tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650114323461268088.post8035894342504277633..comments2024-03-24T03:12:21.128-04:00Comments on Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mysticism: Reality Asserts ItselfLance Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504850608959937357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650114323461268088.post-23063266024012670582019-01-27T12:25:52.315-05:002019-01-27T12:25:52.315-05:00To have the knowledge rooted deep within that we a...To have the knowledge rooted deep within that we are eternal is a strong take on reality that all, at some point struggle to accept or wrap around fully and completely. Not like holding money in hand, jewels, property and other impermanence of this time spent here in flesh and blood. We are geared to see, feel, taste, and touch to believe. <br />Nice lines I heard lately. "we are all from the same electricity lighting up different bulbs." and...."to be human and to be hurt are the same thing." <br />Our power is in our emotions and thoughts. I have to lean on the fact though, that we get out alive. We choose how awake or alive by how well we connect with our emotions and thoughts while in this state of flesh and blood. Death is not reality it's a learned word of society to cause confusion and pain in thoughts and emotions. This I believe to be truth. To each their own thoughts and emotions to help them find their own way back to the oneness from which they came, hopefully more in-tuned from having spent time here exercising the study o love.Samnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650114323461268088.post-75463154771653898102019-01-22T13:46:05.516-05:002019-01-22T13:46:05.516-05:00Beautifully written. Thank you. I’m once again ins...Beautifully written. Thank you. I’m once again inspired by your writing.<br />Yes . To be awake long enough to enjoy the inherent ecstasy in the fabric of life. It awaits our discovery. Will we be awake or still sleeping? Is that the deepest root of our fear? Waking up by shedding the non important distractions proves a worthy path for those willng to let stillness be the sword. Illusion is eager to speak. Let it go on by and allow the faint whisper of “one love” to be the sound that calls to us. The raw and simple beauty of life both visual and felt is impermanent. We can not make it linger, it is already always there. Shall we be awake enough to enjoy awe and wonder? Shall we be still enough, long enough to know? In our one microscopic view of the world we are given a privilege to see outwardly. We are invited to go inwardly in sorrow, in loss and in prayer. Do we know what we are looking at? Will we be awake enough to capture the visual luminosity of everything once and again? and again? <br />Is the luminosity fleeting or are we changing? Duality of thought shortens our vision as it does our breathing. It is persistent. Our eyes make for small windows that are capable of peering into the infinite.Outward and inward. Privilege.<br />Expanded consciousness allows prescious and fleeting “seeing” with its dazzle and promise of more liberation and more beauty. Wisdom grows from out of the silences in stillness. Life is found in all the spaces between thoughts.The space between moments of impermanence. Change. Ebb and flow. Life. Death. <br />Our work is to unlearn the fear of not being able to “keep” a falling star, to understand we cannot put it in our pocket for a rainy day. Meanwhile we become aware that we are Stardust....& we are connected and we are impermanent and fear wasn’t skillful at helping us know what to do or not to do.KDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01875258344812435027noreply@blogger.com