Reflections from our Meditation:
August 24th 2013
" If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite."
William Blake
August 24th 2013
" If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite."
William Blake
Keep your meditation time as a special, sacred time for you to enter, and find refuge from the day to day world. Allow it to be the place where you find space within yourself to detach from the mind, a space where you can simply witness its' functioning, processing, and patterns with wonder and interest so that you remain open and willing to really reflect on what you find and learn about yourself from it. This is the beginning of cultivating that most intimate relationship wherein the universal "I" or higher self can heal, teach, and transform the small "I" or ego self that battles, struggles, and suffers to find wholeness and peace. Know that this is the practice for you to transcend the day to day duality that the ego thrives in, that world of opposites where it is pushed and pulled between highs and lows, better and worse, love and hate, fear and courage. Your meditation is the laboratory where you transcend that "battling," that "drama" so that you can have rest and connect to what is the real truth: that it is your birthright to experience unity, oneness, and connection with all things, that you are not alone, you are not separate, you are not lacking in anything ever, that everything you truly need and desire is within that most sacred heart space. For you, in your natural, divine state that is directly experienced when you silence your mental thought waves, remember the sacred company, eternal connection, and wholeness within which you are part. As you tune into your breath inhaling life energy and affirmations that nourish and serve, you likewise exhale toxins and negativity that devitalize and don't serve. That brief pause between receiving and releasing, living and dying is the glimpse, a taste of what meditation is. Be steady and regular in your meditation, make it a habit, part of your daily routine and that pause, that suspension of mental chatter, will deepen and expand and your sense of time will fade. For that suspension is an example of the pure meditative flow that brings us to the riverbank of deep, eternal peace, joy, stillness, quiet, and oneness... That suspension of thought called meditation is medicine for the mind, body, and spirit because it "recalibrates" us, brings us deep into the healing mode of our parasympathetic nervous system and activates brain wave states that open the doorway to a cleansed perception, an inner knowing, pure realization, and liberating expansion of consciousness that dissolves the indoctrination, conditioning, and fear that limits us and keeps us down.
Take time and patience in your meditation to really receive, absorb, and feel the essence of being greater, wiser, compassionate, and empowered by the more loving presence you are developing within yourself. Allow the mind to come to this riverbank by taking each meditation as a unique journey all its' own, a journey back to that peaceful joy and still quiet wherein your true divine being can be seen. Look, do you see yourself more clearly than ever. Listen, do you hear the resonance in your own true, divine voice. Feel its' high vibration that comes through when the dulling beta waves and distractions and noise are put to rest. Wait patiently for its' alpha state of relaxation and calm to bring you into the vivid imagery and/or guidance of theta meditation where the lines between this world and that begin to merge. No longer in the droning monotony of the mundane life with its' push and pull to have this and leave that but, flow further still with trust, faith, and surrender to the highest source of life.... toward limitless possibilities of ecstasy and bliss by merging with the great, expanded mind of the one consciousness from which all life has come. Pay homage here, for you have arrived from traveling without to the sacred travel within. As Hafiz the famous Sufi poet might say, take off your coat...stay awhile, for you have arrived at the love which has no end.
Thank you for a beautiful meditation evening and honoring of our space and time together as one.
Take time and patience in your meditation to really receive, absorb, and feel the essence of being greater, wiser, compassionate, and empowered by the more loving presence you are developing within yourself. Allow the mind to come to this riverbank by taking each meditation as a unique journey all its' own, a journey back to that peaceful joy and still quiet wherein your true divine being can be seen. Look, do you see yourself more clearly than ever. Listen, do you hear the resonance in your own true, divine voice. Feel its' high vibration that comes through when the dulling beta waves and distractions and noise are put to rest. Wait patiently for its' alpha state of relaxation and calm to bring you into the vivid imagery and/or guidance of theta meditation where the lines between this world and that begin to merge. No longer in the droning monotony of the mundane life with its' push and pull to have this and leave that but, flow further still with trust, faith, and surrender to the highest source of life.... toward limitless possibilities of ecstasy and bliss by merging with the great, expanded mind of the one consciousness from which all life has come. Pay homage here, for you have arrived from traveling without to the sacred travel within. As Hafiz the famous Sufi poet might say, take off your coat...stay awhile, for you have arrived at the love which has no end.
Thank you for a beautiful meditation evening and honoring of our space and time together as one.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om to the diamond gem within you!!!!
An ancient mantra of Tibetan Buddhists Monks
Namaste and may the blessings of the evening shine through with each passing day!
Prema Devii
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