The ego wants to keep us involved with and limited by its small or petty grievances and worries. This keeps it fully employed.
It is not our smallness that scares us but our greatness. Or at least this threatens the ego which harvests its power and influence by keeping us in its confines.
It is as though this drop of water does not recognize it is actually the ocean.
Feel the ocean and recognize who we really are!
Every day in meditation need not be profound.
It may just be sitting, possibly feeling a bit stiller or maybe slightly more uplifted.
This, on the other hand, can be profound.
In meditation, when waves of joy, bliss, or love arise, ride them like a skilled surfer.
Be attentive so you recognize when they appear.
Try to stick with them the entire wave until they dissipate.
Then be ready and patient for the next uplifting wave to come up.
Other waves will arise–waves of sadness, fear, anger, pain….
We can choose to witness these as they arise and pass, and not ride them and not to get too carried away by them.
In this way, we train our being to do this both in and out of meditation and become, as a result, more joyful and loving.
We can make happiness more and more a habit.
In meditation, when waves of joy, bliss, or love arise, ride them like a skilled surfer.
Be attentive so you recognize when they appear.
Try to stick with them the entire wave until they dissipate.
Then be ready and patient for the next uplifting wave to come up.
Other waves will arise–waves of sadness, fear, anger, pain….
We can choose to witness these as they arise and pass, and not ride them and not to get too carried away by them.
In this way, we train our being to do this both in and out of meditation and become, as a result, more joyful and loving.
We can make happiness more and more a habit.
In meditation and yoga, when you drop into the space of stillness, relish it. Savor it.
Linger. Open to it, and smile.
Let go to its mystery.
The breath comes and goes
like wind.
We are, as the birds,
winging to nothingness.
The ground is our ground!
Can you hear the silence that holds the night noises?
This same silence holds our thoughts.
You can find it in the gap as one thought subsides, and another arises.
And between each inhale…
and exhale…
Trying hard to relax is an oxymoron!
In meditation,
as the mind quiets
and comes to rest in the heart,
there’s a feeling
of coming home.
