this mind made &#8216;I&#8217; that is also an illusion. It is not permanent. But unlike the rainbow, this mind made &#8216;I&#8217; has been around since the dawn of your time. So you do believe it to be real. </p><p>When awareness no longer passes through the unsettled mind, it vanishes. Just as the rainbow does. Th mantra rainbow is to help you remember this and as you say the mantra, each time, rest deeper and deeper  breathing. Relaxing. Pulling awareness. </p><p>All that remains, is perfect. </p><p>Do not fear this vanishing  </p><p>When the rain stops passing through the sunlight and rainbow ceases, the rainbow doesn&#8217;t fall down and crash into the earth. It doesn&#8217;t need cleaning up or cause problem. It simply vanishes. And all that remains is perfect. The sky is unaffected by its coming and going  </p><p>This is the same as when mind made &#8216;I&#8217; ceases. There is nothing to worry or fear. All is perfect. All remains perfect. Everything is pristine and perfect, always. Rest in this. You, true You, is unaffected. </p><p>This mantra also serves as the reminder you are not a separate being cut off and isolated. You are as the rainbow is. </p><p>When you touch another or something, the mind will tell you it&#8217;s separate to you, external. Yet I ask, the green touches the blue in the rainbow, are they separate?</p><p>The rainbow doesn&#8217;t even exist, how can they be separate! Touching means nothing. When you touch another, you are touching yourself. Without the mind made &#8216;I&#8217;, the illusory self, there is no separation.</p><p>Use rainbow as your mantra. Repeat it, and as you do, pull awareness as if pulling moisture from the sunlight.</p><p>You are safe. </p><p>You are blanketed in comfort, protection and love. </p><p>Liberation need not be found, it is Here already, recognise it.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The innate momentum that shapes reality, yet is completely unbeknownst to us. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even the smallest of acts can throw your practice into disarray&#8230;]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-innate-momentum-that-shapes-reality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-innate-momentum-that-shapes-reality</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:43:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b0a0aec1-0cb4-48b4-9d1f-eb9229925a1f_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spiritual practice requires concentration,</p><p>However it&#8217;s not the concentration that you are habitually used to harnessing. </p><p>Concentration has only ever been used to focus.</p><p>For practice, concentration is required but the application is vastly different.</p><p>The practice of retraction, concentration is applied for unfocusing, not focusing.</p><p>When concentration is used to unfocus from the mind, the mind made reality which has been taking all your focus up until now, begins to fade. </p><p>You can&#8217;t try to unfocus. </p><p>Spiritual concentration is therefore, effortlessly applied through softening, settling and pulling awareness from the consuming mind. This is, Non-interference.</p><p>This effortless concentration will also generate inner momentum, which helps bring Being into view, for longer and more often. </p><p>The momentum within, either inner or outer, is always accumulating unbeknownst to us. Like the internal clock that is always ticking without our knowing. Momentum within, is always garnering. </p><p>As practice feels deep, effortless and natural, this is an indication inner momentum is flowing and building. </p><p>You won&#8217;t know when this shifts and outer momentum has dominion because there isn&#8217;t an exact moment, but practice will feel like your having to try more, you will feel more &#8216;mind&#8217;, which could be more stressed, snappy or just simply bothered by things which before, didn&#8217;t bother you. </p><p>This is why dedication is vital. Don&#8217;t stop. Practice must be consistent. </p><p>Don&#8217;t beat yourself up, the changing back and forth of momentum is the path of practice. It&#8217;s the natural way. The momentum could change over the subtlest of arisings. This could have occurred many weeks before and slowly since that arising, momentum had been on an outward trajectory. </p><p>It could take weeks or months to; </p><p>1) become strong enough it&#8217;s affects are visibly </p><p>and </p><p>2) through dedication and devotion, for inner momentum to override and shift inwards once again  </p><p>When you find the periods of bliss, deep meditations and restful states of primordial being, this doesn&#8217;t mean inner momentum started just now or yesterday, it would have started many days, weeks, months or even years before this period, and the consequences of this momentum, has reached conscious awareness. Known through deep effortless practice.</p><p>You cannot &#8216;hold&#8217; onto inner momentum. You must surrender that concept of trying to maintain and stay in this state. This very attempt will cause outer momentum. You must flow. You are the way. You cannot control or dictate the way because you aren&#8217;t separate from it. You are it. So the practice is simple - continue practice at every moment. Endlessly. </p><p>This is a lifelong practice.