Why we sit…
Today -right now, this moment- I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to deal with the intricacies of daily life, don’t want to deal with the daily strife, the details, the complications. I’m tired of dealing with others’ egos and frustrations and expectations and needs, and I’m tired trying to manage all of it according to the rules of our existing societal structures when I know –deeply and thoroughly *know*– that other “rules” are the Truth, and this experience is just the merest glimmer of Reality, shrouded in Illusion.
Still, I want to be somewhere else. Still, I want to be “home”, unbothered, unbound, uncomplicated, United. Whole. Complete.
Yet, despite the temporary frustration of dealing with the details of this plane, I know that I am United, Whole, Complete and Uncomplicated. I know that I am One. I am Whole. I know that all of this… all these details and intricacies and egos and frustrations and joys and celebrations and triumphs… is part of the One, in its glorious manifestation on this planet. These are the thoughts that runs through my head like a mantra today. These are the thoughts to which I return time and time again today. These are the thoughts that give me strength and perspective today, despite the obstacles, and despite the frustrations. Because I know better than to believe the illusions of this realm, of this experience. I know better than to believe the egos and manufactured details of others’ experiences and expectations and frustrations. I know better.
Sometimes, though, that doesn’t make dealing with the realities of this experience much easier. Perhaps, it is even harder, simply because I *know* that there is another, deeper, Reality…
But here we are, in this reality, bound -at least to some degree- to its rules and expectations.
And so I remind myself of some of these Ultimate Truths, reciting them like a mantra, if that is what I need to do.
And this is why I go to my zafu and still my mind in meditation. And this is why I remember…
*Namaste*
-OMM
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