Meditation Is Making Love with Your Own Soul

My crown is tingling.  My heart is bursting with love.  My feet are vibrating, aching to walk on the fabric of the earth, to share this love that has overtaken me.  The sun is caressing my third eye.  My breathing is slow, connected and full.  I am grateful to be alive and in form.

Lord Shiva having himself a nice morning meditation

I have just spent 25 minutes meditating and chanting.  The world looks and feels completely different than it did before my meditation.

Except for the rare occasion when I awaken from a lucid dream (what I call a “God dream”), I don’t usually awaken with gratitude.  I usually find myself feeling more a sense of uneasiness as I begin thinking about all the things “I should do” today.  I seem to land in the collective mainstream of consciousness where I feel pulled to do, rather than to be.  Thank LOVE I have the awareness that I am not the anxiousness that I feel in these moments.  I know this because I have experienced the shift in my state of consciousness immediately after I meditate.   Before my meditation this morning I was perceiving reality through the lens of my personality/ego.   Now I am perceiving through heart-centered awareness.  I am here in this moment – and it feels wonderful!

Do you intend to keep a meditation practice, but find yourself avoiding it? As long as you see meditation and mantra practice as a “should”, your personality will find a multitude of ways to avoid it.  Instead, long for it deeply, with passion. Long for it as you would long to merge with your beloved.  You don’t have challenges finding the desire to hold, kiss and cocoon with your beloved, do you?  Probably not.  And yet, all the love and desire you have for your lover is you.  It is your love.  It is your own personal powerhouse of energy, radiating from the core of your soul.  There is nothing more intoxicating and nourishing than to open yourself and receive this love from your own soul.  When you begin to choose and move from this knowing, sitting down to meditate will shape-shift from a mental discipline into an ecstatic re-union of your internal lover and its be-loved.

Yes – meditation is making love with your own soul.

Lama Humour

Yes, of course the Dalai Lama gets on here. My favourite image is of the Dalai Lama chortling away at some private joke. He epitomizes smiling truth. Don't teach with dry dogma, laugh your way to nirvana. And you don't have to be a Buddhist to chuckle (see atheism or Judaism). Haha Yoga is alive and doing well. Life isn't all smiles, and even lamas are human. It is so easy to drift away from laughter. But lighten up people - laugh at yourself more often and give away smiles to strangers on the street. Some humour can be earthy. Some can be sublime. All is good. But dry wit is priceless.

A man in a movie theatre notices what looks like a llama sitting next to him. "Are you a llama?" asked the man, surprised. "Yes." "What are you doing at the movies?" The llama replied, "Well, I liked the book."