Christine Masi
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Kate
Heart felt words to describe your meditation journey.
Life is very much like jello, wobbly, impermanent yet full of sweet life – juice!Your insight on how meditation has been of benefit to you, is inspiring.
Eleanore,
I related to your resistance to sit for meditation during times of unease and that after meditation you sense a lightness. I especially liked your phrase – an extra little bit of grace for my own feelings –I liked the imagery of the Brussels sprout, its round and solid yet it’s made of of many layers, much like our ego. As we peel away the layers – letting go – we can begin to experience our egoless self.
When I become too entangled with the stuff of my life, I have been discovering that by going out into nature, especially going for walks on the beach and listening and watching the waves. By observing nature with my senses, I am able to let go of my tangled self even if only for the time it takes for a wave to ebb and flow.
Nature feels like it is always in a state of letting go and has become for me my teacherDear Helene
Thank you for sharing your Thich Nhat Hanh story. I always resonate with simple practices we can weave into our day to day lives!
Also, as Kate said thank you the quote by Kaira Jewel Lingo.I had a dog for 16 years named Luna. At age 8 she developed an autoimmune disease that brought her close to death a couple of times. At that time I experienced great sadness and grief. She lived and was a loving and sweet companion. In her last year of life, she became deaf, blind, incontinent and had dementia. I was ready to let her go as I had processed that pain of loss of her years prior. My ex husband was not ready to let her pass. I as her primary caregiver, abided and endured her suffering.
My lesson is that I listen to my heart more and make choices that arise from within and to act from my inner wisdom.
As Rachel stated, to honor that nugget of truth…(the heart’s wisdom)I struggled to choose a painful experience and struggled to honestly say what wisdom I learned or would make a different choice.
I think each moment of one’s life is made up of choices, experiences and tidal waves of joys and sorrows.Rachel,
So moving your story
I especially was moved by your sentence, have faith in that nugget of truth!Ginny, I related to your story. I too, though more recently have ended a nearly 40 year relationship that was dis functional and full of verbal abuse. My ex also precipitated the end of the marriage and I after reading your easy perhaps he was the braver one or maybe I was the braver one to let him make the choice so I wasn’t again set up for blame
The word lineage means a sacred connection/bond to a universal dynamic energy, that is indefinable.
As for ancestral lineage, I was raised with a diluted connection to my Spanish and Italian roots. Maybe it was due to the time, the melting pot of the 60s. I plan to incorporate my ancestors in my premeditation ritual and am curious to see how this unfolds.
The reading, helped to formulate for me the importance of devotion and ritual in meditation practice. The act of making offerings and the asking for blessings by taking a sacred pause to sense our inner wisdom. And after meditation, to again take a inner breath to integrate the benefits for self and othersKimberly, I was in your small group when you shared that your lineage was broken and how you felt you couldn’t move through this pain. And that you didn’t want to share beyond the group. Then you did!!! I hope your healing continues!
To Jenn and Dominic’s reply to Jenn
It helped me to visualize lineage as a rain drop into a pond. Each including the drop moves and flows as one, that’s the magic, maybe
Rena, such a tender sharing of your experience with the dying of your father. Each moment was all that was important and meaningful. Giving yourself permission to be present allowed for the opening for cessation of suffering
Thank you for sharing your storyAfter reading the assignment, I felt frustrated – suffering. Instead of sitting with this, I searched for a simpler version of the 4 noble truths which led to more suffering and confusion. I talked to my sister to try to figure it out – still suffering.
Finally I found what I thought would be the article to explain it clearly. I went to print the article out and the printer jammed – more suffering. I was so frustrated at this point! I started to laugh, I had asked Buddha for a simpler example of the 4 Noble Truths and I am in awe how simple and straightforward it became despite the suffering.