This week is all about alertness.
I’m not talking so much about wide awake caffeine fuelled, owl eyed, “I am not asleep” alertness.
I’m not talking so much about what many mindfulness teachers encourage you to do - being present and alert to the things of life: Your breath, the cup of tea in your hand, your body or surroundings … but something much subtler and yet more rewarding.
What exactly I am talking about I shall explain very soon. But first … read the topic, and I’ll talk more after.
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
- Henry Miller
Stillness, presence, that source of inner clarity and joy is here, always. Where are you?
Peace requires you to make a gentle, but definite, choice to bring your attention to it.
So, a simple homework task for you this week, just be as alert as possible to the source of peace.
How do you do that?
Use your Ascension Attitudes, those beautiful, simple phrases that align you, any time, any place, with your higher self. If you don’t know how to Ascend yet, use whatever meditation, mindfulness, prayer tools you got. Maybe just the breath? Wonderful.
Tune in. Be aware of the presence of Now. GENTLY, without trying or straining. When the Attitude or your technique/tool is gone, it’s no longer there at all, and you realise you're off thinking, gently bring it back in once again.
Notice. How does it form or arise? Where does it come from? Where does it go to? What happens next?
Develop a fascination with what happens.
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Do you see the distinction? The one that I talk about above?
I’m not talking so much about being present to the thingsof life. No at all. I’m talking about being present to the presence of Now. The essence of this moment – not the things that it contains.
A crucial distinction.
Now: There have been times of your life where you’ve been very close to this. It’s been obvious. There have times where it hasn’t been obvious at all. You’ve been further away, sometimes so far away it seems like you have lost it (you haven’t - it just seems that way).
Your whole practice is all about becoming so familiar with the presence of Now that you never leave it.
In order to do that, gentle alertness is required. No force, no effort, just a sense of curiosity about it.
Alright?
Give it a go: Wherever you find yourself, whatever you’re doing. Eyes closed, eyes open: be alert to this.
This week: Be alert!
Questions? Fire away!
Go well
Arjuna
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