“Be Here Now”

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 realitive ‘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 holder” 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 stil 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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