Learning to notice your mind, its habits & patterns, is the first step of many. Seeing and intervening with your mind's ego in the everyday is important but only goes so deep. Depth is meant to figuratively dissect the mind, and its conditioning, through meditative surgery.
Its hard to gain depth with so many worldly distractions. Work, school, family, there are many responsibilities on our plate. This can lead to a life on tilt. Always needing to do, achieve, buy, distract, escape, etc. Bottomless are the to-do's, should's and need's. With small investments of time out of this pressure box of tilt, it is possible to gain strong, balanced, centered footing. A footing with depth.
What is needed is the opposite of tilt. Sitting meditation is that pause. Sitting with surrender, stillness and neutrality to what arises allows the mind to unwind deeper. The murk that hides insight can settle to the bottom of the stream.
This is like accessing the "Task Manager" of your mind's computer, seeing what processes are running and closing what is not necessary. Seeing what is minimally needed to run your computer. As you go deeper, you realize what this minimum is. You start up each day with less and less clutter of thoughts, beliefs and conditioning (programing). You go through your everyday life more easily seeing the arising of these thoughts and programs that are unnecessary. Closing them out as they arise with neutrality. Eventually this gets automated by your subconscious. A depth of ability.
Got depth?
