Let's close our eyes.
Let's close our eyes.
Meditation is like watching a sunset.
In order to truly enjoy this experience,
We need to see it as if we are seeing it for the first time.
You never say,
I've been watching sunsets all my life.
You drop whatever you know about previous sunsets and soak in the one that is happening right now.
It might resemble something that you might have seen in the past,
But that's not the point.
The point is not to compare.
The point is to experience it fully.
To experience the beauty.
Meditation never emphasizes beauty.
Beauty stands alone.
Just like that.
Today's meditation is the only meditation that we are going to experience for now.
It may touch your heart,
It may not.
And that's okay.
Leaving something as it is,
Is very difficult for us.
Because somehow we have been conditioned to label and categorize things.
What's the point of doing something if we are not getting something out of it?
All matters of heart can be categorized as useless by the mind.
There is no real point when we follow our heart most of the times.
When you decided to sit down for this session today,
You didn't know what the meditation would be on.
What will be spoken?
Will I like it or not?
Will it be useful or not?
But your heart knew.
It compelled you to be here.
This reminds me of a small incident that happened with me in one of the farmer's markets last year.
I was parked in the parking lot.
It was Saturday or Sunday morning and I had taken some of my friends to show around in Cincinnati.
While in the farmer's market,
My wife was carrying a bag and there was no real necessity to put that bag in the car.
But I was compelled.
So I took the bag,
I went to my car and I found a lady there waiting for me because somehow she had bumped into my car and she wanted to check in before she left.
I didn't know why I had to go to the parking lot,
But I was open.
Not knowing belongs to the mind.
Certainty belongs to the heart.
These kind of serendipities are very common once we unleash our actions from the tyranny of reasons and purpose and points.
You know at the end of the day,
We want to categorize it as was it a good day or a hard day or a bad day.
We want to take all our experience,
The ones that we remember and the ones that we don't and put it in a straitjacket of a world,
Of a category,
Of a label.
Is it necessary?
Even if you have had a tough day,
What value do we get by categorizing it as a tough day?
Other than some acknowledgement that it was a tough day.
You can ask yourself if this acknowledgement belongs to the mind or the heart.
The mind is brittle.
The heart is strong.
Tough days don't matter to the heart.
The heart is like the gold.
The more it burns in the fire,
The more it shines.
I guess putting things in the category or a label.
Makes it feel real.
If it is good and we label it as good.
We feel that it's good.
It's like a reassuring mechanism.
The flip side of this,
However,
The category,
The label becomes a reality.
The experience loses its reality.
The category becomes the real thing.
Take a simple example.
If we are feeling not so 100% in our body and we don't know what it is,
We will pour in a lot of energy in trying to find out the category to which this uneasiness belongs.
We're more interested in labeling than in solving what's happening.
And because we solve everything with our minds,
We need a label.
Is it a migraine?
Then this is the solution.
Is it this?
Then this is the solution.
But sometimes your heart knows you just need to rest.
I don't mean to demonize.
I don't mean to demonize mind.
It has its own place.
But when it comes to matter of experience,
And by experience I mean experiencing things,
Inviting beauty,
Intelligence,
Compassion,
Kindness,
Softness in our lives,
Listening to heart is more important.
The mind can only divide.
Only the heart unites.
Only the heart can be certain in times of uncertainty where the mind will be rattled.
Those of us who are in tune with our heart can recognize this very easily.
Not all questions need answers.
Not all actions need reasons.
Not all experiences need categories or labels.
Thank you.
