Seaweed: Lunatic

Some thoughts about meditation for hard cases like me:                                                                            It's not a religion.

It doesn't require a lot of time.

No special skills are needed.

It's not about stopping your thinking or changing unwanted thoughts into pleasant ones.

It won't eliminate sadness or difficulties in your life.

You don't have to give up your passions or stop having fun in your life. 

I'm increasingly intrigued to think that all I am is one tiny flicker in the midst of a vast awareness.  I'm a wisp of cloud drifting across a limitless sky.  I'm a drop of water flowing down the middle of the Nile or the Mississippi or the Amazon.  I'm here, I'm gone, the river is still present, the sky is still there.  Here's a minute, now it's gone, that minute is just part of the flow of time.

"Notice the aware presence that exists behind your thoughts, behind your mind.  The real you is this aware presence, the space in which your mind operates."

The Toltecsd4

And then "I'll see you in the gap" makes more sense.  The inbetween-ness of everything.  

"Perhaps some of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.  We no longer live in a completely hostile world.  We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless."

The Big Book P 105

"Without prayer I should have been a lunatic a long time ago."

Mahatma Ghandi

This moment, just as it is, without judgement.