Last night, I went to a meditation workshop and the teacher commented that both the understanding of concepts and the actual meditation are significant, with the former deepening the practice of the latter. The next question from the audience was: "So teacher, when do we drop the concepts?" Here is my two cents: Spiritual practice is never a linear equation, or one will exactly fall into the pitfalls of clinging onto concepts. The tendency will be to attach more meaning to the results rather than to see the true nature they can bear.
To know if you are consumed by concepts, try to quiet your mind and use your body senses as the reference. With the day to day challenges, can you still feel peace, calmness and lightness within yourself? If yes, then I would like to congratulate you as it is very likely that you are using wisdom to observe, investigate and research the concepts. And maybe even bringing such concepts from your mind to your heart and turning them into your own experiences. The observer and the observed thus become one.
After all, your body is your loyal messenger that never lies to you, but your mind often does. Have you been listening to your body enough? Are you the driver of your mind or is your mind driving you (nuts)?
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