Essay Edition
Foundations of Mindful Presence
Mindfulness is utter beauty. In fact, I felt moved when I thought about talking about it because it is very dear to me.
We do not live in a world that encourages mindfulness. In fact, it encourages the very opposite and conditions us to the very opposite.
Mindfulness means that our consciousness is active, that we are not living in a mindless state of inertia, inadvertence, absent-mindedness, missing beauty. That is why I say mindfulness is utter beauty, because in mindfulness, we can see and feel the majesty of existence in the moment. It brings us into presence.
Mindfulness generates a karma, the energetic repercussions of action, that helps us to become more alive, less asleep. When we are not mindful, there is a tendency to miss everything. You put food in your mouth, and it is in your stomach, and you did not even realize it happened. It could have been the most incredibly delicious food. You could have had the most beautiful company, and you might have missed the whole thing. Before you know it, time has elapsed, and you were not there to witness it.
Mindfulness means that when we act, what we do, we do with intentionality. The alternative is to act with conditioning. You go on autopilot, and nothing is intentional. But when we are mindful, we are intentional. Every movement, every action, is a part of our conscious decision. We are simultaneously aware of what is happening and participating in what is happening.
Mindfulness starts with the physical. When you walk, you are aware of your feet moving. When you talk, you are aware of your voice speaking, but primarily the movement.
When one gets into a more subtle practice of mindfulness, it is not just the mundane physicality that is moving, but the energetic subtlety that is moving. You become aware that your Sushumna needs to be in a certain condition. Your third eye needs to be active. Your awareness field needs to be wide and attentive. The topology of it needs to be expanded.
If one is to make progress along the path to enlightenment, one has to be mindful. One has to do something about the mind, about consciousness. Without attention, one remains in a dormant form of inertia.
Inert and inertia are words that mean there is no life force. When something is vital, it is the opposite of inertia. When we are mindful, we have vitality.
We do not have to say that we have lived this way for thirty years and done this thing for thirty years, therefore that is how we continue, without any sense of hope that we could change. We can be in command of our own mind, our own life, our own body, our own movements, our own attention field.
This is one of the most priceless things. Meditation, mindfulness, and the capacity to see clearly are what make a conscious, futuristic mind and a beautiful experience of life.
We are highly encouraged not to be mindful. A lot of people take pride in learning to multitask to the point where they can do a bunch of things, get them done, and not even pay attention. That is very much attachment to the results of the actions.
It is a spiritual and wise sentiment to say it is not about the results of the action, but about the richness of the experience and the amount of heart one brings to each moment. Otherwise, we become mechanical. But when we bring heart to something, we become a contributor to the field and to our own subjective experience of the moment and of life.
Selling the moment for the results of our actions is selling our life away. These are the moments of our lives. What could be more sacred than to be present with them and with each other?
Meditation, Contemplation, and Lucidity
There are three cultivations. Meditation means to be able to go beyond. A lot of people say their biking, walking, or something else is their meditation. It is not their meditation. It is their mindfulness practice.
Meditation means to dissolve and go beyond form, to go into the light, which is the source, the essence, to melt down into your substance until there is no form, there is no transmutation, there is only the eternal reverberation of the moment and eternity.
Mindfulness is a necessary cultivation. In balancing with that, we go away, we come back, and we come back with full vitality and presence.
The third cultivation is lucidity, which means to see things as they are clearly. Or you might say contemplation, which is a practice of cultivating lucidity. These three things are absolutely essential to spiritual practice. No matter what denomination, path, or religion it is, you find them present in just about all of them. Those three elements are present in one form or another and emphasized as central to the teaching.
Would it be a spiritual practice without meditation? Then you would not be going to God. Would it be a spiritual practice without mindfulness? Then you would not have any discipline and presence. There would be no connection to the world. And if you cannot see the truth, which is contemplation, then how much wisdom could there be? Wisdom is the apprehension of the truth, not just the mundane truth, but what life is about.
