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“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last week we were talking about how the ego plays these tricks on us and gets us to believe that the things we’re learning that will help us to be in the Peaceful Present, are not going to work — or that they take too much time — or that the person we’re learning from isn’t doing a good job, etc. We’re starting to get a clearer picture, though — it’s that the ego doesn’t want to lose its power over us — so it will do everything it can to convince us that what we’re doing isn’t going to help.
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But first, here is your meditation for this week. This is a guided meditation to help you focus on your breath. It’s about 10 minutes long. Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Take two deep cleansing breaths and enjoy your meditation.

Here’s a link if the video doesn’t start when you click the “PLAY” button:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odb35U3nBJI

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Let’s face the facts — it’s the ego’s job to find fault with our teachers, their teachings and their methods. It’s the ego’s job to convince us that meditation is just a huge waste of time. Whenever we find ourselves analyzing, judging or picking things apart, we can be sure that it’s our ego doing its thing. It wants us to think of ourselves as separate from others. It wants us to think we’re different than someone else. It just doesn’t want us to know the Truth.

When we think about discrimination, there are actually two different sides to how we can discriminate. There’s the type of discrimination that comes from within us — from the essence of who we are — and that’s the discrimination that helps us to determine the false from the true — the Real from the Illusion. The discrimination of the ego is not able to see Real Truth because it has no way of seeing that Truth. It can only know when there is something we’re doing that is making it lose some of its power.

Only the essence of who we are — the Heart of us — has the ability to discern the Real Truth. All the ego can manage to do is to make it difficult for us to see the Heart’s message by distracting us with its endless mind-chatter.

“Don’t let the past steal your present.”

~~~Cherralea Morgen

One of the best ways for us to see and hear what the Heart of us is offering in the way of answers to who we truly are, is through the practice of meditation. This is, I feel, the best way to learn that there is something other than our egoic mind that has answers to the knowledge we seek. We need to stop listening to all the excuses that our ego-mind keeps giving as to why we can’t meditate. None of those reasons are valid — they’re only excuses. When we ignore these excuses that are in our mind, we can go into meditation and quiet the chatter for a while. When we’re meditating we can enjoy an experience that is completely different than the usual rambling of our thoughts.

Until we take this important step of starting a daily practice of meditation, we will be controlled by our ego. Until we take this step into meditation practice, we will have little awareness that there is something happening in the universe of us other than what we think. It’s time for the essence of us — the Heart of us — to take control. Step into the Heart within you and enjoy the experience of seeing the Now — this vastness of who we are — the Alive, Peaceful, Present Moment.

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

~~~Jan Glidewell

As a final word today, if you aren’t taking the “New Earth” course, I can highly recommend it. It’s completely free. All you really have to do is get the book, “A New Earth — Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle. You can access the course online at: http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webcast/ane_marketing.html. You’ll find everything you need there to get started — and to get caught up. If you happen to have iTunes on your computer, you can also access the course through the podcast link in iTunes. I am taking the course, and I’m on my second reading of the book. For me, this has been life-changing. Check it out. There are now several million people around the world who are taking part in this earthshaking event.

“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”

~~~~Cherokee Indian Proverb

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If you’re new to us here, be sure read the entire series about meditation. If you look on the upper left of the sidebar, you’ll see a list of the categories. Click the one called “Meditation” and you’ll be able to read the articles you missed. They start with the January 24, 2008 post.

Do include meditation in your daily life. If you’re just starting out, make it a 10 minute meditation. If you’ve been doing this for a while, try to do a minimum of 20 minutes. The longer you can maintain your focus on just your breath, the better.

“Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.”

~~~ Buddha

Namaste!

And, as I always say in closing — remember these words …

You are the most precious gift you can give yourself. Every day look in the mirror and say, “I’m available to more good than I have experienced, realized or imagined ever before in my life!” Do this every day while you look into your own eyes.

You are special — and you are loved. You are the greatest gift you can be.

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

~~~ Buddha

~~~ DBL-R

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