Than Geoff always emphasized this idea of creating the conditions for meditation, insight, ease. It’s something that has stuck with me- it’s so easy to fall into the wanting.

If i want the blissy and spacious states- when the do start to arise, then my tendency is to chase them or try to make them bigger. It reinforces the pattern of wanting and not wanting in the mind. When I come at it from this attitude of creating conditions it shifts the effort.

The states can arise and expand because I”m clearing the way for them. They exist naturally in the heart and mind. From this place- it’s easier to touch into the “just being” aspect of practice.