Sitting and starting with a practice of Metta.
May you be safe.
May you be healthy.
May you be happy.
May you live with ease.
All of a sudden it pops in…
May you bask in the ever present now.
I was in the Now…
But, I was not thinking about the joy of being in the now,
until that phrase arose.
May you be safe.
May you be healthy.
May you be happy.
May you bask in the ever present now.
May you live with ease.
I was enjoying the addition of this line.
Settling back out of the thinking mind…
Then 2 nights later I was visualizing the bright empty
fullness of Source.
This felt like a fire burning within…
The feeling changed and arose as a subtle fire lighting up
every molecule and cell of this
Body-Mind….
The following phrase arose…
May you fully embrace the burning fire of Source.
This felt good…
The thinking mind then arose…
Maybe this should be the next line in Metta practice…
Then, it felt like this Metta was getting too
complicated…
May you be safe.
May you be healthy.
May you be happy.
May you bask in the ever present now.
May you fully embrace the burning fire of Source.
May you live with ease.
Maybe “embracing the burning fire of Source,” didn’t quite
feel like something associated with “ease.”
Yet, the feeling tone was a “burning” on many levels.
Particularly, this felt like the continued burning away of
the ego.
That darn ego pops back up, again and again.
I am much more friendly with those tendencies of the ego
these days.
Like a comfortable overcoat.
It can be shed.
and
It can be put back on to walk in the world, and get things
done.
I like what Ram Daas said in Paths to God: Living the
Bhagavad Gita:
“…as we begin to see ourselves…not as the actors, but as the
vehicles through which the laws of nature are unfolding, we are approaching
something that is much more interesting, and much more profound than whatever
it was that we might have thought the game was about.”
Hmmmm….
… as the vehicles through which the laws of nature are
unfolding…
How lovely!
Ram Dass then quotes Krishna’s speaking to Arjuna:
“I have no work to do in the world…I have nothing to obtain,
because I have it all. And yet I
work.”
This feels like the burning edge of my current unfolding…
Namaste
