SILENCE, NOT AN ABSENCE OF WORDS BUT A PRESENCE OF AWARENESS !
Pleasant morning 🦚
~"I will make my Inner
environment perfect through meditation, that it be impervious to all
adverse outside influences. I will begin each day with meditation on the
Supreme Being." - Yogananda Paramahamsa.
~"Your
sincerity will guide you. Devotion to the goal of freedom and
perfection will make you live by wisdom, intelligence and active love." -
Swami Chinmayananda.
The real meditation is
how we live our life. Now is the time not to accept any idea before
bouncing it off our intuitive wisdom (Pashyanthi)...
-Does it
create acceptance, accommodative-ness, and blessings? Or does it create
fear, anxiety, worry, restlessness and helplessness?
-Does it
encourage love, kindness, peace, and unity? Or does it encourage
separateness, division, hate, self-centeredness and violence?
...If
we are vigilant and make a stern effort to SEE every thought when it
rises, we will soon find that we are going deeper and deeper into our
own inner self, where there is no need for our effort to reject thoughts
that are unhealthy & unnecessary!
Let's
not blame our karma. Instead, be someone who purely and flawlessly
practices the Dharma. Let's not blame temporary negative circumstances.
Instead, be someone who remains steadfast in the face of whatever
circumstances may arise. There is nothing outside of us. It's all an
inside game. If we get the inside right, the outside will fall into
place. Becos whatever we do, we do to ourselves.
The
main thing is to be free of negative emotions - desire, anger, etc.,
the 'six enemies' of the mind. Once the mind is free of them, the rest
will come easily. The psychological mind likes drama--because its
existence is dependent on conflict with WHAT IS...Opinions,
expectations, likes, dislikes, wants, aversions. An unaware mind is
drawn to drama...Awareness- is drama free.
A
life filled with joy and peace, free of suffering, is a spiritual
choice. It has little to do with the circumstances of our lives, and
much to do with how we choose to relate to those circumstances. Our
beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we
alter our perception, our version of reality. It is not our
circumstances that limit us. Rather it is our own beliefs and
perceptions that either imprison us...or grant us unbounded freedom.
Have a peaceful week ahead
T