June 17, 2009
Take as long as you need to do this meditation. There is no time
limit or restriction with this powerful visualization. You may
experience very deep emotions in the process.
Imagine yourself anchoring yourself into the cool ground as tree
roots. Expand your energy downward pulling / allowing the energy to
flow from the higher chakras down through the top of your head. While
doing so, expanding your roots to deep within the earth's center.
Embrace the earth's core with these roots. Feel the love stream
downward as you are the conduit of this love towards the Earth.
Now visual the animals of the earth...a filled ball of
interconnecting love that continues to flow through you..it now is an
Perfect Embrace of unconditional divine love within the Earth to the animals.
Now allow the roots to slowly morph from inside to the outside into
soft tender hands that gentle cradle the animals. Is is a feeling of
holding a newborn baby, you are a mother or father to the precious
animals of Earth!! Feel the Love flowing through you to these cosmic
hands. Hold them, cradle them, let your love caress the animals in warmth
and tenderness.
Shift your vision to the Earth and surround her with a white auric-glow.
Expand this glow...Allow this auric-glow of the Earth to
gently pulse in your hands...leading into a gentle pulsing heart-beat
rhythm extending this love-beat to the animals.
Allow this beating of divine love and tenderness to infuse the energy
grid, literally seeing this grid expand and contract around the earth
within this auric-glow. This grid connects all things: plants,
animals, people and places. You may feel many emotions of anger,
hate, resentment and fear - the feelings of so many in the world.
Take those emotions and transmute them into Love and continue being
the conduit of light sending back 10-fold of love to every negative
emotion.
Know that the love you have directed towards the center of the Earth and
to our animal family is a heart beat itself to heal the Earth and all of her inhabitants.
We are all connected, connected to each other.
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Meditation
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Posted by Wanda El
February 3, 2009
If the whole vista of the spiritual journey lay before us we would see
that it divides into three stages, each culminating in a remarkable
discovery. These are profound experiential discoveries, not intellectual
ones. They bring a different way of seeing life and the power to make our
words and deeds compatible with this new vision. Mere belief or theory is
never enough; we must change ourselves. As one Christian mystic observed,
"Our knowledge is as deep as our action."
Language cannot describe these inner experiences very well. When I say
stages, I am only approximating. There are no sharp boundaries; everything
takes place gradually over a long period. But perhaps a few analogies will
make these discoveries easier to grasp.
In the first stage, we discover experientially that we are not the
body.
Not the body? A startling realization! We have been lured into
believing precisely the opposite: that we are essentially bodies,
and that a worthwhile life is one well packed with sense-stimulation and
pleasure, with all the delights of food and drink, sun and surf, luxurious
fabrics and devastating fragrances.
What is the body then? Let me put it this way. I have a tan Nehru
jacket of worsted wool made about ten years ago in Hong Kong. It fits me
nicely, and I give it proper care: I don’t drop it in a heap on a chair;
I button it, smooth it out, and hang it up carefully in the closet so it
will last several years more.
But when I wear this tan jacket, I always have another jacket on
underneath: a brown one made in Kerala, India. It fits even better – not
a seam anywhere – and has brown gloves to match. I take good care of it,
too.
Now, you wouldn’t confuse me with my tan Nehru jacket, would you?
Well, I have discovered after some years of meditation that this brown
Kerala jacket, my body, is not me either, but simply something I wear. In
fact, though you can’t see me do it, I have leaned how to take it off
during meditation, leaving consciousness of the body behind. When
meditation is over, I put it on again so that I may have the privilege of
serving those around me. Someday my tan jacket will wear thin and have to
be put aside. And someday too my brown jacket will no longer be useful for
service, and I will have to put it aside in the great transformation we
call death.
The discovery that you are not the body has far-reaching consequences.
For one thing, you no longer see black or brown or white people, but
people with all kinds of beautifully colored jackets. You no longer
identify people with their color - or their age or sex or hairstyle or any
other peripheral matter like money or status. You begin to awaken to the
central truth of life, that all of us are one.
Then, too, you develop the capacity to see clearly the body's needs and
how to provide for them wisely. You will not be taken in, for example, by
just the taste of food, or by its color, or texture, or the sound it makes
. . . or the sound the advertiser makes on its behalf. If the senses set
up a clamor for junk food you can say affectionately, "Sorry,
friends, that's not fit for you." The senses may be disappointed at
first, of course, but your body will be grateful: "He really takes
good care of me!"
Please do not think this means you lose your appreciation of food.
Actually, it will increase. When you can change your eating habits at
will, you not only enjoy wholesome food, you have the satisfaction of
taking good care of your body. All the other things we charitably call
food will leave you unsatisfied.
Wise choices in food, exercise, sleep - all these enhance your health.
