Meditation

When seeking insight and happiness little do you know it is held within. Everything is held within.  No need to look outside yourself. So when I wish to see I turn and look within. 


It all starts by finding your center. Your center is where everything within is quiet.  Not being pulled by the emotions this way or that. Like listening to beautiful music or focusing on a beautiful poem or simply watching children at play.  Everything is right in your universe, a feeling of rest and being at peace inside, all is quiet.  Here is where you will find your center.  It may appear as simple focus but in reality there is nothing simple about it in the sense that when something grabs all your attention whatever it may be, it holds all your attention.  Your focus at these times is when you are giving your all to it.  Discursive thoughts are quiet; you are focusing totally upon the object of your perception. Pure unadulterated focus resting quietly upon any particular. Your center can be found when you turn this focus upon yourself and look within. You become the seer instead of looking outside at what is seeing. Being the seer, the center of your one pointed focus, you find your center as the seer.


Now turn your focus within, upon your breath and relax, let any tension in your body drop away. Check to see if your breathing is in a state of flow.  It should be effortless like water flowing smooth, fluid. No tension or control should be present.  As David Clements says, look for whatever brings you joy. Breaths should start deep two inches below the navel. When focusing upon the breath it can become shallow and hardly detectable or it can be bold breathing deep within. All in all the main point here is it should be in effortless flow accompanied by joy. You will know when you reach this because your body will simply take over everything and will be at rest with no tension throughout your body breathing flowing like water in effortless beauty and joy.


Now being totally centered I turn to beauty, a recollection of a time when I saw myself not only as beautiful within and without as well along with images of light like those seen sunlight reflecting upon water. Stay in this beauty for a while until you become totally absorbed in it.  Becoming beauty itself along with images of light reflecting light.  Truth be told you are that beautiful light within, merge with it and become what you are ineffable light and beauty abound.

 

I then find myself in an effortless one pointed focus.  Much like the breath, it is fluid. Thoughts move freely from one to the next effortlessly with no fear, no tension. Not focusing upon any particular thought simply letting each pass focusing totally upon the present moment. Just being filled by bliss and the simple joy of the moment.


Then I let everything go, giving up all sense of self.  Seeing and being the beautiful seeing light reflecting light, simply being that ineffable light and beauty abound. At this point there are no thoughts, just simply experiencing unity with the universe.


And yet at some point a thought will come in.  If I let it just drop away I can stay.  If I allow myself to focus upon it for even an instant, down I come to discursive thoughts along with all the joys and sorrows of life.


In all truth, the only thing one can do is let go, give yourself up and allow the reality before you to be present and then unite with it or become one. You will notice I use these words often and at each level.


This is one of my favorite quotes found in Plato Phaedo 79d.

“But when it speculates anything, itself subsisting by itself then it departs to that which is pure,  eternal, and immortal, and which possesses a sameness of subsistence: and, as being allied to such a  nature, it perpetually becomes united with it, when it subsists alone by itself, and as often as it is  lawful for it to obtain such a conjunction: and then, too, it rests from its wanderings, and  perpetually subsists similarly according to the same, about such natures, as passing into  contact with them; and this Passion of the soul is denominated prudence (φρονεσις).”


A good friend of mine says what is written above, “it’s not so simple, it's a lot”. Through your questions I can refine it and make it simpler to read. I do understand you must have questions. I would be more than happy to answer them.  You can contact me directly at. spiritwoman4.blogspot.com@gmail.com



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