Down and up

Today was a strange combination. I woke up at 5.30. I peacefully meditated. I felt filled with light, and with knowing that all is well. Nothing needs to change. I can let go and accept that all is as it is. Accept that all is love. Myself and others and all that is. There is [...]

Compassionate witness or inspector?

Being in the moment means observing awareness as well as being and doing. Wayne Dyer calls this taking the position of the compassionate witness to your life. This is part of awareness of love and perfection in the moment. I try to nurture it.  
This morning though I noticed that quite often my observer is [...]

On chanting and the best of all possible worlds

I chant the Lotus Sutra, nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is part of many Buddhist traditions, but I have learned it through SGI Buddhism. To me, what it stands for is the divine perfection of everything. When I chant nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the primary focus I have is that everything is perfect as it is, and also perfect in how [...]

Letting go of little things

Today was about letting small changes flow naturally into my time, letting go of the resistance. It wasn’t easy, but it did evolve, with degrees of acceptance. It increased my awareness of how letting go of little things on a moment to moment basis makes a big difference to enjoying and being in the present. 
I [...]

Loss

It’s been hard this afternoon. The feeling in my nose chased away as it has off and on, and hasn’t really come back over the past few hours. The left side of my face won’t move properly, and my left back molar feels loose, the gum has receded. Air feels cold in my numb nostrils, [...]

Purpose and peace

So many of us want so much to be helping, to be making a contribution to our world, other people, other living creatures, the planet. We are driven by this, always judging ourselves, the way we spend our time, on how useful it is to some wider purpose, social or creative.  
There is nothing wrong [...]

The incredible lightness of being

I love that phrase, ‘the incredible lightness of being’. There is a book and movie called ‘the unbearable lightness of being’. That always fascinated me, too, although I haven’t read or seen it.  
‘The incredible lightness of being’ perfectly describes a feeling of freedom and harmony with everything, in the present. It can happen during [...]

Right attitude

The right attitude is to accept the divinity of what is, now. To live and be in the present, with what is, appreciating as much of it as possible.Feeling the life that is there. Letting go of the rest.
Letting go of the future.Including the immediate future. Letting go of responsibility for experience, mine and others. [...]

Peace changes

Thinking some more about having faith and letting go. It is not myself that I need to have faith in. It is the perfection of the universe. Which sometimes I can sense, when I am at peace. Peace is usually there in meditation, in chanting. I can feel myself as part of everything, the environment, [...]

Letting go

Last night I felt a release. A release in holding myself tense. In holding myself responsible. Most particularly, in holding myself responsible for future outcomes, in blaming myself for them.Things are as they are. I am and I do and I have done everything that I can do, everything that it is in me to [...]