HOW TO USE EVERYTHING YOU DO IN LIFE AS A SIMPLE AND SATISFYING MEDITATION PRACTICE
A real personal daily meditation practice is simple, immediate and enhances every aspect of life with serene satisfaction.
Lovingly written, produced and published by Chinmayan
THE DAWNING LIGHT Volume 7, Issue Number 549
Spiritual Soup Kitchen Section Number 71
Thursday, October 26, 2023
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A real meditation practice is simple, immediate and enhances every aspect of life with serene satisfaction
The End Of Another Golden Day
The sun is getting to the end of this day’s journey across the sky, with its light becoming golden and gentle as it is slowly sinking behind the mountains to the west.
I am at this beloved writing desk aboard my tiny house, which gives me a grandstand view of the sunset through the wide-open window.
This is one of my favorite times in the flow of days, this glimmering pause between the dying day and the coming night.
All the masters say that sunset is one of the best times to meditate and do practices because of this pause…and I have always found this to be true…and have come here to “catch the wave” towards higher consciousness that rises and surges towards the divine at this time.
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Meditation Is The Best Thing I Can Ever Do For Myself
One of the many beautiful things about meditation that I love the most is its immediacy and simplicity.
If I want to listen to music, I have to have a bunch of things to make it possible…this laptop to access my playlists and a sound system to play the songs I want and need to hear and power to run them both and a place to sit while listening.
With meditation and practices, I do not need anything other than myself and a bit of focused time to come into my own inner sanctuary. It is simple…all I need is to follow my own breath into that “portable paradise” that I carry within with me wherever I go.
Once I decide to practice, there is no waiting…I can enter that sanctuary easily as soon as I sit up straight, close my eyes and re focus my attention from the outer world onto simply watching my breath.
Then, I am “riding” each breath in and out as I come back into this very present moment. It is immediate.
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Simple Practices Are Best For Daily Life
It is simple, which is an essential aspect of practice. I have been initiated into some of the most powerful sadhanas available in the Vajrayana Dharma path from high Tibetan meditation masters over many years. Those practices are important and have their place, for they are done for the specific purposes and results they produce…
I am grateful for all the retreats I have had where we did these “advanced” practices in a group with our teacher. But these practices need a lot of time and a retreat situation to do them properly.
But, for me, with limited available time and living a daily life in the world, it is the simple practices that I rely on.
I have found it to be true as Kalu Rinpoche told me, “Simple practices are the best for daily practice…easy to learn, easy to do yet profound and progressive in their beneficial results…”
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If You Have A Busy and Demanding Life, Use Every Scrap Of Time To Meditate, Pray and Sing
Many people that come to my classes and courses tell me, “I would really love to develop my own meditation practice, but I don’t have any time for it with the demands of my daily life.”
Dear friends,
This is a preview of one of my “Inner Circle Member” stories for Paid Subscribers which goes deeper into this topic:
*The power of 5 minute meditation breaks
*More practice = more positive results
*Turning everything you do into meditation practice
*Taking meditation into the rest of life
*The best time to meditate
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