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Okay, so if you want to hear someone speak remarkably clearly about meditation, check out part 2 of Obstacles to Yoga: The Field of Ignorance.

One thing I’m loving is that RF has translated “kleshas” as “torments,” rather than “defilements” or “corruptions” or something like that. Kind of makes them more active and less deeply tainted, somehow. A little more rajasic and a little less tamasic. Nice. There’s a good bit in there about how thinning the kleshas through practice and meditation allows one to set them aside (though the seed may remain), and how ongoing practice of this setting aside can help us see through the (physical) being, or perhaps perceive it as a kind of “bias.” Aw, just listen to the audio: it’s better than I can explain.

There was a whiff of all of this in practice this morning. Which made hearing it played back to me (in words, no less!) during my drive to work particularly amusing. Just a clear moment when I could see that the mind?body? is a manifestation of what I call belief systems, and what other people probably call something much more accurate and poetic — like “a bias.” Nevertheless.

This kind of clarity makes the being like a knife blade. Very reminiscent of the zen sword — transparent, compassionate and absolute.

Then the key is to let go.

Current thought (oops, back to the vrittis!) is tattoo on the inside upper forearm.