Why You Don't Need to Worry About Anything.

Dear All,

Below is a stick figure drawing showing you what thoughtless awareness is good for on a day-to-day basis. Apart from the fact that studies have shown that achieving thoughtless awareness, even for a few seconds at a time, can relieve stress, anxiety and depression, it's also a 'get-out-of-jail-free' card for the daily challenges we may face in work and personal life.

The reason it works is because our patterns of thought have crystallised into various issues(red box in drawing) we may be facing and getting intothoughtless awareness helps us step outside our mental traps so that solutions can present themselves. The universe is benign and not hostile. 

The drawing shows a stick figure trapped in a two-dimensional (length & width) box. The only way for the stick figure to get out of the trap is to enter the third dimension (height) and simply step out of the box. We're actually in a 3-D world so to transcend this we'd need to enter the 4th dimension, which is thoughtless awareness hence another name for it in sanskrit is Turiya or '4th state'.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards