windthread

Last month Michelle told me about a 4 week class in Meditation from Ram Dass' Love Serve and Remember Foundation.  It was free or any donation.  A yearly offering from them for anyone, no matter their Point in their practice.  I decided to do it because i know he is no longer young,  like me,  he has so much History,  like me and he had that stroke about 20 years ago and he is Still Going,  like me (no stroke, but still going).  Every friday x 4 there would be teachings and a guided meditation.  There was nothing new,  but then with any meditation practice,  it's not New, it's ancient.   It only becomes "new" when it seeps in,  seeps deeper, 

I dreamed last night.  My usual kind of dreaming,  all BiZZy stuff of people and place but at the POINT,  suddenly….i was pulled into another Third Space between the dream world and somewhere else and it was the place that i identified as the place in the meditation when Ram Das was repeating a word,  4 times,  the word being either Here or Now and touching the chest in that space of the Heart .  I don't know which word it was…Here or Now…but it referenced 

THIS SINGLE MOMENT

as in his old kind of hip book…Be Here Now which kind of turned me OFF then,  but 

Now

it is working on me, in me.  BE in this present Moment.  This One Single Breath of a Moment.  Be Here Now.

 

and i woke in a different space.  Went to work and then to town for my once a week trip,  talked to many people about many things but i was caught still in that sense of how a dream wove in to Present awareness and through him,  his constant and ever loving repetition

Be Here Now.

and Lo

and Behold

an email from the Love Serve and Remember Foundation that is his,   that they are offering  9  hour long sessions about Joy while still acknowledging the truth of suffering,  how do you find balance with so much suffering in the world?  How do we work on ourselves to help the world.   With Ram Dass,  Roshi Joan Halifax,  and Krishna Das.  It begins on this Friday!

The place you go in these meditations is referred to as Loving Awareness.   I moved these scraps around and went and SAT maybe 20 minutes at a time or so,  moved them around, SAT.   Was a different place,  today….the sense of wanting to SIT was very strong.

So i will do this next segment that begins on Friday.  It is Being Given.  I will Receive. 

and i stood in between it all and looked at all the cloth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got lost,  uploading the pics.  But there are 12 baskets of sizeable scraps and 4 of very small ones.  

While i go through this work of meditation on loving awareness,  i want to go through these baskets.  I want to touch each piece.  If it all seems too dusty,  i want to wash them.  Hang them to dry.   There is a sense that the cloths i might want to work on will have to do with Loving Awareness and i don't know what that might mean?  Look like? at this point?  But i want to touch Each of these fragments.  Each of them.  Renew my relationship with them.

So, here we go.