Mindfulness starts with the physical, but it is also energetic awareness. When you have an energetic practice, you do your Dantian, you do your chakras, you go into light. Can you walk around in effulgent gold light while you are going to the grocery store, picking up your bananas? To develop the ability to do that, you have to learn to be mindful. Every traffic light is an opportunity.
Osho spoke of people trying to pass the time. They played cards or doodled because they were just passing the time, as if time were a burden somehow.
Every moment is an opportunity to flex our energetic state into a more desirable condition. A traffic light could be an opportunity to check Instagram, but it could also be an opportunity to get your Sushumna moving before the next traffic light. The next stop sign can be an opportunity to check the back of your spine and work with your granthis.
These are all opportunities, and this is a form of mindfulness. We are cultivating our subtle physical being and our access to the causal planes of light, the causal planes of luminosity.
Formal and Everyday Cultivation
You can practice mindfulness throughout the day, but you can also have a formal mindfulness practice. It is important to have a formal mindfulness practice. Physical Hatha yoga is an excellent formal mindfulness practice. In fact, that is quite a traditional one. Everything you do can become total presence with your movements and intentionality.
Tai Chi is a little more etheric. There is motion, but the motion is really about the part you cannot see. Whether somebody thinks I am waving my arms around or not, I am moving all the tethers between my chakras in a multidimensional way, and I am feeling incredibly good afterward. That is the mindfulness practice. It is the subtle physical cultivation and intentionality, as opposed to the more apparent physicality.
In yoga, you can do both. That is why yoga is useful. There is not a lot of movement, so you can focus on your energetic at the same time. Dance would be excellent as well. Any sport would be good. In Zen, they do walking meditation. They walk in a circle. They walk for a while.
Mindfulness is one of my five principles that I like to live by, principles that make me feel connected to the practice and the lifestyle of spirituality.
Having a formal practice that you do with consistency of space, time, and frequency allows you to cultivate mindfulness over many years. It becomes a part of you, and you become a powerful being of attention.
You could do fifteen minutes a day at a set time. Usually, it should be a daily frequency in this case. You can complement it with a weekly or monthly frequency as well, for a deeper practice or a secondary practice.
Then there is the informal practice of mindfulness. Eating is a very significant place to practice mindfulness. Look at your food. Put it in your mouth. Taste your food. Put the fork down so you can chew it and give it your full attention without having to hold the fork.
Mindfulness means that you are giving your full attention to what you are doing, and you are generally doing one thing at a time. You are doing it for karma. If we prioritize karma more than productivity, then we become an attention field that is more beautiful and powerful, and that can actually be quite productive as well.
Eating means noticing things. I am chewing my food the way I want to chew it. I am noticing the flavors, the color of the food, the temperature of the food, and the way the food alters my body as enzymes activate, as my system becomes hydrated, as my nervous system responds to heat and cold.
Be aware when you cut vegetables. Do one thing at a time. I am cutting the vegetable. Cut, cut, cut, cut. You are not going to cut your finger very easily. You probably will never cut your finger if you are not distracted and you are giving your full attention to what you are doing.
Mindfulness is love, because without it, how are you giving your attention to the other? Cucumber, thank you, cucumber. I will cut the cucumber. I am loving the cucumber and the knife, and cutting with love.
Love means I am listening. Mindfulness and listening go together. It allows us to attend to the necessity of the moment, to whatever is in the field, to act on behalf of the totality for its greater good, because I am paying attention.
You can be mindful when you put your clothes on, when you get out of bed. Instead of hopping out of bed mindlessly, get out of bed with intentionality, with gratitude.
Gratitude is an energetic aspect of mindfulness. I bow every time I cross the street because I am feeling gratitude. I was over there, and I am going to be over here, and that moment will not come again. I am saying goodbye and acknowledging it. There is a great deal of gratitude in the practice.