You feel vital, alive; fatigue leaves without saying goodbye. Minor ills
like colds and flu will brush you lightly, if at all. Chronic complaints
often dissolve, and you are largely shielded from many serious diseases
like hypertension and heart disease. All this prolongs life and keeps you
active, perhaps until the last day of this mortal life. hi every
tradition, sages often retain their vigor into their eighties and
nineties.
In the first stage of meditation, then, we discover that our bodies are
really garments we wear - or, if you like, vehicles in which we ride.
All these bodies of ours are just cars moving about - some compacts,
some big sedans. Some of them can dash away from a traffic light; others
take a while to get going, especially in the morning. Most were made in
America, but we have a refreshing mixture of imports too.
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not
our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery:
we are not our minds either.
If this body is like the body of a car, the mind is the engine - the
most important part of the vehicle. As such, we ought to give it special
attention and care. After all, you can get along with a Model T body look
at the last years of Albert Schweitzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Bernard
Shaw - if you have a Ferrari engine. But so many people who want a Ferrari
body are content to keep an old Model T engine putt-putting along inside
it. Most of their attention goes to externals: chrome hubcaps, bordeaux
cherry vinyl seats, geodesic paint jobs, velveteen steering wheel covers,
little dolls that shake their hula skirts in the back window. What is the
good of all that if the pistons are worn out and your engine won't
perform? We need minds that are powerful, lucid, capable of
discrimination.And we need minds that will follow directions, not ones that are
rebellious. Suppose I come out one morning, start up my car, and drive off
to give a talk on meditation in Milpitas, south of San Francisco. As soon
as I cross the Golden Gate Bridge, my car veers east towards Interstate
80. I keep trying to turn the wheel, but there is tremendous resistance -
the steering mechanism is ignoring me. "Milpitas!" I protest.
"We're supposed to be going to Milpitas!" But the car only roars
insolently, "Reno! Reno! We're going to Reno!" Then I think I
hear it snicker, "Why not sit back and enjoy the ride?"
Would we put up with that? Well, no . not from our cars. But most of us
do from our minds. In theory we would like the mind to listen to us
obediently, but in fact it will not - chiefly because we have never taught
it how. Augustine's words speak plainly: "I can tell my hand what to
do and it will do it instantly. Why won't my mind do what I say?"
Everywhere there are a few people who will not accept this condition,
who see it as a loss of freedom, a kind of bondage. My grandmother, my
spiritual teacher, knew nothing about cars, but she understood the mind.
When I would give tit-for-tat to others, wax angry because they were angry
or standoffish because they stood off, she would say, "Son, when you
act that way, you remind me of a rubber ball. Throw it against a wall and
it has to come back." It took a while, but I finally resolved not to
be a rubber ball in life.
At the outset I said that the spiritual life has nothing to do with the
paranormal and the occult. But I do have one ability that seems to some
people a kind of miracle, though it is simply a skill that anyone can
develop through years of meditation: I can tell my mind what to do.
Where is the miracle? As Shakespeare's Hotspur would say, "Why, so
can I, or so can any man. " Well, here it is: when I tell my mind
what to do, it obeys. If a craving should arise for something my body does
not need, I smile and say politely, "Please leave," and it
leaves. If something big tries to move in - say, an angry thought - I
don't bandy words; I say plainly, "Out!" It goes immediately.
Meditation will do for you what it has done for all who practice it
regularly: enable you to steer your car expertly. If you want to stay in
one lane and cruise, your mind will obey you. If you want to change lanes
or turn right or left or even make a U-turn, your mind will respond. When
your mind does that at command, you have mastered the art of living. You
are no longer dependent on external circumstances; you can decide how you
want to respond, whatever happens. If a friend acts thoughtlessly, for
example, you don't have to dwell on it; you can fix your attention on the
good in that person instead. If you begin to slide into depression, you
simply change your mind - you have learned how - and restore your
equanimity and cheerfulness. You can now think what you want to think, and
every relationship, everything you do, benefits enormously.
Posted by Wanda El
January 8, 2009
Every sincere
effort is registered in the divine consciousness. Your duty as a
devotee is to accept whatever He sends you—and, for that matter,
whatever He doesn't send. God alone knows what past karma keeps
you from perceiving Him right now. He may want you to finish up
your karma in this life, before He gives you eternal bliss in Him.
Do not be anxious
if you don't have meditative experiences. The path to God is not
a circus! Don't even be anxious about such fruits of meditation
as inner joy and peace. Everything will come in God's time. Meanwhile,
consider meditation, too, as a form of karma yoga: action without
desire for the fruits of action. Meditate above all to please
God, not yourself.
In meditation,
you must go beyond thought. As long as you are busy thinking, you
are in your rational mind, on the conscious plane. When you sleep
and dream, you are on the subconscious plane, and in your astral
body. And when your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness,
it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your
ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul's existence.
