Carrying the Ocean Around. Carrying Source Around?

Yesterday I argued that we evolved as bags of seawater, so we could do stuff.  Do-ing alternating with Be-ing.

Can we do both at the same time?  Can we combine the contemplative meditative mind with our everyday doing? 

Start easy, perhaps, be-ing and do-ing in the shower, brushing your teeth, folding clothes.  A whole new world of pleasure may open up for you.  Truly and deeply feeling the water, the feel of clothes or clean teeth. 

Then mindfully eating.  Eat slowly, chew slowly, savor each bite.  Probably a good way to eat less. 

Hmmm, maybe while making love.  Works best if you are both tuned in to this exercise. 

Can you be in the mind-state of All-That-Is while writing?  What would it read like afterward?  What about various forms of art?  Many artists enter these states to increase creativity. 

What would it feel like to spend most of the day in that state?  Easier to practice in a retreat setting where everything is done for you except for your 1 hour “yogi-job.” 

The ultimate state of the Samurai warrior was to be one with the enemy.  Then there was no enemy.  There was no opponent.  There was no hate in killing.  There was no one there to kill or be killed, until only one warrior was physically left alive. 

The best martial artists and athletes enter the flow, where the self disappears. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi

Just like we are bags of seawater, do we carry Source around within us?  Is Source staring out from behind our eyes?   

Or, are we always already Source.  Therefore, Source carries us around. 

 

Both are true.  The truth is always found in paradox. 

Every particle that exists is a holograph of the entire Universe.  Your fingernail reflects the entire Universe.  Like Indra’s net, every particle, every being, reflects the whole enchilada. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra's_net

Words fail to adequately describe these states of brain-body function.  In deepest sleep there is no one aware.  In the deepest state of meditation everything drops away, even the witness.  There is no “you” to be aware. 

But, these can be a continuum of brain-states, from the deepest states to the lightest state of “keeping a toe dipped in at all times.” 

Each depends on how much beta, the frequency of awareness, is present, along with theta and perhaps other brain frequencies that reflect the meditative state. 

http://www.finerminds.com/mind-power/brain-waves/

There are many ways to practice.  Read and experience widely, see to what methods you are attracted.  See what might be scary!  Maybe within the fear is a great practice for you. 

Explore and experience methods, and then perhaps dedicate to practice deeply a method for a few weeks, months, or even years. 

Each method of practice can be a boat to get to a higher level.  Then often we need to leave that boat behind and find a different boat to take to the next level.  If we stay with the same boat we may get stuck.  Yet, be careful that you are really done with that boat before moving on. 

Remember, people tend to get attached to their particular method they have used for evolution.  They will often try to convince you to use their favorite methods.  Check in with your inner wisdom first. 

There is no end to your evolution.  There is always more unfolding to be done.  There is always more stuff to be dropped. 

Drop some more stuff that gets in your way, over and over again.  Become more and more transparent to the world. 

Shed the comfortable coat of the ego.  You can always put it back on when you need it. 

No thoughts of the past, no thoughts for the future. 

Be-ing and Do-ing. 

Beautiful, perfect, steps spiraling you ever higher to the next levels.