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May 04, 2009
The Beautiful Life Retreat Part 6 'Meditation of Attention'
Simon had ended one of the sessions by encouraging us to take part in a 'Meditation of Attention' The beauty of this meditation is that it can be done anywhere and the idea is that it helps us to focus, quieten our monkey minds and make connections between ourselves and other things/people in the world.
In the session I had chosen a small glass bottle and now in the silence I decided to go back to it.
The bottle is made of glass,
Ornate crystal glass,
As I stare,
The space inside the bottle becomes apparent,
I see myself as the bottle,
A container,
I can choose to fill myself up,
Or I can choose to be space,
Space for whatever comes along,
If I am always full it will prevent me from taking part in new experiences,
However this does mean I need to allow my contents to be tipped out often,
I ponder on how I feel about this,
I let my feelings surface and just sit with them,
They can not harm me, they are the ripples on the surface of the water.
My focus moves to the outside of the bottle,
It is hard and unmoving,
It has a beauty of sorts,
But it is easily chipped and broken,
In the glass on the outside a pattern has been imposed on it,
I realise that it wasn't there in the begining,
Not part of the original,
But where it is etched deep in places,
It allows the light inside,
Again I ponder, does it have any value?
The bottle has a stopper in the top,
Keeping the inside separate from the outside,
I have a urge to take the stopper out and discard it,
As I sit this urge becomes bigger and bigger until I step forward and remove the stopper,
My space is so much bigger than this small container.
I realise that this last sentence is a truth that comes to me over and over again and later I look back in my journal and find these words that I wrote at a time when everything around me was going a bit mad and threatening my well being.
I have so much space inside me
That nothing can overwhelm me
All can be held
And all things must pass
Leaving clear glorious space
Posted by Shelliz at May 4, 2009 10:41 AM