Welcoming

Meeting all phenomena with kindness and lack of opposition.

Simple

• There is only one instruction for this practice: welcome everything, genuinely and without prior evaluation or hesitation.

Detailed

• Rest awareness back, zoomed-out.
• Whenever any phenomena draws attention welcome it genuinely, without prior evaluation or hesitation, then release paying attention to it.
  • Welcome anything felt to be subject (me) as well as object (what is sensed by me).
• Welcoming can be wished each time something shows up in awareness. As momentum grows, a more expansive continuous attitude and wish of welcoming can be worked with.
  • No need to try and concentrate or keep the mind on any object. Simply welcome whatever is experienced without prior evaluation or hesitation.
    • Welcome: drowsiness, alertness, wandering mind states, stability, dullness, clarity, the sense of “the observer”, wanting, not liking, the “wanter/not-liker”, confidence, doubt, thoughts, lack of thought, the “thinker” sadness, happiness, pleasantness, unpleasantness, the “feeler” etc.