I am an impatient person. I like things to move quickly and happen right now. I’m trying to reconcile that inner need to go, go, go with the more peaceful and calm place of letting things unfold as they’re intended to be. I meditated today for the first time in a month. Wow. My brain just wouldn’t shut off! I would think about what I have to do today, about the client that I need to meet, about breakfast, or what I’m having for dinner. My partner and I always say, “Cows eat grass” as a statement of complete randomness. Well, that’s what my brain is doing-being completely RANDOM. I know it’s very important to take time each day to quiet the mind and just be. I’m starting off with 8 minutes. That’s a little embarrassing to me, but it’s just where I am right now. It’s harder than I thought it was going to be. But I guess I’ll never get any better unless I practice.
The reason I brought all this up about patience, is because I’m continuing to read Change your thoughts, Change your Life by Wayne Dyer. There are 81 verses in the TAO TE CHING. I normally, like to read read read until I’m done, but with this book it just doesn’t feel appropriate. Today’s verse was about living in the void. It talks about how a clay pot is nothing without the space inside, or how a room is nothing with out the space within the area. That nothingness is essential to life. It’s the yin-yang concept that intrigues me so much. The void or the space is where the TAO lives, or God, or the Universe, whatever you want to call it. Being silent and acknowledging the space is important-Meditation is what I’m thinking. That’s why I meditated today.
Felipe
Cool, you meditated! Congrats. “Acknowledging the space”–what a great phrase. I want to use that one too. Our mind chatter is something, isn’t it? I prefer to keep a pad and pencil near me when I meditate, because I will sometimes remember something I want to do, or have a great idea for a blog post or something
and it’s less distracting to just open my eyes, jot these things down, and then get back to it. These things often float into our minds then because we are giving the mind space instead of “doing”.
I was watching a friend’s dog today, and realized she doesn’t worry if she’s accomplishing her goals fast enough, or check off things on her to-do list, she just tunes in and “bes” a dog. Although we can work, and recreate, and blog and things, sometimes I’ll bet that your Seven and Ocho can be great teachers.
By: museditions on October 25, 2007
at 3:02 pm
Yep!! U guys I am with u on this one…I am an impatient person too but in the past few years I have learned to be patient, to stop and think…I have meditated for about 5 months twice a day but quit to give myself a break from it but I shoud go back…I have an hard time to shut my mind off and let it just GO!
C.V.
By: Colourful Vision on October 27, 2007
at 12:45 am