</p><p>Something big could happen that causes outer momentum, extra work load, house renovation, death of a loved one, unexpected happening that&#8217;s deemed bad. Something small could happen that causes outer momentum, you see something unsettling on social media, you&#8217;re late to work through no fault of your own, you are bothered its raining again. It can be so small and insignificant you don&#8217;t even feel the change that initiates the outer momentum trajectory.</p><p>Inner momentum will always override without fail to the earnest, devoted and dedicated seeker.</p><p>Cultivating your environment is the biggest contribution you can make to the practice and flowing with the ever changing momentum&#8217;s. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before death, after death. ]]></title><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/before-death-after-death</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/before-death-after-death</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:51:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185331194/71412df888ade70c4e6e57de1001a984.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Warrior]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trying to hold onto it, only strengthens delusion.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-warrior</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-warrior</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:18:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb892b2c-1c43-45c5-9236-2ca661af3bc6_1024x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying to hold onto it, only strengthens delusion.</p><p>Trying to to analyse it, only deepens confusion.</p><p>Awareness of here, is mind sensed.</p><p>Awareness as Here, is Being sensed.</p><p>After lifetimes of effort and doing,</p><p>All it&#8217;s achieved is clinging and illusion.</p><p>Therefore, the true warrior,</p><p>Is not the one who fights,</p><p>But the one who surrenders.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst…]]></title><description><![CDATA[You fight&#8230;
You endure&#8230;
You want&#8230;]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/in-the-midst</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/in-the-midst</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:21:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7704ead-209f-4fbc-9d15-162bf4a65d1e_1170x1641.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You fight.</p><p>You plan.</p><p>You endure.</p><p>You worry.</p><p>You survive.</p><p>You protect.</p><p>You want.</p><p>In the midst of all these,</p><p>There is a pureness.</p><p>A pure, undisturbed sound.</p><p>Not bound by anything,</p><p>Nor reliant on anything.</p><p>It is pristine, whole and unified.</p><p>This song, emanates constantly, and touches everything and everyone.</p><p>The sound is not individual to you.</p><p>It is the Oneness that we all blossom through.</p><p>When you sit, settle and soften,</p><p>Allowing all you&#8217;ve been striving for to rest for a brief moment.</p><p>The heart will be heard over the mind.</p><p>You only need hear this song once to bask in awe.</p><p>This pure song, eternally heard, is known, </p><p>as Silence.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undiagnosed disease affecting most, if not all of humanity…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Undiscovered, undiagnosed and a silent killer.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-undiagnosed-disease-affecting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-undiagnosed-disease-affecting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:14:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/521a17cb-d0aa-41f5-a9df-fa98587f8a00_647x431.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an undiscovered and undiagnosed silent disease affecting every human on the planet.</p><p>Autosense disease is the non-physical equivalent to its physical counterpart (autoimmune). </p><p>Autoimmune is where the disease turns your own immune system on itself, Autosense disease turns your own senses on itself.</p><p>It is where the mind hijacks and uses the natural &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once removed from living… ]]></title><description><![CDATA[First hand experiencing of aliveness.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/once-removed-from-living</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/once-removed-from-living</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:42:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd99dda8-d155-42c7-a7c8-abbb9c2a4001_547x365.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Knowing you are alive via thoughts is distancing and detaching yourself from the divine actuality of Living.</p><p>It&#8217;s like witnessing an awe inspiring view through the screen on your phone. The view is right there, you&#8217;re seeing it, but through the screen. You&#8217;re once removed.</p><p>Living is right here, you are alive right now, but you only know you&#8217;re alive right now, through the thoughts, through the thinking, via the mind. When you sit, meditate, pull awareness from mind, thoughts subside. As if you are putting down the phone and taking in the entire view and experiencing its beauty first hand.