Active meditation is one of the meditations that have enlightened most people around the world. It’s a meditation so effortless, that a child can do it. Actually a child can do it better than you because he has no mind. You have done this meditation many, many, many times, especially in retreat, when we are aware of what is it we are doing.
So this meditation can be applied to three levels of existence. You can apply it in your mind, by the simple observation of your flow of thoughts. Simple observation. You can apply the meditation as well when you are observing your moods or your emotions. Or you can apply that observation to the breath. Each choice could be practiced individually or in conjunction with the others.
This meditation can be applied either sitting or in motion. We have applied it many times while sitting. Today we are going to apply it in motion. Observe your inner dialogue; either your moods, your mind or your breath, and your external dialogue; such as when you say or think “this person is looking at me, this person is very nice.”
In motion, we should have both observations.
Whatever happens it’s OK. Whatever you think, it’s OK. It’s the deepest acceptance in meditation because you really don’t need any concentration. What you need is the simple curiosity to know what is going on in your mind, in your emotions, in your breath.
Why would you want to do that? For no reason at all. If you have any reason then observe the reason. If you are alert in that way, you naturally will be guided towards the now, towards the sensibility.
Just last night I was saying, there’s so much going on in the invisible, it’s so subtle you cannot even get bored. There’s so much happening. Our agendas are also way too busy. Or we lose the boat, we lose the poetry of your existence. Don’t become like Saints, or Yogis, or Sages, or religious people, or new age people.
Become Poets
Become poets, for every single thing that you see, that you touch, is a huge, beautiful expression of love. Become lovers of the now. Poets of the now. So this meditation induces you to be sensible, (sensitive), induces you to be poets-- of your life.
So drop the politician and become a poet. Politicians have an agenda, mission, purpose, ambition. They seek fame, acknowledgment, recognition. All of you are politicians. Some are better than others.
Poets have no means, no purpose, just the simple observation of the beauty and the grace around you--and to allow that to vibrate in you. That will be the second step after the meditation.
You are so fully engaged in what you have observed that the observer becomes what you observe. Does that make sense? Are you happy you are a poet, Shawn?
Since it is a beautiful day, we are going to the park and we are going to walk in a circle so I can guide you. You are to be absolutely aware of your feet. Your eyes, should be 1/10th open, so you will be looking at the feet. You know in other meditations I say we are focusing on the tip top of the nose? OK, we’ll be focussing on the feet. And while that is happening you will observe your thoughts, your emotions, whatever comes. Relax the body.
We are meditating in motion, because I want to teach you also that meditation is not a still practice. It’s a constant movement in the now. It’s all lies if you say I meditate two hours per day and then you open your eyes and you are lost. You have not been meditating at all. You have probably put yourself in torture, trying to be still or watching something or creating an aggression.
Get used to walking in meditation, to talking in meditation, to looking in meditation, to loving in meditation. Even when you sleep you should be meditating. Meditation is not a practice, it’s a state of mind. It’s a state of perception, it’s a state of experiencing yourself, of experiencing reality.
Do you follow what I am saying? Let’s put on your shoes.... and we will go to the park.
Taken from Bhuvaneswari 04 Thursday Meditation Lectures
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