(07-14-2021, 02:33 AM)Margan Wrote: The Daily Q'uote for July 14:

"To unite the spirit, the mind, and the body to promote that unity which appears as health, that health may be greatly aided by the frequent remembrance of the ground of being during meditation, even if it is only for a second. The various pieces of self are knitted up in that opening to the presence within that loved you before you ever hoped to love it. How precious each of you is.

It is as though within the meditation, regardless of how scattered it seems, there is a pure and distilled waterfall of light which irrigates and illumines cell by cell the body, mind and spirit. It is like being rinsed and polished to relax into that presence which is holy. "

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1994/1994_0116.aspx

and then it continues:

"And do not simply confine the self to one kind or form of meditation, for various experiences request various kinds of coherent illumination or meditation. Sometimes you may wish to contemplate a certain eye-catching thought or question, sometimes the meditation may be very active, the sacred dance, the sacred song. Sometime the true need is for the self to rail and complain bitterly to the infinite Creator, to say, “This does not seem to be a lesson in love at all. This hurts, this is painful, and I don’t like it.” Complaining is allowed, my children, complaining is encouraged. Too much is made of the wonderfulness of the infinite Creator and not enough said about the intimate love of this love itself that engages you in conversation and responds caringly and intricately to the way you speak your experience and tell your story to [it].

We encourage each, especially in times of dislocating change, to tell your story either mentally or out loud to the infinite One. The infinite One is never happier than when being addressed, and you, in addressing the infinite One, receive reflections you cannot imagine, reflections of the highest of truth and beauty. Each of you is waiting to flower and bloom from moment to moment. "

Very good to hear that because I am not the "sittingstill kind of meditator" - and nice to hear complaining is allowed
A friend of mine once remarked that if we always remember this, thinking of God all the time and focusing solely on that, that would be enough - or as Ramana said, meditation should be uninterrupted.
Not so easy though in every day life, but well we can always go back to where we left off.
And it does help! it makes such a difference, if I leave the house and mentally dedicate the day and my activities to the creator and ask for assistance, or if I leave and only think of my own personal stuff and fears and feelings..... the difference is so remarkable

although.... I can also sit on the couch and drink my coffee in service to the one infinite creator, can't I
The creator created both the couch, the coffee and the cleaning .... and the one doing all those things, haha

(07-25-2021, 02:57 AM)Margan Wrote: THis thing about cleaning in service to creator or drinking coffee reminded me of this little story:

"Two disciples of a great Master were walking in the garden of the Master’s house. They were allowed to walk every day, morning, evening. The walking was a kind of meditation, a walking meditation — just as Zen people do walking meditation.

You cannot sit for twenty-four hours. The legs need a little movement, the blood needs a little circulation. So in Zen and in Sufism both, you meditate for a few hours sitting and then you start meditating walking. But the meditation continues; walking or sitting, the inner current remains the same.

They both were smokers. They both wanted to ask for the permission of the Master, so they both decided, “Tomorrow. At the most, he will say no, but we are going to ask. And it doesn’t seem such a sacrilegious act to smoke in the garden; we will not be smoking in his house itself.“

The next day they met in the garden. One was furious — furious because the other was smoking — and he said, “What happened? I also asked, but he simply flatly refused and said No. And you are smoking? Are you not abiding by his orders?”

He said, “But he has said Yes to me."
“This looked very unjust. And the first said, “I will go and immediately inquire as to why he said no to me and yes to you.”
The other said, “Wait a minute. Please tell me what you had asked.” He said,

“What I had asked? I had asked a simple thing, "Can I smoke while meditating?"

He said, ‘No!’ and he looked very angry.“
The other started laughing; he said, “Now I know what is the matter. I asked, ‘Can I meditate while smoking?’ He said ‘yes.’”
It all depends. Just a little difference, and life is totally something else. Now, there is a great difference. Asking, “Can I smoke while meditating?” is just ugly. But asking, ” Can I meditate while smoking?” — it’s perfectly okay. Good! At least you will be meditating."

(08-01-2021, 04:01 AM)Margan Wrote: The Daily Q'uote for August 1:

"Since the third density is rife with duality and confusion, if not downright chaos, on the part of the entities of humankind which dwell upon its surface, it is only to one who is doing the inner work that there ever appears even the thought of finding a positive choice in a seemingly impossible situation. Yet, that is what each incarnated to do, that is, to find positive choices where none seem to exist, to love the unlovable, to console the inconsolable, to accept the unacceptable and to allow its grip upon the consciousness to loosen little by little, until finally one's heart does not find it necessary to hold the armor of the past and the future over the vulnerable and naked self."

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1991/1991_0224.aspx

oh I needed to hear that today! These days I often find it so hard to accept what is going on in the world....
I'm like " are all the other planets also so full of division and fights among their inhabitants?"
Difficult to watch the news - quite a challenge to find positiv choices in those...