Let silence take you to the core of life. All your talk is worthless. When compared to one whisper of the Beloved. – Rumi

Lately, I have not felt like writing, or reading, or speaking.  I desire Silence. Stillness. Awareness. Breath. Myself. Sitting. Very strange compared to how I used to be a year ago, so extroverted, so on the go, so social, so friendly… but now… I am certain silence is the name of the game.

I participated in a ten day silent meditation retreat over thanksgiving and so much can be written about that but I do not yet have the words to share that experience because I am still so much in it.  I have crossed the threshold from reading about things and ‘knowing’ them IN TO the world of EXPERIENCE, which is exactly what ten days of learning Vipassana is designed to do.  The only thing I do want to mention is the first three days were extremely challenging to my mind and body.  It was as if my mind was a bucking bronco, wild, unruly, unfriendly, kicking and screaming… but then on the fourth day, and the first 8-9am sitting of strong determination, I SAT STILL for the whole hour.  In that hour I crossed the threshold, I tamed the bronco, put a saddle on it, and together we rode ahead in to the depths of the mind/body connection… deeper and deeper and deeper still we ride together.  So beautiful. Words cannot touch upon the Peace that brings, even amidst pain or discomfort.

When the mind is so distracted externally it cannot fully focus on what is happening in the body, and where is our primary awareness on, where are we housed? How do we move around this reality we’ve found ourselves in?The Body.  It is worthwhile to explore it then, wouldn’t you agree?

And while I am not sure Vipassana is going to be MY meditation Technique (I have a fondness and special connection with Guru Paramahansa Yogananda so I may end up going the Kriya Yoga way)…. This is a great start inwards.

Silence. Even to express this, I am silently typing.. but these words, ah these words, letters put together that apart have no meaning but once combined express something!?! LOOK DEEPER. LOOK BEYOND. LOOK IN. What does it express??? Who made it up? Whatever is here, in this universe, is hidden in plain sight.  Do you see? all around…

bodies, skin, bones, atoms, light
Penetrate Yourself – Master Yourself