Seeing With A Pure Mind

By seeing I have chosen
By choosing I have seen
Are you aware of your choice?
Or are you a choice of your world?
Regain your autonomy
The world is a mirror of your mind
Reflecting everything
As it was, as it is, as it will be
Be the creative master
Forgo your filtered lens
Allow the light to shine
Through you, from you, and in you

Change and Changing

Change could be stimulating and exciting.  The fact that we can leave one state and move on to another is simply refreshing.  It provides the opportunity for us to reset and erase our records.  It fires up neurons and rewires our neural circuit, hence leading us to think and feel differently.  In fact, adopting new perspectives and learning continuously are what rejuvenate us.

But changing could also be uncomfortable and painful.  It involves letting go of something or someone that we are familiar with and entering an unchartered territory.  The old may not serve us but at the very least, it appears to have certainty.  So what really makes changing so challenging is the loss of control.

Sometimes, we would rather hold onto control than to have faith and allow life to take us on an adventure. Whether it is for the better or worse is something that is subjective and time-bound.  In truth, there is really no better or worse but just experiences, though they may be what you need rather than what you wish.  Crossing that bridge of change takes courage, but it is empowering and promises a payoff if one can remove judgement.  

Meditation - Why?

Meditation is a word that is synonymous with spiritual practice and cultivation.  But the word has so much more depth to it than just being associated with relaxation and stress reduction.  Meditation in Sanskrit means to be free of measurement and comparison.  You are simply at one with what is and not what should be.  It is when we can embrace every experience of ours and look beyond it without judgement that we can be truly free from suffering.  To be able to arrive at such a state requires commitment and practice, and it is through meditation that we can achieve this goal.

Most practitioners know that we calm our monkey minds by means of focusing on an object of meditation.  Indeed even with that particular object, may it be our breath, an image or a mantra, it is still a thought.  But at least we are attempting to replace our thousands of thoughts with one single thought.  Stillness is attained and it is from which that we can create the space to gain clarity to this phenomenal world.  Meditation is thus meant to lead us step to step towards sustainable contentment by going beyond the mind and returning to our primordial nature of peace and bliss.

So in adopting a meditation practice, be mindful of pitfalls that might lead you to contemplation and conceptual steps which might encourage your mind to remain unruly and undisciplined.  The aim is to free your mind and not to have more thoughts crowding in on you.