Today’s favourite poses: Cat, Child’s Pose, Plank Pose
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: Not enough/very many!
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra)
"In the vastness of the ocean there is no individual “I” clamouring for attention. There are waves and eddies and tides, but it is all, in the end, ocean. In the end, it is all spirit."
The reading further goes on to use the ocean as a metaphor for the universe/our individual/collective souls/consciousness. This resonates with me because it talks about 'One Consciousness’ which is something my favourite Sage and I have talked about, and it also directly relates to what my ‘Guru’, Erik, taught me, as explained in a previous post from another blog of mine:
My favorite silence is the time I spend in meditation. It’s like an entire ocean suddenly becoming extraordinarily calm and still. No storms, no tsunami’s, no hurricanes, no foreign vessels.
Erik explained to me once, the importance of ‘living from the depth’ and not on the surface where all the storms(drama)occurs. To frame it very simply, life has to be spent looking down, or deeper into the ocean, not up at the surface. The surface changes. Stuff blows in with the wind. It gets rough. But beneath the surface, when you go deeper, nothing changes, nothing is affected by what’s happening up there.
When life seems to be really bad/negative/painful, just 'be ok' with the pain. Remember that it is just weather, and it will change. And we can CHOOSE to dive into the tsunami, or just WATCH as the wave passes by. As soon as we try to grasp at things like thoughts, or wishes, or regrets, it becomes futile, as we are merely trying to stop a wave from coming into shore.
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