Mindfulness is not a burdensome, impractical way of living. It is wise, productive, and leveraged. The individual who is not mindful is unlikely to move mountains with their pinky finger. They will run in circles and go backward. They will cut the cucumber and mess up or cut themselves, and they will waste all this time.
But when you do everything intentionally, you can do the right thing, the right way, as much as it is needed, and bring a lot of wisdom and spiritual power to the moment that shifts souls. The people around you will see reality differently, and so will you. You will bring magic into the moment.
That is practical. Magic is practical.
The Discipline of Attention
When I betray my mindfulness practice, it hurts. I have noticed myself become less connected to it, and I think it is important to renew one’s clarity, the lucidity and contemplation factor, around mindfulness. It is important to practice it and to have sangha and people who normalize it, so that it is something to be expected and something for which space is held. The social condition for it is open.
Mindfulness allows us to retain spiritual energy so that between meditations, we do not completely eradicate our progress. We either make more progress or lessen ourselves from becoming too gross in the process. Every meditation lifts us up, and sometimes that state trails down a little. If you are mindful, you can maintain that state longer.
Think about a great artist or some very powerful being or individual. When they walk, you say that person is walking with something special. A Michael Jackson, a Bruce Lee, a great scientist or artist of some kind brings a presence that creates a wake of sacredness and spirituality around them.
These individuals have not dispersed their attention with undisciplined exercise. They live their life that way. They live in discipline, not a discipline that is self-induced pain, but a discipline that liberates us from inadvertence and mindlessness, which is the most painful way to live, the most numb way to live.
I used to walk from my apartment to my car, and I would feel everything move around me. When you walk, the buildings go backward as you walk forward. I would walk, and I would feel everything.
If I was spacing out, not paying attention, and there was a lapse in attention, thirty seconds went by and I missed it. I was not even there. I was daydreaming about something. There was a sense of loss, a sense that I had missed what was happening, that I had not given it my love, my gratitude, and my awareness, and that my karma had degraded in the process.
Every act can become an act of devotion and practice, and you can become a continuous cultivation of sacredness when you live this way.
The key phrase is this: give your full attention to what you are doing, and do one thing at a time.
Whatever you are doing, do that. If you are coding, doing mathematics, dancing, listening to a friend, a child, a husband, or a wife, meditating, doing Tai Chi or yoga, whatever it is, give your full attention to that. Do it with impeccability and honor. Honor the thing. It is a way of honoring life.
When we sit down to meditate, we either have the karma of a diffuse mind, or we can sit down and get started. Sometimes, if you have had an unmindful day, you sit down and it takes thirty minutes to get into the meditation.
When people say they cannot meditate, or that they are beginners and should meditate less, I think they have it backward. If you really cannot meditate, sit for a whole hour, and maybe you will get five minutes of real meditation at the end, instead of five minutes of mind-wandering in the beginning.
Meditation Through Luminosity
Mindfulness is related to the third eye, the navel center, and the heart. The navel center gives us the will to be in command of ourselves, and the third eye gives us the attention to be aware of ourselves. The heart gives us the wisdom to know what to do.
Focus into the light, feel your heart, or simply observe the is-ness without response or judgment.
If you can, intend the light, the luminosity. Let it permeate your space. Let the intelligence of the light remedy any incorrect energetic structures until they align.
Notice the color of the light. Notice the feeling, the pressure it has in the auric field. Let the light be purified by the heart center. It can bring vitality to the navel center or your physical body, and healing. Let it act on your third eye, subduing the mind, bringing the mind into clarity and presence.
Light is the source, the essence, and ultimately, our substance. When we meditate on the light, there is this dance we do with it to make it reveal itself and awaken.
Find out how to increase the luminosity. You should be able to physically feel the light in your microcosmic orbit, nervous system, and aura, even outside the body. Brightness is a palpable feeling.
Clear your space with your intentionality and increase the light.
