It was a long climb. I wanted to see for myself. This hermit of strange powers. I finally found him sitting all alone, meditating exuding an aura of pure bliss around him.
I sat down along side him in silence. 2 hours passed and i was restless. "Kind sir..." i asked "... i've come to learn from you and 've heard many good things about you ..."
He would smile and nod so slightly, eyes still closed seemingly indifferent. Another hour passed. In silence we understood each other.
I got up to leave. In my minor frustration, i asked "Kind sir, ... what purpose is that of a hermit to live away from the world and renunciating? What good does that do to the world or the community?"
More silence. It seems that he has answered me in silence. Not in language, not in words or any form or expression.
Days passed. A few good night's sleep. I was centred and rested. Back at work a colleague asked me "...so how was your holiday? How's that air fairy stuff of yours going? ... chuckles..."
I smiled. I surprised myself when i gave a brief discourse to him. It truly "came out of thin air"...
You see ... the hermit need not impress anyone and least of all himself. In the silence of his self-realisation through his meditative practices he has trained and renounced even himself. In surrendering utimately himself to the universe and all of nature ... he worries not and attunes to the present ... to his senses, even withdrawing his senses ... He has no need to think ... he does and be whatever the present moment presents itself in the ever flowing flux of the evolution of life.
He only has to touch the lives of a few seekers. Maybe just one - even none it would not have worried or bothered him at all. Through the magical influence of one or a few if lucky ... he passes on directly or indirectly what he has experienced as his first hand truth ...
You see, my truth can never be your truth and your truth can never affect mine. Unless of course it is experienced directly in your life and it has become a knowing ... no longer a belief but a personal truth. Direct personal experience - first hand, living truth.
I know i can ride the bike. I don't say i believe i can ride the bike. I only say that if i've not tried riding it yet. You get the picture? Together if you can ride the bike too, we can enjoy a bike ride together, right? We can appreciate the various makes of bicycles as well ... etc
If you have been to Crown Casino Melbourne you would have your own experience. Ask 100 patrons and they will give you 100 different answers of experience. The general gist may be there. "The truth" may be recorded but then ... life is an ongoing flux. It's all perception you say ...
Beyond perception ... and what is beyond perception? Beyond whose perception? Who is perceiving? Expressions and the context of language in communication is definitive. Anything definitive cannot define that which is infinite or the unknowable. Hence space, emptiness, taking meditative states into our daily activities is a start. It is a door to infinite dimensions of pure potentialities. Anything, yes anything imaginable and even unimaginable can happen. Even a little rest can hint that for you.
Miracles, healing, rebirth, self-realization...
When we take time out we create a space to have a little time to ourselves. In deep sleep, our bodies rejuvenates and heals itself ... The meditators take that state of deep sleep into their practices. Even more powerful are those practitioners who consciously take that meditative states of deep sleep into the spaces of their daily mundane activities and lives. This act of mindfulness permeates their lives and consciously make them aware of what's happening within them ... in their mind, their feelings, physical sensations ... and their environment.
I now take my body and mind to be a laboratory for active meditative states as i go about doing my work and daily activities. I watch my feelings, thoughts, physical sensations as i respond to every person, situation. I live in the present moment ... any time pain, hurt or fear hits me i know i going the wrong way ... i 'm either harbouring the past or projecting into the future. Guess what? It works everytime. This calm, tranquility that surpasses all description is free and quite simple - yet delusive if one tries too hard.
There is nothing to try or to obtain. One simply lets go ... and keep letting go. Keep on surrendering ... keep on forgiving ... forgiving oneself first ... then others. Do the uncomfortable, small niggling pesky ones first for a practice then one becomes a little bolder at letting go and forgiving and surrendering ... one takes on bigger fear, hurt and displeasure etc... Start small, baby steps first...
Ok, now take ownership. Stop blaming anyone else. There is always a little something that i should have done as an act of understanding. I could be a little kinder. Start there. Don't condemn yourself ... simply try avoiding the same mistakes again ... gently and lovingly ...
Be nice to yourself not at other's expense. Then be nice to others at your expense bit by bit and start seeing that the inconveniences that others caused are merely practices for you to your path to self-realization or self-healing.
I now take my body and mind to be a laboratory for active meditative states as i go about doing my work and daily activities. I watch my feelings, thoughts, physical sensations as i respond to every person, situation. I live in the present moment ... any time pain, hurt or fear hits me i know i going the wrong way ... i 'm either harbouring the past or projecting into the future. Guess what? It works everytime. This calm, tranquility that surpasses all description is free and quite simple - yet delusive if one tries too hard.
There is nothing to try or to obtain. One simply lets go ... and keep letting go. Keep on surrendering ... keep on forgiving ... forgiving oneself first ... then others. Do the uncomfortable, small niggling pesky ones first for a practice then one becomes a little bolder at letting go and forgiving and surrendering ... one takes on bigger fear, hurt and displeasure etc... Start small, baby steps first...
Ok, now take ownership. Stop blaming anyone else. There is always a little something that i should have done as an act of understanding. I could be a little kinder. Start there. Don't condemn yourself ... simply try avoiding the same mistakes again ... gently and lovingly ...
Be nice to yourself not at other's expense. Then be nice to others at your expense bit by bit and start seeing that the inconveniences that others caused are merely practices for you to your path to self-realization or self-healing.
