I am committed to awakening. I know in my heart of hearts that it is the way to go. The only way really. And as I commit again to this process, after falling on my ego butt too many times to count...I get validation through what I read or listen to that this is the only real path to choose. Peace, joy, love and bliss are already in us and tapping in to that energy flow is why we are here. Everything else is unimportant. It really is.
I am committed to being a yogi and a yogi knows that it is we, and we alone, that control our own shakti flow. We are the ones that open the valve (the proverbial heart) or close the valve to this flow. We either open and expand in response to what Life unfolds in front of us so Shakti can flow freely upward, or we close and contract in reactive resistance to what Life offers, damning the shakti flow in the lower chakras. We either look down, focusing all our powerful and beautiful awareness on the puny little me stuff which is so often dark and negative as well as insignificant and unimportant in the big scheme of things , or we look up and around this blob in the center of our vision to everything else: to spaciousness, light, freedom, and truth. We either strive, struggle, cling or push away; worry and fret over how we are going to make everything out there be as we have decided it should be, or we let go of our attachment to any of it. We either curse karma and challenge for making our little lives difficult, or we honor and thank karma and challenge for scraping us clean. We either experience Life in limiting ways through our mind stuff or we experience it fully through our Souls. We either resist Life or we accept and embrace it fully. We are either suffering through ego's nightmare, or rejoicing in God's dream of us. We are either imprisoned in these dungeons "me" built around us or we are free. The choice is ours.
You can not escape from prison until you realize you are in prison. Ram Dass
Our sadhana is all about learning and growing from all of it-the ten thousand joys, as well as the ten thousand sorrows! As I wrote in yesterday's entry, both the wrist wearing the shackles and the wrist wearing the golden bangles are imprisoned. Though at the level of body and mind we may long to be the bracelet wearer over the shackle wearer...we must keep in mind that it is the shackle wearer that is aware of their imprisonment and is therefore closer to freedom.
...suffering is the fire of purification....only when you are lost in your psychology do you damn your suffering. When you are a soul yearning to be free....you use it all... to get to God.
Ram Dass
All is well!
Ram Das/ Be Her Now ( September, 2023)Ram Dass on the Awakening of the Soul. Episode 234 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnjS8bqw81Y
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( September 26, 2023) Yoga-The Path to the Unconditional Energy Flow. https://tou.org/talks/
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