Changes

Try it, my children.  See if you can just feel yourself breathing, continuously, if only for several minutes at first.  It begs, but immediately answers the question: what is the [[relationship]], the connection, between you and all the rest you are, between what you can consciously control and what is simply given each [[moment]] of life?  See if you can feel with [[gratitude]] and [[respect]] this living [[encompassing]] of yours that’s so very rarely [[conscious]] throughout your days and nights.  This is why every [[religion]] you have evolved over the millennia has [[discovered]] these exercises of heart and breath meditation.  It’s how men and women have discovered a way of accessing their larger selves by focusing their minds on some actual part of them that is alive beyond their own doing, and in so doing, are able to relax the anxious [[busyness]] of their [[minds]].  The [[purpose]] of this, apart from honoring your living body, is to let your mind become still of itself and allow something present and new to occur.

Try it, my children.  See if you can just feel yourself breathing, continuously, if only for several minutes at first.  It begs, but immediately answers the question: what is the [[relationship]], the connection, between you and all the rest you are, between what you can consciously control and what is simply given each [[moment]] of life?  See if you can feel with [[gratitude]] and [[respect]] this living [[encompassing]] of yours that’s so very rarely [[conscious]] throughout your days and nights.  This is why every [[religion]] you have evolved over the millennia has [[discovered]] these exercises of heart and breath meditation.  It’s how men and women have discovered a way of accessing their larger selves by focusing their minds on some actual part of them that is alive beyond their own doing, and in so doing, are able to relax the anxious [[busyness]] of their [[minds]].  The [[purpose]] of this, apart from honoring your living body, is to let your mind become still of itself and allow something present and new to occur.

   

   

Michael mentioned how strange this seeming non-activity must be to someone who is so outwardly oriented and inwardly self-centered and selfish with themselves they are consumed with busily building up and maintaining a sense of [[momentum]] in their lives.  Now to suggest they deliberately bring that momentum to a halt in a [[profound]] [[stillness]]?  <u>How silly it must seem to them if you were to turn around your familiar saying to suggest: don’t just do something, sit there!</u>  You can see how difficult this is, how immediately it brings about a near-[[existential]] [[fear]] of losing themselves, losing control by [[relaxing]] their grip that they so desperately feel they need.

Michael mentioned how strange this seeming non-activity must be to someone who is so outwardly oriented and inwardly self-centered and selfish with themselves they are consumed with busily building up and maintaining a sense of [[momentum]] in their lives.  Now to suggest they deliberately bring that [[momentum]] to a halt in a [[profound]] [[stillness]]?  <u>How silly it must seem to them if you were to turn around your familiar saying to suggest: don’t just do something, sit there!</u>  You can see how difficult this is, how immediately it brings about a near-[[existential]] [[fear]] of losing themselves, losing control by [[relaxing]] their grip that they so desperately feel they need.

 

===='''''[[Ambition]]'''''====

===='''''[[Ambition]]'''''====

* (Let go craving ambition)

* (Let go craving ambition)