Breathe.......

Whatsoever you are doing, keep your attention in the gap between the two breaths. But it must be practiced while in activity.

Do not practice it in isolation. This practice is to be done while you are doing something else. You are eating – go on eating and be attentive of the gap. You are walking – go on walking and be attentive of the gap.

You are going to sleep – lie down, let sleep come, but you go on being attentive of the gap. Why in activity?

Because activity distracts the mind, activity calls for your attention again and again. Do not be distracted, be fixed at the gap. And do not stop activity, let the activity continue.

What will happen? Your activity will become an acting, as if you are playing a part - as if in a drama. Your attention is centered in you; your activity continues on the circumference.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚; 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐬.

𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓪 𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓽; 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓽. 𝓣𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓮𝓬𝓱𝓷𝓲𝓺𝓾𝓮.

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