Coming Home Meditations This Week ~ Being Here ๐โจ๐๐ป
This week in meditation we feel what it's like to commit to being here on earth with each other as fully as possible right now
Dear Friends,
Join me as we explore pure presence and being here now with each other. We meet tomorrow (Tuesday) from 9-10am EST and Thursday at noon EST.
Itโs weird here on Earth, isnโt it? As I once said aloud and realized as I was saying it, this is the kind of thing I can imagine on my tombstone:
โIt was all so beautiful but it also hurt a lot.โ
Whatโs on my mind and in my heart to share this week is presence, REAL PRESENCE. I feel like my path has been a giant spiral winding itโs way to the center of this experience. Iโve dedicated myself to being with what is arising to the best of my ability moment-to-moment. This has meant cultivating a compassionate vigilance to root out anything that keeps me absent or allows me to bypass. This has meant a lot of honest self-inquiry.
Of course, I can only deal with what I see and what I am prepared to turn towards. I saw a quote recently that was something like, โThe hard conversation is by definition the one you donโt want to have.โ How true. In any given moment, there are plenty of things I cannot see (yet) and plenty of things Iโd rather not deal with or experience right now. There are plenty of ways Iโd rather feel or ways Iโd rather be seen or ways Iโd rather life was going or things I wished hadnโt happened. Preferences. Expectations. Attachments. Aversions. Hopes. Fears. Strange fixations. Habits. Overwhelm. These are just a few of the ways I find myself exiting reality and not being fully present.
I love pursuing presence, but the real art is simply being it. Right now. In this moment. Thereโs always something to fix. And thereโs also the option to just BE PURE PRESENCE NOW. A friend of mine once called this state: โno more healing to be done.โ I love this. Sometimes I feel like the healing is endless and sometimes I feel complete like โno more healing to be done.โ I think both states are always simultaneously true.
This topic feels important to me right now because the world is demanding our full participation. It feels to meโthis could be my old pattern recognition kicking inโlike many people I know who have had a rich, contemplative spiritual practice over the last few years have been called in myriad ways to attend to LIFE before all else. It can look like a choice or call away from the path, but of course it IS the path. For some itโs the death of a loved one, caretaking a sick or ailing child, the inheritance of land, a family relationship in need of repair, attending to oneโs proximate neighbors rather than online strangers, volunteering, aging, loss of a job or change of career, end of a marriage or beginning of a new phase of lifeโฆ
Itโs really beautiful, like the Universe is asking us to finally look at the world weโve created and deal with it, be with it, accept it or change it or love it into wholeness. We have to tend to it and to tend to it, we have to be here fully. We have to be present.
Tomorrow, weโll sit and experience an unconditional field of presence, love and acceptance. We will hold ourselves and each other in this space of loving awareness. We will try or succeed in really being here with each other, if only for a few moments. I think this is something we have to practice. Letโs see where weโre at with it.
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