</p><p>You then feel, experience and merge with the entire process of living because you are this very process. You will feel all the innate subtleties of this divine happening that you&#8217;ve never felt before because all you&#8217;ve felt, is the minds structure. </p><p>Sit. Close your eyes. Experience the aliveness you are. Not through mind or as this mind made entity, but, first hand, as Aliveness. </p><p>A smile will arise, a by-product of presence.</p><p>This is Being.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mindless vs Mindful]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even as you read this, practice and renounce.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/mindless-vs-mindful</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/mindless-vs-mindful</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:31:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/095c5943-663b-4f74-bf46-a523398395e0_832x1104.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is moving with mindless purpose that one is caught up in the busyness of the mind and lost in its substrata reality. Even walking down the garden to get something out the shed. Making a cup of tea. Writing a WhatsApp. Hidden in the movement is minds grip. This is why mindfulness to what you are doing is very important on the path. This doesn&#8217;t mean thinking to yourself &#8216;I am writing a WhatsApp&#8217; that&#8217;s still mindless thinking, just packaged as presence. Practice being as you write, regardless of the doing, of the reason why you&#8217;re writing it or what you expect from it. This is the &#8216;stuff&#8217; of mind. Just Be, as the doing is done. When you get up from meditation, it&#8217;s not you getting up, it&#8217;s the entirety of ALL getting up, in the purest motion of simply, standing up. No other purpose need be applied. Remove the &#8216;I&#8217; from everything. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice over everything. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Practice over raising a child. Over work. Over helping another.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/practice-over-everything</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/practice-over-everything</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:38:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6aece85a-ca18-4627-9f0d-afc9ef040208_720x960.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The practice must be prioritised over everything. Always.</p><p>Over helping another.</p><p>Over raising a child.</p><p>Over your career and work.</p><p>Over your daily chores, obligations and responsibilities.</p><p>Over being alive.</p><p>This to the mind may read as selfish but it&#8217;s because the mind cannot fathom the practice as beneficial because it doesn&#8217;t know outside of itself.</p><p>You don&#8217;t &#8216;choose&#8217; to practice instead of helping another or before feeding your child. You don&#8217;t &#8216;choose&#8217; to practice instead of working and paying your bills or to sit and mediate over doing house chores. No no no.</p><p>The practice is prioritised as the main focus as you do what must be done.</p><p>If the practice is not prioritised, then it&#8217;s simply another day in minds reality as the mind made &#8216;I&#8217; going about doing its thing.</p><p>You limit another when you help them,</p><p>You limit your child when you raise them,</p><p>You become lost in the narrative of the mental thoughts going about daily activities.</p><p>You limit yourself. Enslave yourself. Burden yourself.</p><p>With the practice dominating every moment, one helps another without limiting the other as &#8216;other&#8217;. Compassion arises from emptiness. There is no hierarchy, no teacher who knows and student who must learn. There is no, I have the power and knowledge and you need it because you don&#8217;t have it. There is no I am the one who can help because you need my help. No. There is only truth. What you do to another, you do to yourself. The act of helping, not for gain, nor statue, nor recognition but simply because why wouldn&#8217;t you help.</p><p>Raising a child with the practice as the priority is not neglecting the child. It is dropping the illusory labels of I am the parent you are my child. They are not &#8216;your&#8217; child. They are having their own unique experience of Self as you are, all Here, One, experiencing itself through itself. Anchored as their parent, their mom or dad, you limit them to your child, as such and such name. You never allow them the opportunity of freedom because you are not free. Raising a child whilst prioritising practice, you let go of your rigid identity as mom or dad. The child came through you only, the child is not a personal possession of yours. Free from this, you completely unlimit the child also. Allowing freedom to blossom through. You do all you must to protect and nurture this beautiful child with unconditional love that is not governed by anything other then the divine love that we all are. You watch the child grow in complete presence and allow the child to experience itself fully unlimited and unbound. Prioritising practice through parenthood is the deepest love a parent could show and offer a child.