Wherever you go you are surrounded by vibrations. Everything is giving off some sort of vibration that we feel on both subtle and gross levels. Occasionally these vibrations affect us in ways we are unaware of and some we can measure with the way they make us feel.
When we feel at peace we know we are where we are meant to be. When we feel uneasy, we can surmise that something is not right and not serving our highest purpose. But bear in mind that if our mind is not serving us correctly that being in even the right place will still feel wrong.
Sometimes we need to heal ourselves of the past so that we can benefit from the present and recognize where we are meant to be. Meditation helps to bring healing and helps to bring us out of the past to be more mindful of the present.
The beauty of nature also touches us and heals us on so many levels often inspiring us to relax and slow down from the hectic pace that we have grown accustomed to. The vibration of the trees, the flowers, and the earth beneath our feet bring a serenity that not many things in life offer. The fresh air, the gentle music of a bird’s song, the vibrant colours of myriad flowers and leaves, soothes the senses and reminds us that there is life in abundance beyond the cold city walls.
Have you ever communed with a tree or a flower? Within their silence is the essence of love. If you can become as still and silent as the tree, the tree will reveal many secrets, but only if you listen from within. The tree’s silent centre is the same centre that exists in you, in every animal, in every plant, in every drop of water. It is only within this silence that life can be know, that love can be known.
Perhaps, if you have been truly blessed and aware, you have met someone in which your silence and there silence have met. In that silence is the presence of love. Sitting with a person who has made meditation a part of their life it is bound to happen, because while others have been busy chasing fame and fortune, they instead have spent a good portion of their life searching for that silence.
Meditation – that is, the search inwards – is certain to bring one closer to their inner silence and once it has been found the lotus flower awakens. The lotus flower has always been there, it exists in everyone, from the sinner to the saint, but so few have taken the time to nurture it.
Just like any flower, it is fragile and needs to be tended to. A flower will not live without the right soil, the right amount of water, and the right amount of sunlight.
Think of all your thoughts, actions, and emotions as either sustenance for the lotus flower to blossom or as poison that will slowly make the flower wilt, wither and die.
Do you on a daily basis bring light to your being or darkness? Love awakens while hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, and so on, bring dis-ease.
If you come to sit with me, to meditate with me, I don’t want your words, beliefs and opinions. Words, beliefs and opinions never bring true commonality and often bring discord. Instead, sit with me in the presence of love, in stillness, in silence. Let my silence meet your silence and in that silence there can be no separation, only communion.
If you and I can sit together and merge from that place of shunya, of nothingness, then together we will know the greatest secret of life: that amidst the chaos of the world, amidst all our differences, and amidst all our conflicting beliefs, there is peace, there is oneness, there is love.