[scott snedeker]

If you meditate regularly you can use your conscious mind to explore other levels of awareness that are suffering. This is not a "fixing myself" expedition but connecting your conscious thought to many subconscious feelings and integrating them until their power is disipated.

Don't resist the value judgements with aversion or assention but acknowledge them. Name each one softly over and over until it morphs into something else, then name that too. Give each one a number like the top ten tunes and then acknowledge "Oh here is # 3 on my value judgement hit parade again." Bow to it. Acknowledge it. Name it. remember the origin from where it developed and then feel compassion for the little boy or teen or young adult self that developed this "Sankara" (Sanskrit defining the above).

Expand your awareness around the feelings. You may find strong aversion and fear to performing this awareness expansion. Let them permeate you and flow through you and over you. Then expand your consciousness further by toying with feelings that may not obviously fit. Compassion, anger, superiority, appreciation, death wish, vertigo, fear etc. Observe which of these stirs the mind.

Then connect these feelings to the concept of Tongpa Nyi. The ethereal connectedness to all matter/energy substance as your soul is part of this fabric without distinct boundaries. You soul is immiscible and properly part of this boundless substance focussed through this lens that is your sankara.

Appreciate your awareness of such and the clearing off the mud off your lens by exercising your capacity to perform this awarness medtation and smile. This is the Buddha Nature!