Om Ganesha
Morning Pujas and Prayers
August 19, 2009
Namaste my chelas all over the world.
Mindfulness is a feeling, a feeling that embraces all feelings.
Mindfulness is a gift given to us by our past actions into the bloom of the moment.
We only have moments to live our lives.
We have this moment and this is the only chance we have to appreciate this moment.
It is truly miraculous. Yet sadly it can be ignored or over looked.
Ignoring the moment may cloud our lives.
We may lose touch with our path in life.
There is only the moment far beyond shadows of thoughts
My chelas there is such a full range to understand mindfulness.
The lack of awareness is like losing touch with our selves.
It isolates us and cuts off our view of the world and the heavens and life and yes even death.
When we begin to become aware the moment becomes huge and inviting.
Be aware of the breath my chelas.
Study it.
See how the chest spreads open with the in breath and how the belly contracts on the out breath.
The out breath gets rid of staleness, so breathe out more by contracting the belly and get rid of more and more that is stuck to time and the past.
We tend to whittle ourselves down to nothing, we can not recognize this if we are not mindful of the moment.
Yesterdays wear us down and becomes toxic and even festers.
The out breath lets out large amounts of turmoil that we have let get to us.
Can you spend time with yourself?
Or do you always identify with your thoughts.
Your thoughts are not powerful, they have no roots, they can not hurt you.
Just by being mindful you can rid your whole life of unnecessary pain.
You are whole and perfect the way you are.
I love each and every one of you the way you are this moment.
See if you have turned away from your life and do not realize it until this moment.
This will bring you to the path of regret.
The path of regret is an unnecessary moment that already has happened.
TS Elliot talks of what we lose when we are not mindful.
Jung speaks of paying attention to your life no matter what is right or wrong knowing that all can be worked with.
I am willing to work with all of you and the landscape of your life right now no matter what.
Acknowledging all the dark and turbulent moments of our life helps us the most.
Stress begins to take a back seat to the now.
Do you feel pain, emotional pain that you tend to wall over.
Sooner or later you have to face the mirror of your life
The human condition and what you make of it.
I intend to teach you to dance with all of life.
This is the experience that is going on now.
You can not turn away from it.
It is in your way.
No regrets my chelas only learning in the moment.
You all have complete hope in your life, sometimes you have so much, so much deep resources that you can’t imagine is yours.
Healing is always in the moment.
Every one of us can use the moment to heal our souls.
You just have to care enough about yourself and those around you and then others that you just hear about.
You are far more than your thoughts.
It is just a thought, it can not hurt you.
Let it be, it has no roots.
Practice meditation to connect with your lives.
Have the experience of being alive.
Meditation is not complicated.
It is simple
It is not trying to make your life a blank.
It is just bringing awareness to the breath.
Start now
Feel your breath.
Actually feel your breath.
Does it feel good?
Can you understand that you can let the thoughts hurt you or help you or just go on with a slight acknowledgment.
Take this moment of the breath.
Yes it is a moment of the breath.
All of a sudden you are getting a sense of mindfulness.
Your breath is coming in and out.
This is meditating.
How sweet is the moment when you pay attention?
Feel the chest fill.
Then hold it there.
Sometimes you feel light headed or sometimes you just begin to feel and it does not even matter what you feel.
You just pay attention on purpose.
YOU JUST PAY ATTENTION ON PURPOSE what an exciting way to live.
No matter how old or young you are, YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION ON PURPOSE WOW, WHAT A WAY TO LIVE YOUR LIFE FULLY PAYING ATTENTION ON PURPOSE.
Listen my chelas, do not judge what you are doing.
You are experiencing your breath on your own terms.
Now breathe out deeply and see or pay attention how you feel.
Then let the breath do what it does.
Be sweet to you.
Notice how you are following the breath in and out.
Check now and see where your mind is.
Observe.
As you take your shower this day think of nothing but the water on your body and what it is doing.
Meditation is an invitation to wake up and enjoy the moment.
Being there and feeling the moment.
My God you actually can enjoy your shower or your bath or all of life of what is now.
Be in the Here and the Now.
You have this body and you have the breath and what a wonderful place to start.
I will help you my chelas.
Because I want to with all my heart.
Love Ma
Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai
Always at His Feet Of Our Neem Karoli Baba