The Seeds we sow.
Love this time of year in the northern hemisphere
when the tops of grasses are sprouting their seeds for
next spring to take root. They are fluffy and fanciful.
Nature’s natural seasonal flow takes us to our closets as well.
Boxing or moving our summer clothes to make
room for our autumn and winter clothes.
This weaving of cotton and autumn grasses holds this changing
transitional time of year woven with beauty and content.
It holds both richness and rustic textures.
It’s in these transitional times
that we feel our senses more in our individual practices.
Dawn comes later and dusk comes earlier.
Both great times to do our meditation practice.
These four transitional morning times.
As colors shift.
Vedic Meditation offers us the use of a “Bija” (seed)
mantra which is used in our twice a day practice.
Each day, twice a day we sit with our eyes shut and draw
the mantra into our awareness. That’s all we need to do.
The effortless attention to the “mantra” (mind vehicle)
is essentially watering the seed.
The technique takes over, transcending.
Our thoughts sprout up which have no meaning in our
practice and we let them go and come back to watering the seed.
This seed turns into a stabilizing factor in our lives.
Just as the warp and weft stabilize the grasses.
We are essentially rooting ourselves and establishing
ourselves in our true sense of Being.
We get a sense of who we are minus all the stress
and anxiety, anger and sadness. That is not to say that
we don’t get stressed or angry at times.
Actually meditators feel their senses much stronger
then non meditators. It means we simply
don’t stay stressed. Which is the real cause of dis ease.
As we clean our closets, weave our art pieces, and
prune our gardens we recognize the importance
of all natural materials.
What we wear, that we are surrounded by and
what we design or create with.
These are the materials that have true stabilizing energy.
Deep in our roots we find meaning…
Sowing the seeds of stability in everything we do.
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