Fear

We are just a string of experiences, empty of meaning and void of permanence. We fight to perpetuate "ourselves " by creating patterns and telling stories to convince us that those patterns define is.

" Self" is just the story of "self" we create, and we become attached to that story, afraid that if we don't embody this image we have of ourselves, we will dissolve into nothingness.

The Truth is there was no "Self" to begin with. The boundaries of the "self" are mind-made: the separation between me and you, us and others, mine and yours are illusionary and created by the Ego in order to breathe into existence a separate indentity. In reality the separation does not exist.

We use everything- our day to day interactions and reactions to reinforce the story. We create likes and dislikes, excuses and attachments so we can hold onto something we believe is the self.

The patterns are easy to attach to and identify with because they provide predictability and safety- we know how we will react to the environment and how the environment will react to us.

Our fear is nothing but a reaction to something out of pattern.

Fear is our pattern towards the unkown.

Self-inquiry

What does it take to keep the stillness in the mind and in the rhythm of the breath throughout every day tasks?

Can we see out inhale and exhale as a ritual regardless of whether we are sitting in meditation, eating lunch or vigorously moving? What does it take to sustain the awareness?

Can we yoke our intention, the focus of our attention to the rhythm of the breath and keep it there no matter what distraction we encounter?

Which is easier to control-  mind or breath?

Which is the first to get distracted- mind or breathing?

By noticing and being curious about this process we are practicing svadhyaya- self-inquiry.

we are...

We are writing our own stories. 

We are the canvas that we paint on with our breath, with our love.

Fill me up with Love

Fill me up with love

I want no more hatred and anger and fear

Heal me

I want no more judgement and prejudice

In my heart

Fill me up with love

And let me share

With every other being

Let me love like you do

Without the shadow of doubt

Without condition

Heal me

Fill me up with love

Become the storm

Don't brace for the storm, embrace the storm. 

Become the Storm, powerful, uncontrolled, pure

Get hurt without becoming bitter. 

Get angry without becoming vengeful

Get jealous without being offended. 

Love without expectation or condition

Find joy even if there is no one around 

Be weak in front of a crowd. 

Don't revel in how much you know or what you know

Become humble 

Recognize the existence of another

Respect another's space and decision

Loose your self- importance

Loose your mind in the now

It is the only way to find home

To become one

To be light 

Wings of light

If we want to bring change into the world we must be first willing to work on ourselves.

We cannot bring light until we have gone deep into the dark and become the light itself.

The work in ourselves requires us to go deep into our psyche, deep into our soul, where we haven't been in ages. It asks of us to meet our deepest, darkest desires and fears, it calls to us from these places where we don't want to look. 

The work we need to do is embrace those parts of ourselves we deem disgraced, inappropriate  and shameful. Until we wrap our arms and our heart around the child scared to death, around the broken hearted soul, around the angry spirit and  fiery human mind that is always seeking validation we are not whole. And until we are whole we can't manifest change that is enough. 

Once we bridge the disconnect between mind and heart, between humanness and spirit, between reality and illusion in ourselves we can't do it for anyone else. 

Find the darkness, the resistance  and dive deep into it.  It is going to be uncomfortable, the mind is going to scream in terror and play tricks on you, invoking unearthly fears and unbearable pain. Stay with it and breathe, breathe so deep you get lost in your breath, in your darkness, in your resistance. 

Stay with it until you become one with that resistance, with that pain, with the ugliness in you. 

From the ashes of your illusions the light of your soul will shine. 

Like the raven that has gone into the deepest void, where the light  is born and is bringing it out on its wings. 

Attachments of the mind

Within the walls of the mind nothing exists but attachment and suffering. 

To Rise above the limitations, drop the chains and  breaks the wall of the universe we have created for ourselves, we need to reach for the Love in our hearts. 

The Love in the heart is limitless, the Light of the eternal soul is infinite, it cannot be contained. 

Reside in the heart, ride the wind with the soul and exist in this boundless joy and Love.