Hello,
This is davidji and welcome to today's meditation.
Let's find a comfortable place to sit or lie down.
Get as comfortable as possible,
Feather your nest.
Ever so gently allow your eyelids to float closed.
And together let's take a long,
Slow,
Deep breath in.
And ever so gently let that go.
Let's explore saying yes to life.
Let's explore opening our heart,
Opening our mind to new directions,
New perspectives,
New relationships,
New visions,
New dreams.
And it all begins by saying yes.
The Indian sage Osho said the mind is not an adventurer,
It is very cautious.
It takes every step with thinking and calculation until it is certain there is no risk.
The mind wants to stay the way it is.
All of our thinking is about staying the way we are.
So how do we protect ourselves from change?
Until it has seen others take the risk and there has been no real danger,
Our mind will not change.
Listening to the mind is a very disturbing phenomenon of growth.
When everything is going good,
The mind comes out and says,
Watch out,
Because you listen to the mind's fear and you stop living.
The mind would keep you always the same,
Never taking risks.
Newness is an enemy to the mind.
Sameness is its friend.
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
A person may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But a person cannot learn and cannot feel and cannot grow or love.
Chained by certitudes,
You are only a slave.
Only a person who takes risks is free.
The ancient Sanskrit word for freedom,
For liberation,
Is moksha.
Moksha.
Moksha.
So right now,
Let's reflect for a few moments.
Have you held back laughter for fear of appearing like a fool?
Have you held back tears so you would not appear sentimental?
Have you held back from reaching out at a fear of involvement?
Have you held back your feelings so you would not be rejected?
Have you held your dreams inside rather than voicing them at a fear of ridicule?
Have you held back love giving or receiving for fear of not being loved in return?
Let's just sit with these questions for a few moments and allow your breath to guide you into your heart,
To answer where you've said no,
Where now you can say yes.
Let's go there now.
And let's take it a little deeper.
We'll use the mantra,
Yam moksha nama.
Yam moksha nama.
Yam is the vibration of the heart chakra,
The anahata chakra.
When we repeat yam over and over,
It opens our heart.
It opens all constrictions in the anahata chakra.
It allows us to have more laughter,
More peace,
More compassion,
More forgiveness,
More lightness of being.
Yam moksha nama.
As you repeat the mantra,
It may change.
It may get faster or slower,
Louder or fainter,
Even jumbled or distorted.
However it changes,
Don't resist it.
Follow it.
Go there.
But at a certain point,
You'll realize,
I'm not repeating the mantra.
And ever so gently,
Drift back to yam moksha nama.
Repeat the mantra silently over and over.
And you will drift away to thoughts or sounds or physical sensations.
That's perfect.
As soon as you realize you've drifted away,
Ever so gently,
Drift back to the mantra.
I'll watch the time.
And when you hear me ring the chime,
Just sit gently with your eyes closed.
So let's begin.
Yam moksha nama.
Sit gently with your eyes closed.
And let the stillness and silence settle in.
And now let's take a long,
Slow,
Deep breath in together.
And ever so gently let that go.
Let's do that one more time.
Long,
Slow,
Deep breath in.
And ever so gently release it.
And let's seal this saying yes.
Let's seal this opening.
Let's seal this oneness by chanting om,
The hymn of the universe.
Just one time together.
Take a long,
Slow,
Deep breath in.
And when it feels comfortable,
You can slowly open your eyes.
Through these short five minutes of opening our heart and opening our being to yes,
You've created a small shift in how you show up.
When you find yourself about to say no or shut down or respond with a conditioned reaction,
Remind yourself,
Yam moksha nama.
And recognize that the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
From the sweet spot of the universe,
This is David G.
Wishing you a day of yeses,
A week of yeses,
And a lifetime of saying yes.
I'll see you in the gap.
Namaste.
