A simple life is what?
A happy life.
Not guaranteed, but it can help.
We can minimise our possessions, our expenditure, our email, our computer files, our work life, social life, so many things. All will make some difference. All will help in some small way.
But what about our inner life? How can we minimise there? How can we simplify our practice?
Simple meditation.
This simple but profoundly beneficial meditation, from my Master, Sri Mooji, is a beautiful way to begin. Try this for a week. Drop your mantra, drop your prayer, drop all of that, and simply sit with your sense of presence, of I Am.
Here it is, in Sri Mooji’s own words. If you’d like to listen to it, there’s a link at the end.
“I want to introduce a way, a simple way, that every human being, can again, begin to feel their true being. This is possible.
I am here, to invite people into this living discovery, so that they can experience what they have learnt about, so that they can experience it directly inside their own self.
The human being can begin, by finding that simple sense of existence, the feeling, I, or I Am, is a great beginning.
Just feel that natural sense of existence inside ourself, and stay only with that natural sense of being. That which is inside you, which is not making an effort.
Just I Am. Just you are. Stay with this sensation, and don't connect up with any other thought, or any memory, any belief, any intention, any desire.
They will come. But, you will be aware of them, don't go and play with them.
Don't do anything. Don't think oh yes, should I be saying a mantra, or be praying. Don't pray, don't make any mantra, don't try to do or to get anywhere.
Maybe in the beginning, you may feel a lot of thoughts, a lot of noise in the mind. It's okay. It doesn't mean anything is wrong. Let the noise be there, but you stay only in the presence. Stay only with your presence.
In a short while, that sense of presence will become more strong, and your thoughts, questions, all of these things, will move further away from you. And you will feel the sense of just presence. You won't be able to describe it. But it will feel like peace, and a natural feeling of allrightness. Maybe joy even. There will be space inside you. Stay with it.
After 7 or 10 minutes, you may open your eyes, take a nice breath, and go about your life. Do this.
In the evening, if you can, you can do the same thing again, 7 or 10 minutes. Make a little habit of it.
It's not a new religion, it's not a new belief, it is a simple, simple meditation.
If everyone in the world (I'm not expecting, or even hoping). But if all the people, or half the people, or a quarter of the people, or even a hundredth of the people in this world do this, already, great beauty would come in this world.”
Remember, try this simple practice, make a little habit of it, repeating it for 7 to 10 minutes morning and evening, for the next 7 days. If you don’t feel the difference, then drop it if you must, but if you do, why not enjoy this simple way to open space in your being, and rest as awareness.
This is peace.
“Gratitude for trees, birds, the breeze, tea, rest, simple things.
— Bhagavati”
Keep it simple.
Thank you for reading,
love,
Bhagavati
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