Slogan #5

Rest in the openness of the mind

Reflection:

Monday, Oct 11th, 2021
@Livonia - 8:47 AM

"When you finish sitting in meditation, if things become heavy and solid, be fully present and realize everything is actually pliable, open, and workable. This is an instruction for meditation in action, realizing that you don't have to feel claustrophobic because there is always lots of room, lots of space."

Pat Harada Linfoot

Begin to be fully aware of the sensations and the feelings that arise with the stories that are showing up. Sit with them, do not turn away. Perhaps practice with the body first. Stay with the sensations for a small amount of time then slowly increase the time you sit. At the same time, allow the breath to move with the sensations/feelings... until slowly you begin to breathe deeper, fuller and the breath allows space within the body so that the sensation can move too. Or, the breath begins to move it out of you through the exhale..

The breath slowly returns to equanimity, your own version of that. Perhaps, you heard the messages that your body was sending, if not... repeat.

Like a child of illusion, one can create stories and move between the stories seamlessly without becoming attached to what is there. To not be attached to what was creat

Sunday, May 19, 2024
@Michele - 21:26

I light a candle.
Take a sip of water.
Lay on the ground cushioned by my yoga mat and a blanket.
Cover my body put to my shoulders.
Soles of the feet planted on the floor wider than my hips.
Knees knocked into each other.
Left palm on my beating heart.
Right palm on my belly feeling the rise and fall of my breath.
I rest in the middle of the floor.
Relax into stillness.
Into the open unbiased space.

Rest.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.

Rumi