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".