RAINBOW WORDS
Indigo
New
Found Love Through Meditation
What is this about new found love you may say. This is an
understanding that any feeling, emotion, decision, action,
accident, dream, fantasy, thought, pain, pleasure, or
sensation of any kind is generated by our own vibrations,
whether we are aware of the fact, or not. Gaining this
awareness is what meditation is about. If we are able to
become aware of all of the long and short term effects of
every one of our actions and words, then we are able to
adjust our behaviour to conform more to our own idea of a
good person. If we are able to be aware of the experiences
which create our
sensations, then we are more able to steer ourselves
safely along our chosen route.
When meditating, if we
concentrate on the sensation in our nostrils when we
inhale, and pause and exhale and pause, with no conscious
physical control of the breathing process, we are training
ourself in single-pointed concentration.
When we have achieved
sufficient calmness to concentrate on our nostrils, then
we can begin to consciously move our awareness, using our
new found concentration. We can first concentrate on our
crown chakra, and attempt to register any sensations
emanating from the crown of the head. We maintain
concentration on this chakra, until we feel sensation. We
register and record the sensation (which is often to do
with heat, but always a little different), check our
nostrils, and move on to our third eye. We concentrate all
of our attention on the area between our eyes, until we
can feel the vibrations being emitted, usually accompanied
by a relaxation in some facial muscles. We then
proceed downwards through the other five chakras, throat,
heart, solar plexus, gut and genitalia.
Usually, our
concentration will wander long before we get down to the
base chakra. As soon as we realise that we have wandered,
we return to our nostrils, with no self-interrogation. We
know that we have been on a journey into our
sub-conscious, and have rescued ourself. The journey was
used as a cleaning process, and we are all the better for
having made that journey, knowing that we now have no need
to make that journey again. A little bit of muck will have
been loosened, in preparation for the next avalanche of
realisation.
Often our desire to
get up and walk about or to end the meditation will become
uppermost in our mind. We try to drive that down by
promising that we will get up and walk about as soon as we
have registered one hundred exhalations on our nostrils,
knowing that if we lose concentration, we must start
again. Initially, less than one hundred is suitable for
gently stretching and training our abilities, and soon we
hope to proceed to a larger number. Our meditation periods
will grow, as we learn the importance of knowing when to
stop, and that this is not decided by a clock. When we
achieve our above promise, we stop.
The knowledge that our
chakras grow and atrophy in a way comparable to our
muscles helps our determination. Overnight changes are not
likely, and certainly not desirable - the pain and shock
causes delays. A very gradual and constant daily
adjustment is the safe way to train a muscle, and a
chakra. The discipline required is a significant part of
the benefit. Therefore the lack of progress created by
missing a day's practice becomes glaringly apparent,
increasing the desire sufficiently to turn it into action.
Simple reminders are all that are necessary.
A word about chakra
cleansing.
Usually we are aware
which chakra is being worked on, and we know that the work
involves cleansing. As with any cleansing process, there
has to be some way of disposing of the debris. Different
types of debris appear, and sometimes the disposal process
can be painful. Continued meditation is the way to
accelerate the process, and thus reduce the period of
suffering. Any swellings of the skin can be treated with
hot poultices, which encourage the withdrawal of dirty
fluid, and soften the stretched skin. A closely applied
very hot shower head works well too.
Preparing for or doing karma yoga.
Karma
yoga is the yoga of work, but before we can grasp the
meaning, we must carefully define work, as this is one of
the words, and vibrations, around which much distortion
occurs.
1. Physical or mental
effort directed towards doing or making something 2. Paid
employment at a job or a trade, occupation or profession.
It is possible to direct
physical or mental effort toward doing or making something
without payment, and it is also possible to receive payment
for employment, without employing physical or mental effort
at all. We are never sure which meaning applies, and hence
the confusion. In my definition, I use the idea of direction
as the significant vibration. We must not only be aware of
what we are doing, as in mindful observation, but we must
also simultaneously be aware of why we are doing it. This
provides direction.
We can see that The
Buddha did not concern himself with the pressures and
stresses brought about by twenty first century living. His
incarnation approximated to the middle of a six thousand
year cycle, where comparative peace reigned on the earth. We
are now at the end of this sub-cycle, four cycles of which
are contained in the great cycle of twenty six thousand
years, which is also ending now, as shown by the Mayan
calendar, and prophecies from many of our indigenous races,
and seers of more recent history. The time is now. The place
is here.
The additional problem
which The Buddha did not have to face is the overwhelming
increase in the population of the planet, with the resulting
changes in the concept of privacy. There are still a few
places where one can truly be undisturbed, but few and far
between. These places develop and retain their own peaceful
aura if they remain undisturbed by loud vibrations or
activity.
One who practices right speech
"...speaks the truth and is steadfast in truthfulness,
trustworthy, dependable, straightforward with others. He
reconciles the quarrelling and encourages the united. He
delights in harmony, seeks after harmony, and creates
harmony by his words. His speech is gentle, pleasing to
the ear, kindly, heart-warming, courteous, agreeable, and
enjoyable to many. He speaks at the proper time, according
to the facts, according to what is helpful, according to
Dharma and the Code of Conduct. His words are worth
remembering, timely, well-reasoned, well-chosen, and
constructive.
Right Action
Action must also be pure. As with speech, we must
understand what constitutes impure action, so that we may
abstain from it. Such acts include: killing a living
creature; stealing; sexual misconduct;for example rape, or
adultery; and intoxication, losing one's senses so that
one does not know what one says or does. Avoiding these
four impure actions leaves nothing but right action,
wholesome action.
One who practices
right action "Laying aside the rod and sword, he is
careful to harm none, full of kindness, seeking the good
of all living creatures. Free of stealth, he himself lives
like a pure human being".
