Meditative Thoughts
Hello everybody,
A few thoughts post meditation from early today.
It is winter in S A. We have an electricity crisis here. With four to twelve hours of load shedding every day…
My day begins in the dark. I wake up between 3am and 4am most days. How this happens remains a mystery to me. I then arrange my yoga bolsters on my bed and proceed with my Pranayama (yoga breathing and meditation) for the next hour.
This centers me. I enjoy the silence of the morning air. As the thoughts swirl around my head, I engage with inexplicable sources and ideas. Often answers snap into my mind quite unexpectedly. I somehow manage to delve deep into my inner sanctum.
Yogic breathing creates physical as well as mental space. Space leads to freedom and freedom leads to truth. I often hear the first squark of a bird piercing the silence. From the mosque across the road the sound of Muslim Prayers wafting into my bedroom…. almost inaudible …which lends a beautiful mystery to the birth of the day.
Often surprises emerge from this silence and space. A feeling of wholeness and pure energy and my soul feels nourished. The world appears to me as a stage with all the chaos and the archetypes acting out their power, needs and greed or whatever else humanity creates out there.
Vigor and perception also result from this silence, which seems to come from another dimension. I do not want to sound cheesy but it is much like a feeling of light, a silvery light and silver stars playing out in my consciousness.
Early time in quiet gives me courage for the day. I function much more efficiently throughout the day as a result of a contemplative start…
Silence supplies me with many answers to many questions. Then a certain freedom of thought unfolds. I feel surprisingly centered and unafraid. Silence “Flosses” my mind and becomes my companion. Knowledge springs from silence, along with hope.
My head and heart are harmonious with this silence. My intellect and emotions are unified. Silence becomes a flashing jewel in my Heart…
Silence is like a glorious diamond, luminous, sattvic…. a lustrous energy for a bright day.