tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650114323461268088.post4674603091436155479..comments2024-03-24T03:12:21.128-04:00Comments on Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mysticism: Standing at the Gateless GateLance Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504850608959937357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650114323461268088.post-64711265781296756232019-05-19T16:07:03.693-04:002019-05-19T16:07:03.693-04:00Obviously what has worked for others as an encoura...Obviously what has worked for others as an encouragement doesn't work for you. At no time did I feel dragged down by referring to past challenging experiences. I didn't feel crippled or negative as I related my experiences. My heart was open, my body relaxed, my mind clear as a bell. I was actually feeling quite "positive" as I sat there the laptop in the midst of a sunny day. I had "everything I needed" in those moments.<br /><br />I'm sorry that such pieces aren't helpful to you, that they elicit a negative reaction on your part Perhaps that is tied to our own interdependent past. <br /><br />IMHO, ultimately it isn't a matter of "letting go." It's a matter of letting it be. It seems to me that there is a subtle but real difference. In those moments reality transcends all of our notions of positive and negative. <br />One Love,<br />Lance Lance Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174480565578669357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650114323461268088.post-15632134798488383972019-05-19T09:55:35.027-04:002019-05-19T09:55:35.027-04:00No two people will react in the same way to the sa...No two people will react in the same way to the same scenario going on in their life. Not even identical twins!<br /> Most people have suffered or are suffering discomforts in one degree or another, always! I'm sorry you seem to have not put that baggage down, but seem to pick through it, allow it around to clutter your mind, pass it by your lips as energy going out calling for more of the same to come back, now and again as you carry it along through new experiences and new beginnings and endings.<br /> Anyone can slow the dizziness of carousel they are on by simply choosing to focus on something that helps them feel better. It's one thing to speak about living in the moment, but personal practice means 'letting go' in even just talking about the past if it's crippling your thoughts in the present. I find it a weak example for progress. Life is a journey, an adventure, a learning as you go trip, for everyone. As everyone sees, feels, and understands the journey differently.<br /> We all want to be loved, we all want to know that it's the only thing there is that unites us as we rise ABOVE our very own muddy experiences that have gotten us where we are today. <br />I am feeling a pity party for one going on here, as an example of how to practice being at peace with ones self. Let it go, you have done great things during your time here, focus on the positive, know you have survived the negative by having turned it to positive. Try to stop speaking of your hard times, maybe you are holding yourself back from even greater things by insisting on carrying this baggage. Negativity rears it's face in the most twisted ways to get our attention away from progress that could be made. <br />Sometimes reality is the moments wake up call in a close encounter. Next time you find your thoughts dragging you into that baggage of past, even if it's just to pat yourself on the back for having done a good job of getting out of it, think this, as I have found it alarming wake up......if I were to die in the next moment, what were my last thoughts? Negative or positive? constructive or destructive? We only have this moment. With What energy type do you want to leave here? Staying positive is not easy, that's why it is said the path is narrow, but all of it is about being 'fully' present. When we are that, we realize we have everything we need for the moment! <br /><br />Such strong examples of pain going out, ending with 'just takes practice' to over come is ..... a lopsided pick me up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com