Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 11, 2021 💌

 

 

"We’re all distracted by phenomena, everything that’s going on all the time.  

Mindfulness is one of the practices for slowing down our lives, for finding a way inside, for concentrating self-awareness. It can help us to quiet down and find our way into who we are.    

Finding our true self is a lifelong search. It’s not called practice for nothing. You actually have to tread on the path to get somewhere. Not that there’s anywhere to go, it’s just about becoming more here, being more present in this moment.    

Once we begin to explore our own psyche and mind and heart, we begin to appreciate that everybody else is in the same situation. We’re not so different. Each of us is an individual awareness living with our particular karma or family situation or what we do, our cultural milieu. Awareness itself is something that we all share. It’s what makes us human and divine.    

When you take away the content or the objects of awareness, thinking about the weather or what you’re going to do today, and just stay with the awareness, awareness is the same. That sense of interconnectedness happens as a corollary to mindfulness practice or any kind of meditation practice because awareness is a universal experience.    

Interconnected consciousness is real. How we come to that experience happens through many different avenues for different people. When we realize our consciousness exists beyond our mind and senses, then we can go about finding our true nature as the Zen Buddhists would put it.    

Different traditions call the reality of consciousness so many different things, from soul to pure mind, Buddha mind, but once we accept that reality, it makes sense to embark on a practice that includes developing awareness. That is the first step, having a new perspective outside the constant I, me, mine of the ego. Once there is a movement beyond that very self-centered point in time and space, then there is opportunity for real change." 

 - Ram Dass -

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