A useful metaphor is that of a rocket ship. For eight minutes, the rocket accelerates to orbital velocity, and then, outside the atmosphere, it coasts with minimal energetic course corrections.
Get into orbit. Clear your space. Make it so there is so much light that you can let go and do nothing, and just be the light.
First, it is doing. Then it is non-doing. Ultimately, meditation is not a doing. It is opening the door to meditative non-doing.
In mystical practice, we use the light to undergo a metamorphosis and transmutation. It is a panacea for the mind and beyond.
Let your heart emanate the light. There is a star-like source light shining from your heart, and that will clear everything. Begin to coast. Let meditation become that which need not be asserted.
Keep your head up, the chakras open, and access to the light. The light also gives us a means by which we can purify the chakras.
Once you are in the light, it is nice to go over the chakras, particularly the Dantian. Activate and purify the third eye using the light. Feel the heart in the center of the chest and the navel center in the lower abdomen near the belly button. Check in with the crown, right on top of the head. Make sure that is active. You should feel a little energy there.
Then feel the full body, the arms, the tops of the hands, and the palms. Finally, feel the heart and the meditation.
Renewal.
Full Transcript
Adam Wes Welcome, everybody. Let's just wait a few minutes.
You look nice, Mom.
Namaste, everybody. Welcome. So nice to see you, Andrea. And Kira, are you coming back? Should we wait a moment? Right? Cool. They don't have to come back? This is a good time?
Foundations of Mindful Presence
The sermon today is on mindfulness.
Mindfulness is utter beauty. In fact, I felt moved when I just thought about talking about it because it's very dear to me.
Of course, we don't live in a world that encourages mindfulness. In fact, it encourages the very opposite and conditions us to the very opposite.
Mindfulness means that our consciousness is active, that we are not living in a mindless state of inertia, inadvertence, absent-mindedness, missing beauty. That's why I say mindfulness is utter beauty, because in mindfulness, we can see and feel the majesty of existence in the moment. It brings us into presence.
Mindfulness generates a karma, the energetic repercussions of action, that helps us to become more alive, less asleep. When we're not mindful, there's a tendency to miss everything. You put food in your mouth, and it's in your stomach, and you didn't even realize it happened. It could have been the most incredibly delicious food. You could have had the most beautiful company. Kira might have been there, and you might have missed the whole thing. Before you know it, time has elapsed, and you weren't there to witness it.
Mindfulness means that when we act, what we do, we do with intentionality. The alternative is to act with conditioning. You just go on autopilot, and nothing's intentional. But when we're mindful, we are intentional. Every movement, every action, is a part of our conscious decision. We are simultaneously aware of what's happening and participating in what's happening.
Mindfulness starts with the physical. When you walk, you're aware of your feet moving. When you talk, you're aware of your voice speaking, but primarily the movement.
When one gets into a more subtle practice of mindfulness, it's not just the mundane physicality that's moving, but the energetic subtlety that's moving. So you become aware: My Sushumna needs to be in a certain condition. My third eye needs to be active. My awareness field needs to be wide and attentive. The topology of it needs to actually be expanded.
If one is to make progress along the path to enlightenment, they have to be mindful. They have to do something about their mind, about their consciousness. Without attention, one just remains in a dormant form of inertia.
You know the word inert, right? Inert and inertia, these are words that mean there's no life force to it. When something is vital, it's the opposite of inertia. So when we're mindful, we have vitality.
It doesn't mean we've lived this way for 30 years, we've done this thing for 30 years, therefore that's how we continue, without any sense of hope that we could change. Right? It means we're in command of our own mind, our own life, our own body, our own movements, our own attention field.
This is one of the most priceless things. Meditation, mindfulness, and the capacity to see clearly are what make a conscious, futuristic mind and beautiful experience of life.
We're highly encouraged not to be mindful. In fact, a lot of people take pride in learning to multitask to the point where you can do a bunch of things, and you get them done, and you weren't even paying attention. But wow, you got them done. That's very much attachment to the results of the actions.
