Images:
Sketch for new weaving
Weaving in process using
recycled dry cleaning hanger hooks and
Metallic sheath core fiber
No Expectations-Detaching from the Outcome
“No expectation, no anticipation of the outcome,” is a common
phrase that we use when commencing our meditation.
Useful in all aspects of life.
Sometimes new students get all tripped up when they begin
their first days of practice and their meditations are loaded
with a multitude of thoughts.
“This is not what I expected.”
“I thought it would feel different.”
When weaving new structures, each time I try something
new, I use the same simple, innocent technique I was taught in
meditation class.
Take it as it comes.
No anticipation or expectation of the outcome.
Let’s see how it goes. Keep it simple and natural.
In meditation, we sit comfortably with our back supported…
Close our eyes and, after half a minute, bring our special word
“mantra” as taught by a VM teacher into our awareness
and let it go from there.
Thoughts come and thoughts go; we don’t hold onto them.
After all, we have 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts rambling around
in our heads at any given time.
We don’t need to hold onto them.
Like weaving, it takes time to see the outcome.
I can do a drawing and perceive an outcome,
but not until you sit at the warped loom and
begin the weaving process, do you understand how it feels to weave it.
It doesn’t work if you are in a hurry to get it woven quickly.
We simply take it as it comes
and gently and effortlessly weave.
Things take time.
Practice takes time.
The repetition of an action like
meditation, where we can dig into our least excited state twice a day,
takes time, to get through all of the overabundance of expectations that
we put on ourselves. This is what stress is.
And that stress gets embedded in our cells.
Releasing that stress, a meditation at a time,
is our goal.
Every meditation is different;
every weave structure is different.
Give yourself the time to embody it.
+ to Enjoy it.
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