RAINBOW WORDS
Indigo
New
Found Love Through Meditation
What is this about new found love you may say. This is an
understanding that any feeling, emotion, decision, action,
accident, dream, fantasy, thought, pain, pleasure, or
sensation of any kind is generated by our own vibrations,
whether we are aware of the fact, or not. Gaining this
awareness is what meditation is about. If we are able to
become aware of all of the long and short term effects of
every one of our actions and words, then we are able to
adjust our behaviour to conform more to our own idea of a
good person. If we are able to be aware of the experiences
which create
our
sensations, then we are more able to steer ourselves safely
along our chosen route.
When meditating,
if we concentrate on the sensation in our nostrils when we
inhale, and pause and exhale and pause, with no conscious
physical control of the breathing process, we are training
ourself in single-pointed concentration.
When we have
achieved sufficient calmness to concentrate on our nostrils,
then we can begin to consciously move our awareness, using
our new found concentration. We can first concentrate on our
crown chakra, and attempt to register any sensations
emanating from the crown of the head. We maintain
concentration on this chakra, until we feel sensation. We
register and record the sensation (which is often to do with
heat, but always a little different), check our nostrils,
and move on to our third eye. We concentrate all of our
attention on the area between our eyes, until we can feel
the vibrations being emitted, usually accompanied by a
relaxation in some facial muscles. We then proceed
downwards through the other five chakras, throat, heart,
solar plexus, gut and genitalia.
Usually, our
concentration will wander long before we get down to the
base chakra. As soon as we realise that we have wandered, we
return to our nostrils, with no self-interrogation. We know
that we have been on a journey into our sub-conscious, and
have rescued ourself. The journey was used as a cleaning
process, and we are all the better for having made that
journey, knowing that we now have no need to make that
journey again. A little bit of muck will have been loosened,
in preparation for the next avalanche of realisation.
Often our desire
to get up and walk about or to end the meditation will
become uppermost in our mind. We try to drive that down by
promising that we will get up and walk about as soon as we
have registered one hundred exhalations on our nostrils,
knowing that if we lose concentration, we must start again.
Initially, less than one hundred is suitable for gently
stretching and training our abilities, and soon we hope to
proceed to a larger number. Our meditation periods will
grow, as we learn the importance of knowing when to stop,
and that this is not decided by a clock. When we achieve our
above promise, we stop.
The knowledge that
our chakras grow and atrophy in a way comparable to our
muscles helps our determination. Overnight changes are not
likely, and certainly not desirable - the pain and shock
causes delays. A very gradual and constant daily adjustment
is the safe way to train a muscle, and a chakra. The
discipline required is a significant part of the benefit.
Therefore the lack of progress created by missing a day's
practice becomes glaringly apparent, increasing the desire
sufficiently to turn it into action. Simple reminders are
all that are necessary.
A word about
chakra cleansing.
Usually we are
aware which chakra is being worked on, and we know that the
work involves cleansing. As with any cleansing process,
there has to be some way of disposing of the debris.
Different types of debris appear, and sometimes the disposal
process can be painful. Continued meditation is the way to
accelerate the process, and thus reduce the period of
suffering. Any swellings of the skin can be treated with hot
poultices, which encourage the withdrawal of dirty fluid,
and soften the stretched skin. A closely applied very hot
shower head works well too.
Preparing for or doing
karma yoga.
Karma yoga is the yoga of work, but before we can
grasp the meaning, we must carefully define work, as this is
one of the words, and vibrations, around which much
distortion occurs.
1. Physical or
mental effort directed towards doing or making something 2.
Paid employment at a job or a trade, occupation or profession.
It is possible to
direct physical or mental effort toward doing or making
something without payment, and it is also possible to receive
payment for employment, without employing physical or mental
effort at all. We are never sure which meaning applies, and
hence the confusion. In my definition, I use the idea of
direction as the significant vibration. We must not only be
aware of what we are doing, as in mindful observation, but we
must also simultaneously be aware of why we are doing it. This
provides direction.
We can see that The
Buddha did not concern himself with the pressures and stresses
brought about by twenty first century living. His incarnation
approximated to the middle of a six thousand year cycle, where
comparative peace reigned on the earth. We are now at the end
of this sub-cycle, four cycles of which are contained in the
great cycle of twenty six thousand years, which is also ending
now, as shown by the Mayan calendar, and prophecies from many
of our indigenous races, and seers of more recent history. The
time is now. The place is here.
The additional
problem which The Buddha did not have to face is the
overwhelming increase in the population of the planet, with
the resulting changes in the concept of privacy. There are
still a few places where one can truly be undisturbed, but few
and far between. These places develop and retain their own
peaceful aura if they remain undisturbed by loud vibrations or
activity.
One who practices right
speech
"...speaks the truth and is steadfast in
truthfulness, trustworthy, dependable, straightforward with
others. He reconciles the quarrelling and encourages the
united. He delights in harmony, seeks after harmony, and
creates harmony by his words. His speech is gentle, pleasing
to the ear, kindly, heart-warming, courteous, agreeable, and
enjoyable to many. He speaks at the proper time, according
to the facts, according to what is helpful, according to
Dharma and the Code of Conduct. His words are worth
remembering, timely, well-reasoned, well-chosen, and
constructive.
Right Action
Action must also be pure. As with speech, we must
understand what constitutes impure action, so that we may
abstain from it. Such acts include: killing a living
creature; stealing; sexual misconduct;for example rape, or
adultery; and intoxication, losing one's senses so that one
does not know what one says or does. Avoiding these four
impure actions leaves nothing but right action, wholesome
action.
One who practices
right action "Laying aside the rod and sword, he is careful
to harm none, full of kindness, seeking the good of all
living creatures. Free of stealth, he himself lives like a
pure human being".