It's a spiritual and wise sentiment to say it's not about the results of the action, but about the richness of the experience and the amount of heart one brings to each moment. Otherwise, we just become mechanical. But when we bring heart to something, we become a contributor to the field and to our own subjective experience of the moment and of life.
Selling the moment for the results of our actions is selling our life away. These are the moments of our lives. What could be more sacred than to be present with them and with each other?
Meditation Contemplation and Lucidity
So, these three cultivations. Meditation means to be able to go beyond. A lot of people say, "Oh, my biking, or my walking, or my XYZ is my meditation." No, it's not your meditation. It's your mindfulness practice.
Meditation means to dissolve and go beyond form, to go into the light, which is the source, the essence, to melt down into your substance until there's no form, there's no transmutation, there's only the eternal reverberation of the moment and eternity.
Mindfulness is a necessary cultivation. In balancing with that, we go away, we come back, and we come back with full vitality and presence.
The third one is lucidity, which means to see things as they are clearly. Or you might say contemplation, which is a practice of cultivating lucidity. These three things are absolutely essential to spiritual practice. No matter what denomination or path or religion it is, you find them present in just about all of them, as far as I can think of. Those three elements are present in one form or another and emphasized as central to the teaching.
Would it be a spiritual practice without meditation? Well, then you wouldn't be going to God. Would it be a spiritual practice without mindfulness? Well, then you wouldn't have any discipline and presence. There would be no connection to the world. And if you can't see the truth, which is contemplation, then how much wisdom could there be? Because wisdom is the apprehension of the truth, not just the mundane truth, but what life is about.
Mindfulness starts with the physical, but it's also energetic awareness. So when you have an energetic practice, you do your Dantian, you do your chakras, you go into light. Can you walk around in effulgent gold light while you're going to the grocery store, picking up your bananas?
Well, how would somebody ever possibly develop the ability to do that? Well, Kira, they would have to learn to be mindful. Every traffic light is an opportunity.
I love how Osho said this. He said people are trying to pass the time, right? So he walks up to people and says, "Why are you playing cards? Why are you doodling?" And they're like, "Oh, we're just passing the time," as if the time were a burden somehow.
Every moment is an opportunity to flex our energetic state into a more desirable condition. So, a traffic light could be an opportunity to check Instagram, but it also could be an opportunity to get your Sushumna moving enough before the next traffic light. Right? That way, you've got a lot of Sushumna movement between there and the next traffic light.
And hey, did you check the back of your spine? Your granthis are really blocked up. Hey, you should really do that at the next stop sign. Right? These are all opportunities, and this is a form of mindfulness. We're cultivating our subtle physical being and our access to the causal planes of light, the causal planes of luminosity.
Formal and Everyday Cultivation
You can practice mindfulness throughout the day, but you can also have a formal mindfulness practice. It's really important that you have a formal mindfulness practice. Physical Hatha yoga is an excellent formal mindfulness practice. In fact, that's quite a traditional one.
So, Mom, when you're doing that, just become a powerful Zen monk about it. Everything you're doing is total presence with your movements and intentionality.
Tai Chi, that's what I do. Tai Chi is a little bit more etheric. There's motion, but the motion's really about the part you can't see. Whether somebody thinks I'm waving my arms around or not, no, I'm moving all the tethers between my chakras in a multidimensional way, and I'm feeling incredibly good after this. That's the mindfulness practice. It's the subtle physical cultivation and intentionality, as opposed to the more apparent physicality.
Now, in yoga, you can do both. That's why yoga's actually useful. There's not a lot of movement, so you can focus on your energetic at the same time. Dance would be an excellent one as well. Any sports would be good. In Zen, they do walking meditation. They just walk in a circle. They just walk for a while.
Mindfulness is one of my five principles that I like to live by that make me feel connected to the practice and the lifestyle of spirituality.
