Impermanence and Interbeing
There are two things that have helped me with how I live my life.
Impermanence and Interbeing
There are two things that have helped me with how I live my life.
I was recently listening to a guided meditation on loving-kindness by Sharon Salzberg and underneath the audio file on the webpage was the following, so I thought I’d share it with you as it may help some of you.
“Every action, either physical or mental, every movement occurring either on the plane of gross matter or on the plane of the mind, causes an emission of energy. To use the established expression, it produces a “seed”.
In electrical theory, the less resistance in a wire, the more easily it can carry energy.
Imagine you had a field that could grow whatever you planted.
If you planted wheat seeds, you’d get a crop of wheat. If you planted poison ivy seeds, you get a crop of poison ivy.
When most people think of meditation they conjure up images of people sitting cross-legged for hours with serious expressions on their face trying hard to empty their minds, and that puts a lot of people off meditating.
You may have noticed that I have posted various articles and podcasts about meditation, and that’s generated some interesting conversations with people, many who I have known for many years and some who are very good friends.
Some people, I am sure, think that I’ve gone over to the ‘dark side’ as they see meditation and mindfulness as some form of ‘weird’ spirituality thing.
Others think that I have possibly gone soft, but none of that could be further from the truth.
Have you ever had the experience of having a problem, where you are caught up in thinking about all of the possible negative outcomes that could occur. Have you ever experienced the anxiety caused by the uncertainty of what could happen?
Recently I received news that a very lovely person I know suddenly died a week before Christmas, leaving his family completely devastated at the loss of a loving husband and father.