How can I clean up without getting stuck in being the vigilant one tasked with continuously cleaning up?

1. The concentration approach to meditation isolates one experience and sets aside all others. In contrast, the Taoist approach to yin yoga welcomes all experiences. Each is beneficial, but it’s to the latter that we now turn.

2. From a Taoist Vedantic point of view, there’s a question that neatly and naturally emerges: if all experiences are simply welcomed and allowed to flow, what is it that ‘does’ the welcoming? What is it that ‘allows’ all experiences to flow?

3. This is openness, or silent awareness. I am openness, or silent awareness.

4. Some experiences appear to be sticky. In particular, certain I-thoughts, me-feelings, and intense or chronic pains can make it feel as if experiences can’t flow and also as if I must be implicated in the content of this experience.

5. But this is not so. The stickiness does not come from the I-thought or me-feeling; it comes from another character that’s fighting to get rid of some thought or to hold onto some feeling. 

6. This character too is welcomed by the openness, or silent awareness, that I am, and, little by little, the attractions and aversions dissolve. 

7. In some sense, it can be said that cleaning up comes to an end. But this is not because all I-thoughts or me-feelings have necessarily come to an end. It’s because I am so established as the openness at the heart of my very being that I no longer feel as if I’m implicated in or by this rising experience. I’m done pretending, or making believe, that I’m that experience.

8. I don’t need to always be vigilant; that’s just another character appearing on the screen–that is to say, appearing on me. I can simply be openness–wakefully, knowingly, naturally. I don’t need to constantly remember myself since my stand is most natural. 

9. Therefore, there are no obstacles, no stickinesses, no coagulations in the final analysis.