Meditation

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  Simply aware of the arising-fallingOf all and everythingRight before your eyes Like a dreamMirageSit-com Letting it come and goLetting goLetting be Breathing outinto itAnd inout of it Grokking it allAs part of yourself Like film-meditation(who the projector?) Letting go totallyLetting bePurely presencing Being itInseparablefrom one and all                               Lama Surya Das, from  “Co-Meditations”

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Published in Tricycle Magazine Winter 2007 Lama Surya Das explores the common roots of various Buddhist meditative practices. Clinging to one’s school and condemning others Is the certain way to waste one’s learning. Since all dharma teachings are good, Those who cling to sectarianism Degrade Buddhism and sever Themselves from liberation." —Milarepa, The One Hundred Thousand Songs During my initial private meeting with the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche, my first root guru, I asked him about the main points of meditation. He asked what kind of meditation I was doing, and I told him mindfulness...

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  Breathe, relax, center and smile. Let things come and go, and just let be.  Practice Presencing. It’s not about trying not to think but about letting things come and go. Learning to relax, just be, center, and naturally meditate is a well known spiritual secret that people ought to be able to learn and integrate into life. Like mental flossing, it keeps one open and free, calm and clear. I too was a teeenage thinkaholic, even till recently, but I’m much more spacious now. American Buddhas, awaken! Loosen your attachments.” Lama Surya Das, New Dharma Talks 2012

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“Breathe, relax, center and smile. Let things come and go, and just let be. Practice Presencing. It’s not about trying not to think but about letting things come and go. Learning to relax, just be, center, and naturally meditate is a well known spiritual secret that people ought to be able to learn and integrate into life. Like mental flossing, it keeps one open and free, calm and clear. I too was a teenage thinkaholic, even till recently, but I’m much more spacious now. American Buddhas, awaken! Loosen your attachments.” Lama Surya Das, New Dharma Talks 2012

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So -- SOS! Stop meditating. LOL On a more serious note: Ultimately you must be a light unto yourself, as Buddha said, and make and experience your own choices. Solitary spiritually-focused time is much rarer these days than professional work or creative arts time, and should not be easily let slip by or taken for granted. It is transformation and enlightenment that counts, not the actions themselves. Rocks and frogs too sit all day, but who knows what they are accomplishing, spiritually speaking. Time is of the essence. Time is life -- what else is there? Quality time is the thing, not just...

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