</p><p>Prioritising practice through career and work does not mean quitting the job to sit and meditate all day. Bills must be paid. Houses must be maintained. Daily living in this time frame requires money and money is earned through work. Not allowing your reality to be dominated by this identity of &#8216;I am a chief exec&#8217; or &#8216;I am a plumber&#8217; whilst all along the mind is constantly seeking more money, more status, more work, thinking of the future and how can I get to from here to here. I want this. I want that. You must do what you must do, and work is a doing that must be done, prioritising practice over work and through work, is detaching from the work identity your mind has created. Taking that weight out of the future. Yes make plans, grow, expand but do so in lightness, free of expectations and outcomes. You will work whilst bringing awareness to the very truth of where you are and what you are doing and why you are doing what you are doing. Reducing the overwhelm of high level business and stressful jobs. You are not the plumber or the chief exec. This is merely the work you must do to earn money. I am not saying don&#8217;t earn money. I am saying whilst earning money, remain as the true self, not lost in the minds world as this or that.</p><p>Prioritising practice throughout daily chores is a key practice. It is in the mundane that the mind easily slips in. Quickly stacking the dishwasher. Hoovering. Popping to the shops. Cooking the dinner. Watching TV. Prioritising practice over washing the dishes doesn&#8217;t mean the dishes don&#8217;t get washed, it means there is no one washing them as they are being washed. There is no narrative about how annoying it is to wash them or how you hate washing them or even &#8216;I am washing the dishes&#8217;. There is simply the act of washing the dishes. As life living. This experience is the entire universe in divine action right now. Everything has conspired eternally and all that&#8217;s happened has happened perfectly and this moment is perfect. I am the entirety of All, Here. Do must be done, not as the doer, but rooted in Being.</p><p>Finally. Prioritise practice over practice. There is nothing to do. Nothing to be done. Nothing to acquire or learn. You need not sit for hours or travel to an ashram. Don&#8217;t bypass living and experiencing to rigidly practice. Prioritising practice is where practice merges as non-practice. Simply Being. The practice, is recognition. Recognise the essential nature of mind. Your only obstacle to direct knowing is the distraction in thought.</p><p>Breath. Recognise. Repeat. Do what must be done. </p><p>Living is the ultimate blessing.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instruction of ending the illusion ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read, reread, embody and embrace.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-instruction-of-ending-the-illusion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-instruction-of-ending-the-illusion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:40:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a648a2e8-5a6f-4728-9d1d-293ee31a35a9_600x600.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now is sensing and manifesting of Here.</p><p>Here is All.</p><p>Now is Here made manifest.</p><p>There is nothing outside of Now.</p><p>Now is universal.</p><p>There is no individual Now. Now is unfolding at exactly the same moment across the entirety of all in existence.</p><p>Now is all there is.</p><p>Outside of Now is mind made reality,</p><p>Such as businesses, your state of finances, your family dynamics or anything else.</p><p>Literally, in truth, Now is all there is.</p><p>Now is Here made manifest and Here is Existence.</p><p>Accept this truth.</p><p>So now I will tell you have to free yourself of mind made reality. The mind is thinking because it is its nature to think. The same as a mirror reflects because it is its nature to. You cannot stop a mirror reflecting. The mirror will reflect all in its reach. The same applies to mind and awareness. The mind will always think with awareness is in its reach.</p><p>The mind cannot rest whilst awareness is within it, just as a mirror cannot rest whilst a reflection is within it. For the mirror to be pure and uncontaminated by reflection, nothing must be in its reach. Then you see the pure essence of the mirror in its true self. The mind cannot rest in its pure essence whilst awareness is within its reach. And just as a mirror is what it reflects, a mind is what it thinks.</p><p>It is a habit of a life time to interfere and dwell in the minds reality. From the very beginning you believed you were the thoughts and the one thinking. You have been told you are such and such. You have seen evidence through the mind that you are the one thinking. There has been no let up. No rest. No break. No glimmer of anything else.</p><p>This is the practice. Wholeheartedly embody the instruction of the teaching from One who has had the glimmer of the other way. From the one who does as he teaches. One who can point the direction you must travel. One who speaks truthfully. Then go about moment to moment building trust and confidence. Fully immersed and with unshakable faith. The tipping point will arrive. And realisation of the initial instruction will blossom. Recognising one&#8217;s true nature as the pure essence of mind radiates.</p><p>How to pull awareness from the minds reach?</p><p>One must bask in the fundamental truths and renounce everything else. For all else is an illusion that obscures Truth.</p><p>There has never been a time and there never will be a time existence has not existed. Existence is enteral. It has no beginning , no end. It is All there is and everything is a manifestation of Itself, of Existence.