Sitting meditation is a gift I give myself.
My logical mind says there is no time to meditate since there is so much work to be done.
Cleaning is one of the things that I enjoy and every once in a while, in moments when I am absorbed in what I am doing, I have a glimpse of our interconnectedness with all that the eyes can see, all that there ever is, or was, our ignorance, the truth about suffering and the cause of suffering.
I have also come to one truth,that everything I have always wished for, prayed, has come true, which indicates that the material world is just a manifestation of what we think, what we envision.
That something comes from pure thought is true.
I have now realized that there are several things I am obsessed about: Constant cleaning, indicative of the inherent disorder in my mind, constant worrying about money, an insecurity, constant fear of the future that prevents me from enjoying the present, the now, the only truth and the only reality.
What I must do instead is accept the present, enjoy it to the fullest because there is only now.
In this life, if we realize that our life is finite, in this body, and yet eternal, for the spirit, the soul, the light, the essence, IT (as Alan Watts calls it) always comes back until we have reached perfection in which case we no longer have to come back.
Our existence in this lifetime is nothing but a school.
The school of life, where every encounter is a lesson, every moment is a lesson, then magically, our worries diminish, our fears fade, not completely, but our anger, our greed, the game of one-upmanship is reduced to a lesson and when we suffer, we can accept the suffering and let it pass.
We look at the past and we say "Oh, so much energy wasted.
" It is wasted enery only to the extent that we regret.
But what do we regret? Why do we regret? We think.
We believe that we could have done something else, but if only our judging minds will give up and realize that every moment is perfection in motion then there will be a space between the the judging and the events and we will realize that we always did what we could do at the time.
Even this moment that I am scrubbing the bathroom floor and the phone is ringing off the hook.
I wish that in this moment, my son would appreciate our black lab more, walk her more, pet her more.
While I expect it of him it is is I who has not done any of that today.
I have been so selfish ...
I think only in terms of I, I, I, me, me, me.
I am busy thinking of myself and how things affect me! Oh, I am the one who should develop compassion...
I pray with all of my heart that my heart be pure, that my mind be rid of all these clutter, that I am able to see things differently instead of being confined to this I that was created by my ego.
My logical mind says there is no time to meditate since there is so much work to be done.
Cleaning is one of the things that I enjoy and every once in a while, in moments when I am absorbed in what I am doing, I have a glimpse of our interconnectedness with all that the eyes can see, all that there ever is, or was, our ignorance, the truth about suffering and the cause of suffering.
I have also come to one truth,that everything I have always wished for, prayed, has come true, which indicates that the material world is just a manifestation of what we think, what we envision.
That something comes from pure thought is true.
I have now realized that there are several things I am obsessed about: Constant cleaning, indicative of the inherent disorder in my mind, constant worrying about money, an insecurity, constant fear of the future that prevents me from enjoying the present, the now, the only truth and the only reality.
What I must do instead is accept the present, enjoy it to the fullest because there is only now.
In this life, if we realize that our life is finite, in this body, and yet eternal, for the spirit, the soul, the light, the essence, IT (as Alan Watts calls it) always comes back until we have reached perfection in which case we no longer have to come back.
Our existence in this lifetime is nothing but a school.
The school of life, where every encounter is a lesson, every moment is a lesson, then magically, our worries diminish, our fears fade, not completely, but our anger, our greed, the game of one-upmanship is reduced to a lesson and when we suffer, we can accept the suffering and let it pass.
We look at the past and we say "Oh, so much energy wasted.
" It is wasted enery only to the extent that we regret.
But what do we regret? Why do we regret? We think.
We believe that we could have done something else, but if only our judging minds will give up and realize that every moment is perfection in motion then there will be a space between the the judging and the events and we will realize that we always did what we could do at the time.
Even this moment that I am scrubbing the bathroom floor and the phone is ringing off the hook.
I wish that in this moment, my son would appreciate our black lab more, walk her more, pet her more.
While I expect it of him it is is I who has not done any of that today.
I have been so selfish ...
I think only in terms of I, I, I, me, me, me.
I am busy thinking of myself and how things affect me! Oh, I am the one who should develop compassion...
I pray with all of my heart that my heart be pure, that my mind be rid of all these clutter, that I am able to see things differently instead of being confined to this I that was created by my ego.
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