You have to build a platform upon which you can land the experience of being alive so it doesn't make you shake,
So that you can really embrace it.
Now that's honestly the real and most important value of meditation and it's important that we learn to meditate in such a way that we build a platform first upon which we open up to the extraordinary in life.
And we're still almost certainly going to have to shed some of the excess so there's less there.
So there's space to actually really enjoy the things that are meaningful to us and really appreciate the things that are important because it's so easy to fill our lives up with the things that we think are important and have them all so crowded out that they pass us by without us being enriched.
So those steps that we take to reclaim consciousness for ourselves.
To wake up,
To clear the dust from our eyes and the fog from our hearts so we can feel alive completely again.
It takes intelligence and discernment.
It takes an exercise in reflecting upon what's actually important and it takes conviction so that we can actually maneuver some energy around the things that are important and honor them.
And a willingness to let go the things that aren't,
That have crowded us out.
You know those simple choices around those things will,
If I'm honest,
Enrich your life more quickly than spending an hour a day on the meditation cushion and not making changes in your life.
So as insight matures in you,
As you start to see more clearly,
A,
What you're a part of,
B,
What's going on,
C,
What's really important.
Don't see it and not respond to it.
Because at the end of the day it's like lighting a pilot light that should gradually warm this inner furnace of passion to be alive completely.
To really experience what you're a part of.
And if you recognize where that lies and you recognize it's your deepest longing and you don't respond to it then you will be living in a quiet state of despair.
Somewhere inside all of us is a deep knowledge knowing that something's got to change.
When we come to that knowing and don't change we're really stuck.
The most important thing of all is willingness to change.
And get some conviction behind it.
Make changes in your life that you are prompted,
Feeling prompted to make.
And I'll bet there's not one person out there one of you who's thinking you need to make your life more complicated than it already is.
I bet almost every single one of you if you're honest would think,
Gosh wouldn't it be great if my life was a little simpler.
And I dare say this planet would benefit tremendously if we all made our lives a little bit simpler and created some space to deeply enjoy what we're doing find meaning and purpose in it.
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