</p><p>There is only One Existence. Not singularly one but Wholly One. Nothing separate or external. Existence is All.</p><p>There is no such thing as non-existence. It doesn&#8217;t exist and never will.</p><p>Existence is Here and known as Now. Even when the knowing of now ceases, through the individual bodies death, Here remains. Now is Here sensed, through a physical fruition of Itself. All else is secondary and a projection of the mind made reality.</p><p>You are not who your mind makes out you are. To free yourself of this burden, pull awareness from mind. When mind rests in its original state prior to thought, your true Self radiates. It is the One Self at the foundation of All, Known only through sensing Now with a mind still in its pure essence. You cannot know this any other way.</p><p>Sit. Overlook the minds thoughts and practice pulling awareness as to not interfere with the mind and its thinking. This is the way to slowly reduce the awareness you are pumping into it.</p><p>Know the minds projections and see beyond it. The projection is everything you see and sense. You see the tree, beyond it, there is only Here. You are not the one seeing.</p><p>The breath is the halfway house. Arrive at it then leave it be. The body breathes not you.</p><p>Moment to moment as and when you remember, return. Don&#8217;t use the mind for this. Recognise the ever present reality that the limited mind made reality exists within.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The senses are ‘make or break’ of the minds illusion. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you only know what the mind manipulates prior to knowing then what do you actually know?]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-senses-are-make-or-break-of-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/the-senses-are-make-or-break-of-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:28:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/05c5d071-97d0-4d6d-9168-d26d3601f2b6_357x200.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The senses are the &#8216;make or break&#8217; of the minds illusion. Being alive is sensing. They are not separate nor can either be turned off while the other continues. If you are alive, the senses are sensing, when the body dies, the senses also cease.</p><p>Now, in short, humans don&#8217;t know yet how to use the senses. It&#8217;s something that one is born with and just accepts wholeheartedly. The human body is so new and the mind so complex and powerful, it is no wonder we don&#8217;t know how to use them both yet. Only a handful of humans have managed to master its use fully. Over time, more and more will show others its capabilities.</p><p>So back to the senses the body perceives, the issue here is, the mind is manipulating what is sensed. The mind is acting as gatekeeper and hijacking the input before you are consciously aware of it and then you only know what the mind has filtered through.</p><p>The 5 senses you know,</p><p>So you see,</p><p>You hear,</p><p>You touch,</p><p>Taste,</p><p>And smell.</p><p>The illusion of separation and the individual self known as &#8216;name and form&#8217; is rooted and held in place by these very 5 senses.</p><p>You see another. A tree. Distance. Something you like, something you dislike. Something that invokes pain or joy.</p><p>You hear a noise and immediately start thinking what it is. You hear something that causes distress. That causes happiness. That causes concern. You hear something from outside and when outside is quiet you hear what&#8217;s inside and inside is never quiet.</p><p>You touch and label. You touch and get goosebumps. You touch and instantly repel. You touch to know. You touch to enforce. You touch to soothe.</p><p>You taste what you desire. You taste to experience. You taste to enjoy.</p><p>You smell and you think. You smell and you know. You smell to be sure. You smell to be safe. You smell to remember. You smell to learn. You smell something new.</p><p>In all, the mind is active.</p><p>The mind is using the innate senses you know to create reality.</p><p>Now sit. Slow the breath, and hear. Don&#8217;t listen. Hear. The senses you are perceiving are the chains trapping you.</p><p>Yes senses cannot be stopped, but you do not need to. Senses are incredibly divine, they allow us to Know we are alive. To experience. To interact. To sense, is to Live.</p><p>I will refer to senses now as the Pure Sense. The organic primary sense before the minds manipulates take hold.</p><p>Pure sense requires nothing. It&#8217;s not a gift you have to acquire or some have some don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s the same senses you are sensing right now, it&#8217;s just prior to mind&#8217;s involvement. They are Pure Senses. They naturally are known through the quietening of the mind. As the mind rests more and more, by proxy the pure senses become greater than the senses we are used to. They become greater then what the mind filtered senses are.