Map to Our Worth

Meditation is deceptively simple.  There is really nothing to do. We sit in stillness and know we are sitting.  The mind wanders off and when we catch it wandering we use it as a reminder to continue paying attention. Meditation and mindfulness ask us to remember why we are attempting anything.

There is a map of the mind in the ancient texts that chart the path where the mind can be developed, where qualities can be grown out of a willingness to question one’s own instinctive attractions and aversions. From The Buddha who had the paradoxical insight of the difficulty to remain comfortable in the moment because we are afraid of uncertainty. 

The present is in motion, not static.  We forget this when faced with a challenge.  We attempt to fix, reorganize, get to the end it of -  when what we are really doing is resisting life, cutting off a part of our Self.  Said another way, the path is the path not the destination we arrive at.  Our arriving is in our consciousness, our awakening and the capacity for compassion to the moment we are in. 

It is easy to lose remembrance, to become overwhelmed by challenges small and big and start to believe life is not a regenerative force, but instead that it’s something we need to resist against.

While the science of meditation, mindfulness and breath has been touted as ways to release stress, relieve tension and lower blood pressure - inside their techniques are the ways (Buddhist Upayas) that we gain insight to the places that we avoid, numb, distract from and grow the ability to feel, deal and heal – giving us the kind of peace, calm and clarity that we can continually return to when we feel that we’ve lost our balance.  Experienced as having a great day, then waking up the next to feel as though we are out of flow or stuck once again. 

In meditation we set out for comfort, in the way we sit, in the physical sense so that we may be with or honor what our current fear is in a way that we nourish or paved the path to return to remembrance of who we really are underneath that obstacle – any time we need.

Meditation shows us our worthiness. 
It clears the overgrown fears on our path so that we can continually know how to return to the field of possibility. 
Shows us the wisdom in what we are feeling.
Meditation returns us to our inner compass, our intuition, our own guidance and that life is inherently intelligent, that it is for us, not against us.

When hearing, seeing and experiencing is attuned to it. 

When we listen.

In stillness.

From the path,
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