Digest Number 600

[Guest guest]

RE: If you or anyone else has any specific ideas or tools (other than the

obvious ones of meditation, japa, chanting, etc.) for, when one is just

going about

one's everyday life, how to do this seeing of everything as Divine, I would

love to hear them. Jai Maa ~ Linda

 

Dear Linda...

 

This reminded me of something I read recently in Yoga Journal. Phillip

Moffet (a meditation teacher) wrote an article about the difference between

living in a world of expectations and a world of possibilities. He said

something to the effect that when we are experiencing states of suffering we

are living in expectation and cut ourselves off from many possible

solutions. If, on the other hand we stay in possibility we find ourselves

open to all sorts of possibility. I've been trying to remind myself of this

whenever I find myself feeling upset or disconnected from others. It's been

interesting to note how my attachment to certain expectations of future

events shifts when I ask myself if my issues are due to my expecting some

specific outcome. If I remind myself that I can live in the world of

possibility, and view my circumstances as opportunities for expansion and

self - growth; I can begin to let go of my attachment to outcome. I then

find that my life contains much more santosha (contentment).

 

The other thing I do is keep telling myself "God is Here" whenever I can

think of it. No matter what it is -God is Here... In a sunset - God is

Here, when I'm singing - God is Here, when the tsunami happened - God is

Here, everywhere I am, each breath I take, all the time. And if God is

always here as me, She is also here just as completely as every other part

of creation... and who could stay separate from that!

 

JAI MAA

 

OM Shanti,

Morningsong