Evening lull
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The relentless cathedral
The soothing breeze
Meditation, not all bliss and roses
2013/11/07 Leave a comment
A very common misunderstanding about meditation that can lead to discouragement is that it’s supposed to be all bliss and roses. That is simply not the case on the ground, so to speak.
Sometimes meditation is about being with the dark and ugly and anxious parts of our being too. Meditation is about being with the whole spectrum of human psyche and emotion. We cannot know ourselves without becoming intimate with those parts too.That means it’s just not always fun or peaceful or calm to practice meditation. Though it can lead to all those things in time. It can help us learn to live more skillfully in general.
– En excerpt from Monica Cassani´s post
When Fear dies Truth arises
2013/06/15 1 Comment
Thomas Ross:
I’ve been thinking a lot about fear.
Someone told me that when you open yourself to the truth, the truth of who you are,
there can be no fear. I think of the Tao passage – when you hold nothing back from life,
you become ready for death. No fear.
Me:
As I said, IDEA – thinking – is fear. Of course we can think or meditate about fear,
but in most cases, our pondering enhances fear.
It´s a very insidious process.
What is “Truth”? I am not merely playing with words here:
What do we really know about truth?
Truth for most of us is a “negative” or “positive” projection, isn´t it so…?
“Holding nothing back from life” is surrender. Surrender to the fact that
we don´t know. Eventually it´s an act of “faith” – it is the immediate grasping
of the fact that thinking can neither “seize” nor convey the truth.
Idea must die – that´s what is meant with “you become ready for death”.
When Idea dies, Projection dies, and Fear along with it; and then, and only then,
Truth can arise.
Now, for most of us, this is the hardest thing to fathom as our identity is basically
an Idea,
Letting go of our Ideas – which are eventually only misconceptions – it feels like dying.
What do we have left then…?
Many people prefer to die physically, than confronting this giving up on ideas – that
regarding the immense difficulty of facing “the ultimate predicament” – letting go
of “identity”.
So…Only when Idea dies, Fear withers along with it, and Truth naturally emerges.
Have you got it?
2013/02/22 Leave a comment
Krishnamurti talking about meditation:
It is like looking at a flower and smelling the flower. The flower is there, the beauty, the color, the loveliness of it. You look at it and pick it up and begin to tear it to pieces. And you do the same when you listen to the statement that in awareness, in attention, there is no observer, that if the observer is, then you have the problem of choice, conflict.
You hear that statement and the immediate reaction of the mind is, “How am I to do it?” So you are more concerned with the action of what to do about that statement than with actually listening to it. If you listen to it completely, then you are breathing the perfume, the truth of it. AND THE PERFUME, THE TRUTH, ACTS, not the “me”, that is struggling to act rightly. Have you got it?
Courtesy of Tomas (heartflow2013.wordpress.com)
This is the key insight
2012/05/09 Leave a comment
There is no reference point for where the true path is.
Julien Matei
