You do not have to store these things inside...you have to experience them. Learn to be okay with what you experience.
...Life is a sequence of experiences you get to have.
Michael A. Singer
Instead of just experiencing Life...what do we do?
We select what we want to experience. We then stuff and store a few selective experiences and focus all our energy on them. Mind takes over with these questions, "Okay, what can I do so that never happens again and I never have to feel it again?" Our energy goes to that thought, that resistance. We close up and we do not fully experience the moment we are in.
Even when we stuff and store positive things we are given by Life, we are forming samskaras and it is counter productive to our experience of Life. This "clinging" tendency makes us focus on this, "What can I do so that I have this again, so that nothing or no one takes it away?"
Our mind goes there...we follow the mind and we live in that thought process rather than in the suchness of the moment.
It is through all this stored stuff that we perceive and interpret the world. What we are looking to gain from the world is actually in us...beneath or behind all this stored stuff. ...peace, happiness, joy, and love. But all our stuffed stuff is in the way of us feeling it. This leads to reactivity and resistance. So then what do we have to do?
First
Don't store the negative things[or the positive things] that happen to you.
Second
Be open to purification- a cleansing of all that is stored, a release of samskaras. That is where I am at-- focusing on the release of samskaras. I want to cleanse my inner world so I am more open to the outer world.
In the meditation video I posted last entry the samskaras are represented as trunks holding past memory and emotional energy related to experiences we stuffed and stored through repression and suppression. In this meditation all the trunks are lining and cluttering this vast tunnel that exists deep down in our psyches. That tunnel might be our sushumna...or it can be the Life journey itself...Behind all these trunks is the shakti energy that is blocked ...light, peace, happiness, joy, and love....that is meant to be flowing through this tunnel, through us, enhancing our lives. We, however, lined its channel with stored junk (in trunks) with our desiring and averting. We blocked the channel so we do not feel this inner flow, and we develop a tendency to look out into the external world for these things already in us. We then end up stuffing and storing more...creating more blockages with more trunks.
How do we fix this?
We want the trunks empty...we want the trunks gone. In the meditation...we go in to cleanse. We are only focusing on the trunks that are already partially opened...meaning that the samskaras are naturally being opened by life circumstance. Yet, their ascent and release is still being hindered by our resistance. So, instead of resisting...we do the opposite...we seek and openly confront ( in a friendly and non-aggressive way) any samskara on its way out. We experience it so it can be released.
Of course, this is all just intention and visualization but hopefully this little exercise will help us to cultivate an intention of willingness and acceptance; it will help us to get past those resistant emotions by going through them; and it will counter our tendencies to run, stuff, escape, hide etc with our intentionally seeking and confronting.
Hmm! I don't know. It is beneficial to me so I share.
All is well
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( February 24, 2025) The Sacred Time Between Birth and Death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIo8_HmnQ6M&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=2
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