Having a formal practice that you do with space, time, and frequency consistency allows you to cultivate mindfulness over many years. It becomes a part of you, and you become a powerful being of attention.
You could do 15 minutes a day of this at this time. Usually, it should be a daily frequency in this case. You can complement it with a weekly frequency or monthly frequency as well, for a deeper practice, for example, or a secondary practice.
Then there's the informal practice of mindfulness. Eating is a very significant place to practice mindfulness. Look at your food. Put it in your mouth. Taste your food. Put the fork down so you can chew it and give it your full attention without having to hold the fork. Right?
Mindfulness means that you're giving your full attention to what you're doing, and you're generally doing one thing at a time. You're doing it for karma. If we prioritize karma more than productivity, then we become an attention field that's more beautiful and powerful, and that can actually be quite productive as well.
Eating means noticing things. I'm chewing my food the way I want to chew it. I'm noticing the flavors, the color of the food, the temperature of the food, and the way the food alters my body as enzymes activate, as my system becomes hydrated, as my nervous system responds to heat, to cold.
Be aware when you cut vegetables. Do one thing at a time. I'm cutting the vegetable. Cut, cut, cut, cut. Well, you're not going to cut your finger very easily. You probably will never cut your finger if you aren't distracted and you're giving your full attention to what you're doing.
Mindfulness is love, because without it, how are you giving your attention to the other? Cucumber, thank you, cucumber. I will cut the cucumber. I'm loving the cucumber and the knife, and cutting with love.
Love means I'm listening. Mindfulness and listening go together. It allows us to attend to the necessity of the moment, to whatever is in the field, to act on behalf of the totality for its greater good, because I'm paying attention.
You can be mindful when you put your clothes on, when you get out of bed. Instead of just hopping out of bed mindlessly, get out of bed with intentionality, with gratitude.
Gratitude is an energetic aspect of mindfulness. Kira's seen me do it. She's like, "Why do you bow every time you cross the street?" Well, because I'm feeling gratitude. I was over there, and I'm going to be over there, and that moment won't come again. So I'm saying goodbye and acknowledging it, and there's a great deal of gratitude in the practice.
Mindfulness is not a burdensome, impractical way of living, though. It's wise, productive, and leveraged. I think that's the key. The individual who's not mindful is unlikely to move mountains with their pinky finger. They'll run in circles and go backwards. They'll cut the cucumber and mess up or cut themselves, and they will waste all this time.
But when you do everything intentionally, you can do the right thing, the right way, as much as it's needed, and bring a lot of wisdom and spiritual power to the moment that shifts souls. The people around you will see reality differently, and so will you. You'll bring magic into the moment.
That's practical. Magic is practical.
Namaste. Any questions?
Thanks for going into mindfulness with me. I feel quite alone with the topic most of the time.
Shared Reflections on Attention
Colleen I know I'm not very mindful a lot of the time, so I heard a lot of me in the things I shouldn't do. Sometimes I'm walking around with my phone, looking for my phone.
Adam Wes Right. Yeah. Well, I've done that recently. When I betray my mindfulness practice, it hurts.
I've noticed myself get a little less connected to it, and I think it's important to renew one's clarity, that's the lucidity and contemplation factor, around mindfulness, and practice it, and have sangha and people who normalize it so that it's actually something to be expected and something that space is held for. The social condition for it is open.
Kira, would you like to add anything? I'd love to hear. Thanks, Mom. That was beautiful, what you said.
Kira Thanks, Adam. Yes, I'm observing the way in which you have acted as an anchor of mindfulness in my life.
As you're saying that, I'm realizing that you may be feeling alone. You said you feel a little bit alone in that, and I want to share that I would like to deepen and grow in that area and hold a wavelength together of mindfulness.
I think I'm really strong in the daily practice, and I'm looking for the opportunity to continue that throughout the day. I'm realizing how mindfulness is the key for that.
