But Wait, There's More

Are you totally engaged in your practice? Do you believe its possible to be enlightened? How can you be aligned with your soul and connect with the Ultimate Energy Source?

Meditation can be the most important way to improve your life. In this talk, we focus and engage on our inner self to connect with the Light and Love within.

Transcript

Aloha,

I'm Reverend Cindy Palas and today I'm going to talk about meditation and focusing.

I was inspired to give this talk because I do one of these apps and a commercial comes on before you can get to the real app.

And this commercial called Meditate came on.

It's about 30 seconds long.

It has a little ball.

It says,

Focus on this ball.

And as you focus on the ball,

It goes around in different circles and patterns and it gets bigger and smaller and smaller.

And it goes on for about,

I don't know,

10,

15 seconds.

And at the end of that 15 seconds,

It says,

Congratulations,

You've just learned how to meditate.

I just was laughing so hard.

I'm going,

Now I know there's thousands of kinds of meditation and thousands of different teachers,

But to say that you have meditated when you watched your app on your phone for 15 seconds is a big simplification.

I've been meditating for over 50 years.

I started when I was 14 years old and meditated every day since.

So that's a long,

Long time.

And there's a relationship that develops in meditation.

And I have to say in the beginning stages,

You're just swept off your feet.

I was.

Everyone is different.

But I was just in love with meditation.

I wanted to read everything and I was in the bliss stage.

And it's very much like a love relationship.

You know how in the first six months or a little longer,

You're just completely obsessed and in love.

And then you start to get into the other parts of it.

And over the years,

I got through many,

Many stages.

And of course,

I had this amazing,

Some people consider an ultimate experience of enlightenment at a very young age at 15.

And then my whole perspective changed and I developed a whole new way of looking at life.

But it's not just about watching Paul going in a little circle on your phone for 15 or 16 seconds.

Now there is this important aspect to meditation,

Which is focus.

And every teacher will tell you to focus.

In fact,

I had a musical instrument,

Actually it was a teacher in high school that used to say the word focus.

He was a conductor.

And he'd say focus and I still remember that.

And it was a way of getting everyone to just be one with that focusing.

And when you do meditate,

You do focus.

And you can focus on a candle flame.

You can close your eyes and you can focus on your inner eye,

Your heart,

Your mind.

You can focus on a voice that's talking to you.

You can just focus enough to get your mind to be still.

Many people focus on their breath,

Breathing in and breathing out.

And that lets you be aware of your breath because your breath reflects your state of mind.

And the breathing practice of meditation is a very good one because your breath does sweep your mind.

And you can change your mind by your breath.

So focusing on breath,

Your inner eye.

And some people use mantras.

Some people just use a single word.

That's a very good thing.

But you can do that and still not be engaged.

So this is another part of what I'd like to talk about.

I see many people almost being on a lower level of subconscious sleep when they meditate and that is maybe okay if you just want to relax.

That's very good for that.

But to really be engaged is to be aware of a presence.

It's to totally be able to be open 100%.

Now there's many things that happen past the beginning of stages of just breathing and being focused.

And then developing this relationship with your soul,

Your higher self,

You begin to understand that in this time of meditation you have a communion and a communication and an alignment with your body,

Mind and soul.

Just as in yoga,

You're supposed to achieve a union with God.

And some people even have brought that down to just being a union with your higher self.

But that's backing off that engagement of 100%.

And this can be a tricky thing because you think,

Well,

I'm just going to do my meditation and I'll just do it for five minutes or 10 minutes or 30 seconds.

And that's good.

That's better than nothing.

But it isn't there bringing you to that state that is possible to give you all that you really can get in meditation.

And that comes when you do develop a love relationship with your higher self,

With God,

And you're able to meditate and be in light and be enlightened.

So you have to ask yourself,

Are you giving yourself 100% to that light,

To your highest self,

To God,

When you meditate?

And what would happen if you did?

Is there something blocking that?

Is there some reason you're not giving yourself?

Are you in a hurry?

Are you thinking about other things you have to do?

Because we need to get past those blocks to be able to get to that stage where you really are 100% there with the presence in meditation.

This came to me,

I write every day after I meditate.

So I have thousands of things I've written.

But this one came to me and I wrote this down,

I have it,

I think in a couple of my books.

And it says,

If I were to speak,

I would have the voice of your heart to light the words and the company of a band of angels to carry the sound of light.

For their radiance can bring the awakening of joy.

To let the heart hear the words of truth.

Now it goes on,

But I'd like you to kind of go into a state of meditation while I read some of this and give yourself 100% to that inner self,

To that soul that you are.

Breathe in.

Listen,

Listen to that voice of your heart.

Breathe in that voice of your heart.

Breathe in that light.

What would that light sound like if you were right here in the brilliance of your highest light,

Brightest light,

Merging with the soul of God and God's light?

Can you carry that sound of light?

Can you be in that radiance right now?

Listen to that part of you that can completely be open to receive that word,

That light,

That truth,

That place where there is no sorrow or darkness,

That there's only the greatest love that is God's love right there,

Right now,

Here in you.

That great beauty,

That amazing fulfillment of the union of ultimate love with the joining of the source of all energy,

With your self and with creation here on earth.

Allow yourself a minute to just be in that place that you are joining with the source.

Breathe it in,

Breathe it out.

Let it fill every single cell of your being.

Let it bring you alignment.

Let it bring you truth.

Let it bring you purpose.

Right now,

Hold the light of the one who knows the power and the beauty of the heart of love right there in you.

That eternal torch of light,

That place inside you that is at peace with God,

That place of yourself that is born of that light and love,

Far greater than the mind can comprehend and only when you go past the mind can you merge and become enlightened.

When you understand that there is a door that you can enter and open to be in that place to receive enlightenment.

How would you know that enlightenment right now?

How much enlightenment can you be in right now?

Engage with that light.

Engage with that enlightenment.

Give yourself 100% right now to that energy of light.

Give yourself right now 100% the love that is the love of the Creator,

The creation of all being,

The source of all love and be the love of all loves and be the light of all lights.

Understand your purpose and the joy of your purpose and being.

Understand that this is what you can achieve in meditation and this can change you and transform you.

It can be with you.

It can give you everything you need.

Remember your heritage and remember there is this unlimited ability to connect with this light and this love,

Your soul and eternity in meditation.

Do not limit yourself.

Do not hold back.

There is so much more than we allow ourselves to understand and believe and I just want to encourage you to always engage in that possibility of enlightenment in this very moment and I want to encourage you to realize that you can be awakened and you can change your life and you can see life from a different perspective and you can really help others by doing this.

Now breathe that in and allow yourself to absorb it,

To believe it,

To become it and if there's anything that comes to your mind,

Take a moment after you come out of meditation and write it down.

See if there's a message that comes.

See if you can understand that you are part of this infinite light and love.

Don't ever limit or not believe that you can achieve enlightenment.

That is always there in so many ways and stages but it is always there.

I thank you and I send my blessings from my heart and soul and may that light and love be with you always.

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