Month: August 2021

WTF is Meditation? 🙏
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June 13, 2021
Is it vitamins for the heart and mind? An inner vacuum cleaner? A reboot technique? A technique to soften and/or un-attach from personal traumas? Creating a mind/heart set to reexamine situations in your life for lessons and/or opportunities? A method to heal whatever ails you or at least make it more manageable? A gift from the Eastern guru’s? A focus and development into an art of deepening our love of self and ability to love another more?

Why was this technique practically unheard of in the western world until it silently and gradually slipped in during the 60’s and 70’s with it’s Yoga and meditating techniques as well as it’s popularity of the music group, the Beatles and guru’s or Masters of the ‘spiritual’ from India like Yogananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Vivekananda, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (aka Osho), and the first popular American, guru Ram Das (Richard Alpert), etc.

Meditation (meditating is the act and art of non doing and ‘letting go’). It’s a process of getting to know yourself deeply and completely, both who you are inside and how you react to what is outside. Meditating is, in its many different techniques, a helper for you to enjoy yourself beyond the stresses and troubled moments to see that they are merely superficial. You will experience that your true nature, and the real you is actually very positive. You are really in the true sense a miracle of nature born to see and experience that.

The essence of meditation is just witnessing the body, mind and feelings without judgment. Modern humans, of eastern or western origin has changed so much that new methods are needed. Hence, many ancient methods of meditating are available that counter sitting and ‘just contemplating one’s belly button. Many methods besides forms of breathing and being still embody Yogic techniques and many pre meditative techniques that involve sounds, movements, aerobic exercises, etc. Infinite forms of meditating can be tailored to the individuals wants and needs.

Meditation is a very simple phenomenon. Meditation is not to do something, but to just be and not doing anything while being at your center. It’s a knack of un-disturbance, and being with the flow. Utter silence is its empowerment for more joy, clarity, vision, and creativity. To be the watcher and not the doer. Watchfulness and awareness, unclouded and not disturbed. A main thing to know is that meditation should be a fun thing to look forward too. It’s not often thought of, but coupling in deep love is perhaps the greatest meditation opportunity. Be the wordless watcher and experience who you really are.
Arhata~

Boiler Plate Love
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June 6, 2021

The door to creating a more exciting life is here!

Thinking and loving outside the herd mentality is to allow innovative thoughts and experiences to be expressed freely instead of being replaced into more routine, humdrum ways in lockstep often to the way of the masses. Boiler plate in written verbal usage is to have preset forms for convenient use that need no imagination because they are ready made for whatever situation that presents itself. Legal forms are often ‘boiler plate’.

Being creative with the expression ‘boiler plate’ is to see it as a pattern or standardization of behavior that is a deadening of living and even loving. It can be a loss if `Universities as well as all schooling’, don’t promote creative, imaginative thinking outside the box. Why fall into line with ‘mass thinking’ which I call ‘boiler plate’ or copycat thinking, living, and just being like the perceived way that everyone else is doing. It’s being in a rut where imaginative ways are left in the dark of thinking and positive behaving is rarely ‘outside the box’. It’s ok to not be ok and choose to make life exciting to live.

Most of the world is made up of ‘nice people’, however most fall into routines especially with behaviors that become habits, often habits of comfort such as those falling asleep with the many elements of love, their deepening and improvements becoming all but forgotten and just gathering dust. There are endless ways to express love, talking, communicating, feelings, etc. – sadly most take love as more a word than a potential daily experience. Fear? Laziness? Ignorance? Taking it for granted, etc.

Why wait a life time for love of yourself when it’s already there to ignite, and the good news is that the un-ignited embers of love never go out. When you take a moment to power down the invisible corridors of the future where windows and doors of opportunity that are here right now. life opens up beyond what’s it been. They are hidden and you must understand that putting off ‘til tomorrow, that never comes, can be unconsciously slipping into the prisons of resistance. The opportunities to ‘breakout’ as year goes into years, become darker and darker.

To love is nothing, to be loved is something, but to love and to be loved by the one you love, that is EVERYTHING. Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. – Rumi. Time to wake up from the swamps and take a conscious trip to the stars. Better said? Love yourself not from the swamps of love, but to the stars of love. Your thoughts, love, and just living can become like tirelessly dreading water. Wake up and fly with your heart as the compass! The door is open!! Arhata~