I'm also loving this opportunity that we have in every moment, because I'm wanting to take the light practice into more of the day. So, not just during sitting meditation, but for it to be, like you said, to walk into a grocery store and be effulgent with light, or just in the full glow of the luminosity of reality. Mindfulness feels very much like a key to that.
Adam Wes Yeah. Mindfulness allows us to retain spiritual energy so that between meditations, we don't just completely eradicate our progress. We either make more progress or lessen ourselves from becoming too gross in the process. Right?
Every meditation, we kind of lift ourselves up, and sometimes it kind of trails down a little bit. If you're mindful, you can maintain that state longer.
Just think about a great artist or some very powerful being or individual. When they walk, you say, "Whoa, that person is walking with something special." A Michael Jackson, a Bruce Lee, a great scientist or artist of some kind, who brings a presence that creates a wake of sacredness and spirituality around them.
These individuals have not dispersed their attention with undisciplined exercise. They live their life that way. They live in discipline, not in a discipline that's self-induced pain, but a discipline that liberates us from inadvertence and mindlessness, which is the most painful way to live, the most numb way to live.
There's a sense that I have. I used to walk from my apartment to my car, and I would walk and feel everything move around me. Because when you walk, the buildings go backwards when you walk forwards, right? So I would walk, and I would feel everything.
If I was spacing out, not paying attention, and there was this lapse in attention, and 30 seconds went by and I missed it, I wasn't even there. I was just daydreaming about something. There's a sense of loss, a sense of, "Wait, I missed what was happening. I didn't give it my love and my gratitude and my awareness, and my karma got degraded in the process."
Every act can become an act of devotion and practice, and you can become a continuous cultivation of sacredness when you live this way.
I would say the key phrase is: Give your full attention to what you're doing, and do one thing at a time.
Whatever you're doing, do that. If you're coding, you're doing mathematics, you're dancing, you're listening to a friend, or a child, or a husband, or a wife, you're meditating, you're doing Tai Chi, yoga, whatever it is, give your full attention to that. Do it with impeccability and honor. Honor the thing. It's a way of honoring life.
Thanks, Kira.
Andrea, anything you want to add? I would love to hear if you have something to add, or a question. No? Yes? Was it agreeable for you, Andrea?
Andrea P Yes. It was very nice, but I'm sick. I have COVID, so I don't want to talk.
Adam Wes Aw, I'm sorry.
Andrea P No, it's fine. I hope this will charge me.
Adam Wes Okay, good, good, good. Aw. See? Love Lights Sangha. Kind people.
All right, let's meditate. 6:31.
When we sit down to meditate, we either have the karma of a diffuse mind, or we can sit down and just get started. Right? Sometimes, if you've had an unmindful day, you sit down and it takes 30 minutes to really get into the meditation.
When people say, "Oh, I can't meditate," or, "Oh, I'm a beginner, so I should meditate less," I actually think they have it backwards. If you really can't meditate, sit for a whole hour, and maybe you'll get five minutes of real meditation, at least at the very end, instead of just five minutes of mind-wandering in the beginning.
Cool. All right, you guys are great. Where's Ariella?
Colleen I'll tell you later.
Adam Wes Okay. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. What shall we listen to?
Meditation Through Luminosity
Mindfulness is related to the third eye, the navel center, and the heart, I guess. The navel center gives us the will to be in command of ourselves, and the third eye gives us the attention to be aware of ourselves. The heart gives us the wisdom to know what to do.
Doop, doop.
So happy you're here, Kira. Missed you.
Focus into the light, or feel your heart, or simply observe the is-ness without response or judgment.
If you can, intend the light, the luminosity. Let it permeate your space. Let the intelligence of the light remedy any incorrect energetic structures until they align.
Notice the color of the light. Notice the feeling, the pressure it has in the auric field. Let the light be purified by the heart center.
It can also bring vitality to the navel center or your physical body, and healing. Let it act on your third eye, subdue the mind, bringing the mind into clarity and presence.
