Blazing Light, Love's Song

Our practice revisits a variety of components of meditation practice through a year. Each one and each cycle of re-engaging is in support of deepening, and of opening newly yet again. That’s one of the beauties of meditation practice: the potential of more intimate (deep) and more expanded (open) on an ongoing basis, ever opening to essential qualities and attributes of Being.

Peace, peaceful, at ease, gentle, spacious, and smooth are qualities that you probably have experienced – many times. Even if only a few times, the quality was unmistakable; and that is the case because meditation opened into your essence of Being.

Love or empathy, being embraced, or a feeling of union-wholeness, or oneness with all beings might have also come to the foreground in meditation. Some people are established enough in both technique and openness that such qualities become states, states that sustain. The length of time is not the true measure. The duration of suchness is, effortlessly wafting through space-time, resonating with all beings.

We are revisiting buddhi. Buddhi? Yes; and it will purposefully remain undefined by concepts so as to newly open to buddhi for its qualities of Being.

Humor and laughing with one’s self about one’s self is not only valuable as a human being but it is a skill. In other words, it seems that we have to learn to lighten up with ourselves. Distinct from learning carpentry or a musical instrument which require exactitude, humor with one’s self requires loosening, letting go of self-prescribed exactitudes.

Because of two times falling in one month, both producing stay-at-home injuries, plus advancing MS (the cause of the falls), let go and laugh is the only realistic and kind self-prescription for this person. Being bothered, how does that assist? Getting frustrated, not my thing. Laugh and feel the evaporation of what was; or, like waking from a dream, you simply get on with your day.

Causes. Causes of contentment: deep abiding contentment. Causes of suffering: disquiet, disappointment, displeased, discontent and discontented. Humor with one’s self is in the contentment basket.

Today’s meditation is the podcast. The video is a follow up as more practitioners responded to “what do you want from your practice?” “How can I assist?”