Letting Unfettered Mind Become a Companion
Over time, you may find that Unfettered Mind becomes a quiet companion in your practice—a space you return to when something stirs, opens, puzzles, or unsettles you. This relationship is without expectation, and asks only for your attention.
Your relationship with the site changes as your practice evolves. At first, you may come with specific questions or a sense of wanting direction. Later, you may find yourself returning out of curiosity, or because something in your life echoes a theme you’ve encountered before. Over time, your reasons for visiting shift. Unfettered Mind can reflect these shifts in what calls to you, what falls away, and what returns in a new form.
Following what draws your attention is part of the practice. A passage from a retreat may resonate for reasons you cannot explain. A Q&A may speak directly to something you’re living. An article may unsettle a familiar perspective. These movements show you how your understanding is unfolding. Letting yourself be guided to explore what attracts, irritates, or unsettles you can reveal more about your practice than any plan you might make.
It’s also important to step away. When the material feels dense, saturating, or no longer alive, leaving is part of the process. Time and distance allow things to settle. When you return, you meet the site with a different mind, and different things speak to you. The rhythm of engagement and rest is itself a form of practice.
Having a teacher is an important part of practice. A website cannot play that role, and Unfettered Mind does not try to. At the same time, many people practise without guidance from a teacher, with only occasional contact, or in circumstances where guidance is not available. Unfettered Mind has always been a place for those whose paths lie outside established institutions. The site cannot replace a teacher, but it can offer an environment in which questions can clarify and practice can take root and deepen.
As your relationship with the site matures, the way you move through it changes. You look less for answers and more for clarity. You rely less on instruction and more on your own capacity and knowing. You recognise patterns—both in the material and in yourself. The labyrinth becomes a mirror, with the ebb and flow of your attention revealing much about how you live the practice.
In this way, Unfettered Mind becomes a companion. Not a guide or a teacher standing outside you, but a world you enter whenever you need to listen more deeply. Each time you come back, you walk a different path, even if you revisit the same material. What you notice changes. What matters changes. You change. The companionship lies in this ongoing conversation between your practice and the material, unfolding quietly over months and years.