Light is the source, the essence, and ultimately, our substance. So when we meditate on the light, there's this dance we do with it to make it reveal itself and awaken.
Find out how to increase the luminosity. You should be able to physically feel the light in your microcosmic orbit, nervous system, and aura, outside the body even. Brightness. It's a palpable feeling.
Clear your space with your intentionality and increase the light.
A useful metaphor is that of a rocket ship. For eight minutes, the rocket accelerates to orbital velocity, and then, outside of the atmosphere, coasts, with minimal energetic course corrections.
So let's get into orbit. Clear your space. Make it so there's so much light that you can let go and do nothing, and just be the light.
First, it's doing. Then it's non-doing. Ultimately, meditation is not a doing. It's opening the door to meditative non-doing.
In mystical practice, we use the light to undergo a metamorphosis and transmutation. It's a panacea for the mind and beyond.
For this song, let your heart emanate the light. There's a star-like source light shining from your heart, and that'll clear everything. The song feels like that.
Begin to coast. Let meditation become that which need not be asserted.
Keep your head up, the chakras open, access to the light. But the light also gives us a means by which we can purify the chakras.
Once you're in the light, it's also nice to go over the chakras, particularly the Dantian. So just have a nice little moment of activating and purifying the third eye using the light.
There's the heart in the center of the chest, the navel center in the lower abdomen near the belly button.
Check in with the crown, right on top of the head. Make sure that's active. You should feel a little energy up there.
Let's just do a quick scan.
Bindu chakra, behind the crown, in the top of the head, where the baby's soft spot is, the flat part of the skull.
Back of the head, Vishnu, Shiva granthi. Going down, clearing the neck. Back at the heart, Vishnu granthi. Down to the node behind the solar plexus in the spine. Down to the Brahma granthi, lower back area. Looping around under the pelvis, hitting all the relevant places. Root chakra, second chakra. Up to the navel, mid-abdomen, solar plexus. All the way through the heart, going all the way up to the throat chakra. Through the top of the mouth, pineal gland, center of the brain, and out the nose, Ida and Pingala channels.
And just the full body, arms, tops of the hands, palms. Then, of course, just feeling the heart and the meditation.
Namaste. Renewal.
All right. Meditation like that should feel massively clearing. I hope you guys felt that. It looks like you did.
Mom, would you like to do a quick share? Or as long as you want.
Colleen Okay, that went very fast.
Adam Wes Yeah, it was 30 minutes, 31 minutes.
Colleen I know you like me to tell you the colors. It started off with red and a mauve, like a light purple. You say mauve. Then, when you changed the music, it was like planets in different colors.
Adam Wes Oh. That sounds cosmically astral. Wonderful. Namaste, Mom.
Colleen Thank you, Adam.
Adam Wes Good job. Look, you look radiant.
How about you, Kira? Yay, Kira!
Kira So happy to be back. Thank you so much. It's lovely to see everyone.
Not much to say. It feels good to be back, and I'm looking forward to cultivating more with everyone.
Adam Wes Wonderful. Namaste. Thank you.
Kira Namaste.
Adam Wes How about you, Andrea?
Andrea P It was really nice. I haven't been here for three weeks, so I did miss you.
Adam Wes Aw.
Andrea P I feel recharged. I feel better. It was nice. Thank you.
Adam Wes Good. It makes such a difference when you're here. I mean, it's a small group. I'm getting together with you guys, so thanks for being my weekly meditation friends.
All right, and Daddy-O, I know you probably don't want to share. Thanks for being here. I love you.
All right, guys. Enjoy your daily mindfulness practice, your daily contemplation practice, your daily, bi-daily, not bi-daily, semi-daily, twice-daily meditation practices, and your day-round mindfulness.
I'm being somewhat facetious, but anything that you would like to do in there, enjoy it.
All right, everybody. Namaste. Thank you. Bye!