NOTE:
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that translates to wheel. They are the 7 major energy centers that receive and send energy from focal points on our physical body. The rotating wheels are like vortices's of subtle matter. Each with it's own characteristics of balance and unbalanced. Each Chakra has a color energy related to the light spectrum. Chakra teachings were believed to has been derived from the Upanishads in India around the 1st millennium BCE. Their Philosophy poseted that there was a Universal Spirit and an Individual Soul. Upanishads means setting to rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit.
Constant: Steadfast in purpose, loyalty, or affection; faithful - consistent with truth or actuality.
Variable: Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable - varying in color or appearance when seen from different angles.
Joy to the World/better know as: Jeremiah was a Bullfrog
..."Love to have my fun
I'm a high life flyer and a rainbow rider
A straight shootin' son-of-a-gun
I said a straight shootin' son-of-a-gun"
No all of the above did not come from my meditation. What did come was my color of the day, orange, constants (are my children) and variables(are everything else) then the song - Jeremiah was a Bullfrog! I just wanted to explain a few things to you to help you understand my journey and where I get my references from. They peek out of my subconscious and I slip them into a memory file to be retrieved when I sit here to write. Today I decided to fill inform you literally of my journey as well as to paint my visual picture with my own words.
Since this mornings meditation my mind has wandered a considerable amount. You know that place I go "where demons dwell". I still peek in that rabbit hole but fortunately for me I remembered that someone installed a light! (thank you anonymous!) ha. When I wander I usually go to the past and I'm angry at the future. Somedays, I do not like the Universes plans for me. Like really, I seriously entertain for moments at a time that I have more power than the Universe? arggh...powerless come to mind here, followed closely by insanity (as in my neurosis of chasing my tail!)So in this moment I am starting my day over by wiping the slate of guilt, remorse and angst off of the slate!
Rising early to meditate has become a wonderful habit. I began this practice several years ago and it's taken on new meaning this year. How? I am trying harder to pay attention. For years there's been a little voice in the back of my mind trying to scream its way around the piles of garbage -"PAY ATTENTION." For this moment I will listen.
On my path today I called for Lagan. He insinuated that I was sometimes lazy. This rang of truth. That's a fine benefit of meditation - defectiveness ringing true! Which leads me to the next kernel of wisdom he imparted upon me - REALITY. What's that? I don't like that! Can I pick flowers there ...all day? Do they have stores there where I can day dream...all day? Will they let me write...all day? Much to my chagrin this is not what happens in the reality of my world! Reality the state of things as they actually exist which includes being and nothingness. Part of my reality is the constant of being. Within that today their are constant variables, my sons, my family, my spiritual practices and my experiences. Reality is not necessary what is tangible or touchable in a tactile sense rather is in part based on perspective. Part of my experiences include a phenomenal reality
in that they are first person and occur only in my consciousness. They can not be necessarily verified in an external objective manner.
I'm sure you are wondering what I circling around - hm? Part of my reality is that I was born with a profound gift of extra sensory perception. ESP? That's weird! Yeah, tell me about it. It took me years to consciously acknowledge it and it's taking years for me to own up to it. Lagan reminded me today that my strongest gift is called mental telepathy. It means that I am able to receive the thoughts of others. There are other forms such as senders but I don't know much about that. My specific sense is called, latent telepathy and described as being the transfer of information, through Psi, with an observable time-lag between transmission and recipient. Psi is the transfer of energy and has to do mainly with Quantum Psychics. Too much information right? Well, I tell you that to say that Lagan reminded me today that I pick up on the thoughts of others, a persons first instinct and I forget to let that go. The problem with this is that I am lazy and forget to allow for what lies in anothers heart. Hearts are different - sometimes they are frozen, sometimes a person is in there own process of transformation. Sometimes a person actions are right even though there first thought is one of hatred and derision! (guilty!) There are other forms of ESP and I have a little of them but today I am supposed to practice patience by listening and hearing the thoughts and then by watching the behavior. This will give me more compassion. Compassion! Compassion is a Golden Rule is most Spiritual disciplines. It is the ability to feel the pain of others. The rule is "do unto others as you would have them do unto you!" There's an old adage about where the heart goes the mind will follow! So today, I will practice waiting for the thaw! Not all people have frozen hearts or hearts covered in lead, some people are clear and I get them - with these people I am not afraid!
As I waited in my meditation I saw the flower barely sprout up through the soil It hasn't unfolded yet! Remember I'm supposed to wait for life to unfold like a flower! Oh, patience! Then as I sat in easy pose with my hands in Buddhi Mudra (the tip of my little finger on the tip of my thumb. This strengthens communication!) I saw people in the Valley! Lagan said, "look at all the people, you have to work to get them here!" I became still and saw the drops of water as they fell into the later and circle slowly out to its rim. Today, I am practicing a work ethic, being in my own reality, compassion and patience. Just for the moment I am practicing faith in letting my life unfold like a flower. The constants and variables will only flux and flow but reality will always be!
