We
all love our own melodramas. We each have one. Everybody thinks they're
somebody doing something, or somebody thinking something, or somebody
wanting something: "I've gotta have sex tonight
or I'll die." "I'm so lonely!" "I can't meditate!" "I'm so high!" We
all get so involved in our melodramas, so busy thinking we're the
actors, so busy thinking we're doing it all - and it's really all just
this lawful stuff running off. How funny!
But in order to see that, in order to begin to appreciate the lawfulness of the unfolding, we need to develop a little perspective. It can be a nice meditation to take a seed, and put it in a bit of earth. Put it on a kitchen window sill, and watch it grow into a plant, into a flower. Just observe it everyday. Use that as your daily meditation exercise; see the way the whole process unfolds.
But in order to see that, in order to begin to appreciate the lawfulness of the unfolding, we need to develop a little perspective. It can be a nice meditation to take a seed, and put it in a bit of earth. Put it on a kitchen window sill, and watch it grow into a plant, into a flower. Just observe it everyday. Use that as your daily meditation exercise; see the way the whole process unfolds.
- Ram Dass -
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