MUSINGS ON A MORNING IN PISAC PERU

When we begin to awaken to the living being that is every cell of this magical Mandala that is our physical form, and the same time recognising the transient illusionary nature of this self-same vehicle. Riding the waves of this paradox enables healing and awakening on a grand scale. Seeing the body as the vehicle toward our awakening while feeling the lightness and emptiness of the form that is this body.

In the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) tradition, we visualise the body as empty inside, a body of light, not a body of flesh and blood, bones and organs. This visualisation allows a spaciousness to enter the awareness of being. Then we become workable. Less dense, more flowing.

At the same time connecting with the stillness and silence that is always present. Present behind every thought, word and deed. The silence we seek when entering a forest, a wood, the desert. The stillness after a storm, the stillness that entices awareness on a quiet still day in summer. A stillness that highlights colour, warmth, wind on our face. This omnipresent stillness and silence exists within our very own bodies. It is the stillness from where movement comes, the silence where speech arises from.

If we can anchor ourselves in the awareness of this stillness and silence, all action, all words, all thoughts will have their origin in this space.

We can become free of ourselves! Of our habitual, thoughtless orations, that can often become harmful, harmful not to just others, but also to ourselves.

Anchoring in stillness, the stillness that exists with or without your presence. Anchoring in silence, the silence that exists with or without your presence. Anchoring in spaciousness, we become spacious. Spacious in thought, in word and in action.

This stillness and spaciousness exists within our very own body.

This is the new paradigm toward wellbeing and wholeness. Wholeness being the recognition of ourselves as the multi-dimensional beings that we are. We are so much more than flesh and blood and bones. We are consciousness itself animated in form. Here to empty out old traces of karmic imprints that will allow passage to illumination. To conscious awareness of Being.

This is the journey we are on. This awakening to the presence that embodies us, that heals us and that guides us on the next phase of this incredible journey that is our life.

This precious human birth. Awakening to the truth of this, this precious human birth, arises within a certain gratitude for the experience itself. Whatever the cause, the reason, the outcome, we cannot but be awed with the very experience of living and experiencing.

Contemplating dying, dropping this body, each moment can become a magical exploration. This inevitable journey, this letting go of form, can arise in us an urgency to be fully present in each moment. Present to the wonders of nature, of each other, of children, of the sun and the moon and the stars. The earth and her magic, the elements of earth, air, fire, water and space. A new born baby. Of Love.

Become available to the ever-present energy of Love in your life.

We can become so jaded, instead of becoming so available and present to the energetic movement of each precious moment. To the “impossibility” of what we are living!

There is no sky above us, only space, infinite space.