Coaching practices for Non Grasping Meditation
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- A feeling shows up and I’m instantly grabbing at it or shoving it away
- I’ve got the breath thing down
- I’m comfortable following the breath, but the moment I’m told to drop the anchor and just be present with nothing to hold onto, I either spin off into thinking or go blank
- I sit to meditate and my mind keeps getting yanked off toward something I want
- I’m tired of techniques and counting and focusing on something
Practices that may help
- Non-grasping awareness: letting arise and pass
Watch thoughts, sensations, and emotions arise and dissolve without grabbing or pushing.
Shikantaza: Just Sitting - Choiceless awareness — resting without an object
Sit with attention open and receptive, letting whatever arises in experience be the meditation object — without choosing, pursuing, or rejecting any of it.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical - Releasing the object: sitting without a focal point
Let go of fixing attention on the breath, a mantra, or any other anchor — simply be present.
Shikantaza: Just Sitting - Working with sensual desire (kamacchanda)
When craving or distraction toward pleasant experiences pulls you out of meditation, use anicca contemplation to see the transient quality of what is craved.
The Five Hindrances: Diagnosing and Working with Meditation Obstacles - Shikantaza (just sitting)
Sit in open, objectless awareness — not focusing on anything, not following anything.
Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) - Shikantaza — "just sitting" in the Soto Zen tradition
Sit with complete presence and nothing to achieve — no goal, no technique, no observer separate from sitting.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical - Anicca — observing impermanence to reduce attachment
Notice that every sensation arises, peaks, and passes — using this as the ground for not clinging.
Vipassana Meditation, Made Practical - Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
Open monitoring meditation (also called choiceless awareness or open presence) is the practice of resting in an expansive, receptive awareness without directing attention at any single object — observing whatever arises in experience without preferring or pursuing any of it. It complements focused-attention practices and is associated with different neural signatures in contemplative neuroscience. Direct outcome evidence is limited compared to focused-attention methods. - Anapana — breath observation as the entry point
Settle the mind by observing the natural breath at the nostrils before doing anything else.
Vipassana Meditation, Made Practical - Effortlessness (the “no concentration” principle)
Let the technique be passive and easy — TM’s central claim is that effort is counterproductive.
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Related concerns
- No Technique Meditation
Let the technique be passive and easy — TM’s central claim is that effort is counterproductive.
Effortlessness (the “no concentration” principle)
- Non Dual Meditation
Train non-dual awareness through many brief touches across the day rather than long sittings.
Small glimpses, many times — the micro-dose delivery model
- Non Forcing Meditation
Rather than forcing stillness, create conditions where the mind naturally quiets.
Let the mind settle of its own accord
- Objectless Meditation
Sit with complete presence and nothing to achieve — no goal, no technique, no observer separate from sitting.
Shikantaza — "just sitting" in the Soto Zen tradition
- Open Presence Meditation
Open monitoring meditation (also called choiceless awareness or open presence) is the practice of resting in an expansive, receptive awareness without directing attention at any single object — observing whatever arises in experience without preferring or pursuing any of it. It complements focused-attention practices and is associated with different neural signatures in contemplative neuroscience. Direct outcome evidence is limited compared to focused-attention methods.
- Passive Attitude Meditation
Cultivate the inner stances — non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, acceptance, letting go — that make attention healing rather than harsh.
The attitudes of mindfulness
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