Don't waste
the perception of God's presence, acquired in meditation, by useless
chatting. Idle words are like bullets: they riddle the milk pail
of peace. In devoting time unnecessarily to conversation and exuberant
laughter, you'll find you have nothing left inside. Fill the pail
of your consciousness with the milk of meditative peace, then keep
it filled. Joking is false happiness. Too much laughter riddles
the mind and lets the peace in the bucket flow out, wasting it.
Meditate regularly,
and you will find a joy inside that is real. You will then have
something you can compare to sense pleasures. That comparison will
automatically make you want to forsake your sorrow-producing bad
habits. The best way to overcome temptation is to have something
more fulfilling to compare it with.
Never count
your faults. Just think whether you love God enough. He doesn't
mind your faults. He minds your indifference.
Many people
meditate till they feel a touch of peace, but jump up then and leave
their meditation for their activities. That's all right, if you
have important work waiting for you, for it is always better to
meditate before any activity, that you may feel at least
some peace as you work. Whenever possible, however, sit for
a long time after your practice of the techniques. That is when
the deepest enjoyment comes. Intuition is developed by continuously
deepening that enjoyment, and, later on, by holding on to its calm
aftereffect.
God answers
all prayers. Restless prayers, however, He answers only a little
bit. If you offer to others something that isn't yours to give,
won't that be a merely empty gesture? If you pray to God, similarly,
but lack control over your own thoughts, that prayer will be without
power. Thoughts and feelings, both, must be focused when you pray.
Otherwise God will meet your little trickle with another trickle
of His own! He will dole His answers out to you in a teaspoon. Too
often, prayer is more like the halfhearted mumbling of a beggar
than the confident, loving demand of a friend.
You won't find
God by making constant excuses: for example, saying, "When
I find a quiet place, I will meditate." That is not at all
the way to get there! If you tell yourself, however, "Right
now I will plunge into deep meditation!" you can be
there in a moment. When you are really sleepy, you have no difficulty
in sleeping no matter where you are. When a person is in love, he
finds no difficulty in thinking of his beloved; rather, it is difficult
not to think of her, even to the point of ignoring his work.
Be in love with God! It is easy to meditate deeply, when your love
for Him is deep enough.
Posted by Wanda El
December 31, 2008
You are sitting alone in a quiet place practicing meditation.
Slowly, the rush of thoughts slows down. The silence gaps between one
thought to the other get longer. You are beginning to experience
relaxation and inner peace. There are a few itches, some pain or
tension in your body, but as your concentration deepens, you become
less conscious of the body and its sensations.Now you feel calm and happy. Worries and cares disappear. You are
still conscious of your surroundings, but as if transported into a new
dimension. A few thoughts may still enter your mind, but they are weak
now, and you can easily disregard them. As your meditation gets deeper,
less and less thoughts claim your attention, until they cease. You feel
bliss and peace now.
Though you are not thinking now, and you can completely ignore your
surroundings, your consciousness is alive.
You experience yourself now
as pure essence, not as this or that. You forget about your physical
life, family, work, status or economic condition. There is no
identification with anything. You feel formless. Your consciousness is
now free from the body, emotions and mind.
Are you asleep now? No!
Are you daydreaming? No!
You are existing in an altered state of consciousness, which is different from the ordinary and familiar consciousness.Where are your thoughts, emotions and body? Only your consciousness exists now.
When the clouds of thoughts and emotions disappear during deep
meditation, the Consciousness shines alone.
You experience the "Great
Emptiness", which is full of happiness, consciousness, existence, life
and power. You experience Reality as it is.
Posted by Wanda El
December 29, 2008
Healing Power Meditation
Lay
down in a comfortable position with eyes closed. Breathe deeply,
feeling the power of the air moving inward and outward through your
nostrils. Sense the life-giving power of your breath, knowing that it
sustains you with health, radiance and love.
As
you breathe in, visualize a brilliant white light flowing inward
through your nostrils, quickly filling your entire body. As you
continue to breathe deeply, this powerful white light surges through
your being, enveloping all pain and fear in your body. Now exhale
through your mouth.
The light easily exits your body, gently taking
this pain away. Inhale the powerful healing light through the nostrils,
exhale the pain wrapped in light through the mouth. Continue this
breathing pattern, filling with light and releasing pain. Let the pain
and fear leave peacefully by thinking, I willingly release this energy. It is not my own. Repeat the healing statement
in your mind as you continue to breathe and release.
When
the release feels complete, the healing light slowly fades, lessening
in intensity.
Breathe normally through your nostrils, noticing how the
healing light still flows through your breath, imperceptible but always
present.
Now
bring your body, mind and spirit into alignment for optimum health by
visualizing a rose-colored light flow down from the heavens, embracing
your body. Say out loud, I willingly align with my divine state of health, wholeness and wellness. I am full and complete. Repeat the healing statement until
you feel whole and complete.
When you are ready, gently open your eyes, knowing that you are connected with your healing wisdom.
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