Keeping it Real or Getting a better perspective on situations

Dear All,

Two more group meditations sessions before Christmas, which could set you up nicely for 2015.

Have you watched the Matrix films? If you get a chance try and  re-watch the first one in the series. It has some deep concepts of the nature of reality which is borrowed from Eastern philosophy.

Below is a simplification of that philosophy.

See you tomorrow.

Regards

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Have you ever been in a tight spot and didn't know how you were going to get out of a difficult situation? Well, your meditation can help with that. Here's how.

First a dream scenario:

You suddenly find yourself at the Pamplona Bull Run in Spain (see photo above), running for your life(apparently) from an angry bull. You're boxed in by the group of other runners close to you and you can see that the bull, with it's horns lowered, is about to catch you in a soft spot. In panic what do you do ? Is the answer a). leap onto the wall of the building on your immediate right and hope that the people on the balcony can pull you out of the danger  or b). take a dive to the left out of the direct path of the bull immediately behind you?

The correct answer is c). Wake up!

There are many situations in life where the correct answer is c). but where we choose either a). or b). as the solution. Neither a). or b). gets us out of the dream-state and so can only be very temporary solutions. The c). usually doesn't occur to us at all  - why? Because the dream has become the reality, our individual reality.

Translated into Sahaja yoga meditation terms, this is what's going on:

In human psychology, there are two features of  the mind that form the personality and creates for each one of us a virtual reality through which we view life and the world in general. These two are the Ego and the Super-Ego. The Ego is the forward-marching part of the personality and the Super-Ego is the one that retreats. The Ego caters to our future and the Super-Ego to our past, which are also represented by the right channel and left channel in the subtle body.

With regular meditation the sushumna or central channel is opened out. The central channel represents the present and travels through the agnya chakra in the forehead and opens out at the fontanelle at the crown of the head connecting you with Reality.

So when you find yourself in a situation and submit it to meditation, rather than mentally trying to work it out, you've chosen answer c) Wake up!