Author: ratnadyer

Let us not seek the formless Absolute so vehemently that we miss the thousand doorways to commune with it all around us in relative form.

We might meditate for hours and perhaps get really good at it, lift off into all sorts of altered states of consciousness.. and yet truth is, we always come back to ordinary everyday reality.

Meditation is important yes. It helps us cultivate commitment, awareness, insight, resilience, stability, focus, stillness etc. However if it does not then translate and integrate into our way of being in the world, our relationships, our lived connected, embodied experience, then it is limited. And perhaps even becomes just another way of escaping, bypassing and trying to lift off and out all together.

Meditate AND be here now. Be alive. Taste your food. Feel your body breathe, move, have emotions, enjoy the colours the smells, the birds, the human heart, relationships and vulnerability, the capacity to love and express and listen.

These are where the rubber hits the road, the ways into recognising timelessness and oneness.

A large part of our experience is created through how we filter things within our mind, our perception.

Five people can have the same experience at the same time, and yet each will give you a different description or interpretation.
It’s not the thing that was different, but the minds of the people.

When we suffer, we are feeding ourselves a narrative that makes something personal and creates separation.

Truth and reality exist before, during and after, without us having any thought/s about it.

Become aware of what you are telling yourself that generates an often familiar feeling of suffering.

Look deeply. Investigate.. are these thoughts absolutely 100% true? Help yourself find the crack in their lie.

It’s in our struggle against things that our suffering is born. When we are in a conscious surrendering; allowing and accepting of what is arising within us in the present moment, we can find peace.

We can find the part of us that is ok, when we aren’t ok; when we are angry, upset or even despairing.

There is always loving presence holding all of it.

Don’t use the notion of self love as a rationalisation for emotional dumping on others.
If it’s not loving to them, it’s also not healing for us.

When we are truly working with healing within our emotional experience this helps us to be able to take care of others and ourselves at the same time.

When someone says they have no fear/s, I see a red flag.

Yes it is important to find a balance and an awareness around how much we entertain our fears or project scary imaginings into the future.. however it is also unhealthy to deny our fear or to minimise, dismiss or ignore it.

If we want to heal anything, we first have to allow it. We have to find our way within it. We have to look into the nature of it within ourselves.

We learn to swim by being in the water. Through direct experience. We don’t make much progress by unconsciously trying to control our fear through thinking…by creating a sense of security or control by thinking we know the truth, we know how something is. This becomes dogma.

Let’s be real, no one ultimately knows 100% how anything is.
Uncertainty and flux is the nature of human life.

Do the inner work. It’s the best investment you can ever make.

Real self care is an act of service.

My heart goes out to those in Ukraine. May our human collective consciousness wake up to the amount of insanity we need to address!!!

May we that are blessed with a safe country focus on what we have with gratitude. Endeavour not to take our countless blessings for granted. Recognise that we are gifted everyday, to wake up and be able to live the life we do. And may we each do our inner work in order to fully show up with the level of conscious compassion and responsibility our humanity needs.

Bless.

Endeavour to let go of fixed views and thinking you know how anything ultimately is.
The truth is, nobody knows.
It’s in recognising that we don’t know, that we can find release and surrender.

When we are willing to stop, face into and be with the experience of uncertainty, with fear or lostness, without scrambling too quickly to find a box to put it in and an answer we can label it with.. Only then do we begin to open to the mystery and the deeper dimension of truth in life. This is where true freedom lies.

Show interest, be human, be kind, be genuine. It’s amazing the conversations and connections and blessings you might have in moving through life this way.

We are all human.
There is more that connects us than separates us.
Be a light and a moment of goodness in the meetings you have.
There is so much power in kind eyes and listening ears.