Stay in the middle between two polarities
Everything is polar, and mind moves from one polarity to another, never staying in between. Have you known any moment when you were neither happy nor unhappy? healthy nor sick? neither this nor that, when you were just in between, just in the middle, right in the middle?
Mind moves from one pole to another immediately. If you are happy, sooner or later you will move to unhappiness, and you will move immediately: the happiness will disappear and you will be unhappy. When you are becoming happy, you are gathering momentum to be unhappy. So whenever laughing, the moment is not far away from weeping. But this is the natural law of mind.
This technique is to change this natural law: Any of the polarities can be chosen, and try to be just in between. When pain is there, what can you do? When pain is there, you want to escape from it. You don’t want it; you try to go away from it. Your effort is to go to the opposite – to be happy, to be joyful. When there is happiness, what do you do? Your effort is to cling to it so that the other pole may not enter – to CLING to it! When happiness is there you cling; when pain is there you escape. This is the natural attitude. If you want to change this natural law and transcend it, when pain is there don’t try to escape. Remain with it.
You have a headache: remain with it. Close your eyes, meditate on the headache; remain with it. Don’t do anything. Just be a witness; don’t try to escape. When happiness is there and you are feeling especially blissful in any particular moment, don’t cling to it. Close your eyes and remain a witness to it all.
If you remain a witness, sooner or later you will fall in between because the natural law is to move to the polarity, to the polar opposite. If you remain a witness, you are in between. You are happy; accept the fact. Don’t cling to it, and don’t try not to become unhappy; don’t try anything.
If you can watch without attraction and without repulsion you will fall in the middle, and once the pendulum stops in the middle you can look for the first time at what the world is.
If you remain in the middle and the pendulum has stopped, if your consciousness is focused now, centered, then you know what reality is. Only a mind that is unmoving can know what the truth is.