</p><p>Pure Sight - is seeing through what the one see is. Seeing through the screen of sight the mind is projecting onto. There is no distance. The screen is all you see. See beyond it. There is no one seeing  </p><p>Pure Hearing - is hearing silence through all the noise. Remaining still, calm and undisturbed as noises come and go. Not lost in a stream of thought or actions. Hearing the silence all sounds are within. There is no one hearing. </p><p>Pure Touch - to touch without a label. Without subject and object. </p><p>Pure Taste - to taste not as a byproduct of indulgence. Not as the one who is eating. Tasting the food as it nourishes the body to flourish and live. Without preference, commentary or greed  </p><p>Pure Smell - without the flurry of thoughts that follow and then the actions that follow them. Without visual commentary. Experiencing with presence  </p><p>Senses make the illusion.</p><p>Pure Senses break the illusion.</p><p>There is nothing to do. As you do nothing your hair grows, do nothing and you will know the pure senses in the organic form they arrive in. Pure senses are a byproduct of deep practice as one&#8217;s mind rests back into its natural state. A settled mind is a quiet mind. A quiet mind is freedom to Know you are alive.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why you are apart… ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thought is part.]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/why-you-are-apart</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/why-you-are-apart</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 08:31:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5dc92d21-3aa0-4f46-9179-1cf303f4bba3_1400x725.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thought is part.</p><p>No thought is whole.</p><p>The partialness comes as soon as any thought arises. Wholeness remains always but completely obscured, as attention is on thoughts and thought is partial. The entire reality is then based on being a-part.</p><p>When death of the mind and body arrives, thoughts cease, partialness ceases and Wholeness is.</p><p>There is no one to experience Wholeness as someone is a partial and Wholeness simply is, Whole.</p><p>For humans, the ability to inhabit the partial world of form yet realise Wholeness is possible. One simply needs renounce the illusion of themselves cast by mind.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no observer of thought…]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mind has hijacked the spiritual practice]]></description><link>https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/there-is-no-observer-of-thought</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://shaunoceans.substack.com/p/there-is-no-observer-of-thought</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaun Oceans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:45:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55e9fd1d-362a-4958-a377-ce57140a040a_1080x1350.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Observation of thoughts is not what you think it to be. It is not sitting there watching thoughts. Observation is actually a non-doing, it is a silent practice where one Is, exactly as they are, Being undisturbed by thoughts. This is what has been coined &#8216;observation&#8217;. The reason observation isn&#8217;t the act of watching thoughts is because there is no one who can watch. If there is a watcher who is observing, then this is still mind so you are still within the minds control. Your &#8216;spiritual observation&#8217; is but another thought you are lost in.</p><p>It&#8217;s very simple. The mind is naturally still. It is naturally silent. The mind, unsettled, thinks. This &#8216;thinking&#8217; is known as a talking voice. Constant chit chatter back and forth within itself. The practice, is giving yourself space to pull awareness from this constant chit chatter and in doing so the mind starts to settle back to its original state. Therefore, there can&#8217;t be an observer because there is no observer. An observer is still a mind made thought. All thoughts are mind.</p><p>A thought &#8216;I am watching this thought&#8217;.</p><p>A thought &#8216;I am now in silence&#8217;.</p><p>A thought &#8216;I am free from mind&#8217;.</p><p>No thought, is observation. And no thought is a relaxed mind resting in its natural state of being.</p><p>You can&#8217;t simple &#8216;stop&#8217; thinking. To try stop thinking is merely another mind activity which will only create more thought. It is a process stabilised and strengthened over a sustained period of exercise. Sit for a session of sitting meditation morning and night. The mornings being extremely potent. Sit in meditation but then let go, and pull awareness through non-meditation. Relax and soften. Don&#8217;t acknowledge any thoughts, don&#8217;t reject any or invite any. Just sit. Allowing the primordial silence to consume awareness ever so slightly. Don&#8217;t be scared by this approach. Silence will take many moons to return so do not fear it. The thoughts will continue but simple ignore them. It&#8217;s like sitting next to a motorway and being blasted by the sounds of lorry&#8217;s and motorbikes, cars and constant noise. Then, you put in earplugs and the sound is dampened. The cars are still flying by but the barrage of noise is practically none existent. Just Be. Sit. Allowing the body to breathe, you are not the one breathing.</p><p>Throughout the day come back as often as you can to this. 10 seconds here. 30 seconds here. You will be sucked back into the noise of mind and the mind will continue to think, it&#8217;s inevitable. Sustain the practice. Cultivate space. This is an exercise that you see no progression nor success in. It is an exercise that you enter and never return from.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>