It all comes back to the statement:
Be Here Now
It really is as simple as that.
Often we hear the phrase:
Do your activities Zenfully…
If you do this earnestly
You will find how peaceful it is.
You’ll be amazed at how rich and fulfilling each precious moment becomes.
This is often difficult to do when we’ve arranged our lives to
always be jam packed with activity.
There are many phases of life that require just about every moment of our waking hours.
But,
Even in the busiest phases of life
There are countless mini moments of relative down time…
Waiting for the traffic light,
an elevator,
a meeting to start,
a Dr appointment…
These mini meditation moments can add up to
significantly keeping your groove going in a mindful ways.
If you have already established a depth of meditation in your Practice…
Then you’ll be able to quickly settle into a flow.
We can assume that life will be long
If not…
It won’t matter, since
Everything is Always Already Alright
As far as our eternal being goes.
That’s not we are trying to work with
All we know is the ego we think we are.
Once we become Liberated
It becomes know experientially that there is no such self.
There is only pure conscious
It plays out as Awareness.
Similar to how a mirror naturally reflects what is in front of it…
Our True Nature is aware
The mirror does not think about what it reflects
It does not add biase or mental dialog like our thinking minds do…
So,
When we abide in our True Nature…
We just allow whatever is… to simple be.
In the phase of life in which an aspirant dedicates themselves to
deepening their perspectives of mindfulness
One way is to drop out of our busyness
And engage with a spiritual retreat that shelters us from all distractions.
However,
A house holde can do the same by arranging their days and nights in such a way
that they can achieve a very deep one pointed mindfulness in meditation.
A long morning sit.
Some yoga which flexes the body and keeps the mind on point.
The point is
Staying in the I am state of pure awareness.
Then having a morning meal, in which
there are no distractions such as the news or social media.
Then another mid-day meditation.
More yoga or walking meditation.
Anything during the day can be a meditation
So long as the mind stays on point on pure awareness
without the monkey mind adding biases and endless thought tangents.
A sunset meditation
Can be either sitting or sunset gazing
With no thoughts or mental contemplations.
After dinner and before bed,
A form of Yoga Nidra or
a form of the Buddha’s sweeping meditation.
Then,
Just before sleep,
Set a strong intention of following this Practice in
sleep, dreams and the dreamless state.
Often,
One will then dream of continuing the meditation practice.
Becoming lucid during the night
will add a profound effectiveness to the ‘Practice.
Before long,
The effort of meditation will slide into
The effortless aspect of Insight meditation…
The Jhana states of higher human consciousness.
When the first “breakthrough” is experienced
It will be profound.
During these states
No thinking is happening… nor possible.
It feels like you are blissfully floating away on a cosmic raft
Floating, drifting, weight less, timeless
And most profoundly
The sense of there being a “self†that is in control and
calling all the egotistical thoughts
Becomes replaced with a disembodied aspect.
But,
None of this will register while in this higher state of consciousness
Only later,
After the Parvastha ‘after glow fades
Can one even start to contemplate what just happened.
This Parvastha ‘after glow can itself feel like
the cosmic raft is still taking you away.
In this groove
You can’t move yet, you don’t want to move.
Physical and mental pliancy is the blissful nature of this state.
Even once this first breakthrough is experienced
And numerous others follow
There is still a long way to go to achieve the final fruition of the ‘Path.
But,
The chaos of the material world will never have the crippling grip they had before.
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