Hari Om
Monday is AUM-day; in search of meditation
Sit in aasana and practice a few minutes of praanayaama. Still the mind. Pick up the book you used for last week's meditation.
Open to the page upon which you wrote. Look at it broadly at first. See the page as a whole and words indistinct, simply see the shapes they make upon the page. It is likely to look ragged. Abstract. Observe this for a while and note your own descriptions for what you see.
Now refocus on the words on the page, but again only as a whole. Scan them up and down the page for a moment or two. Take note that as you scan, despite trying to be even about it, that there are some words - may be only two or three, or perhaps as many as a dozen - which the eye keeps 'sticking' to.
Narrow down your focus to these words now. Taking up the pen again, circle the words. Then turn to a blank page and write only these words down. In any order, on any part of the page.
Remember, this is a way to access the inner guru. The words, as random as they may appear just now, will hold meaning for you. Do not seem to make a sentence or even to link them in any way. There may be one, but often there is not. At least not in any obvious sense. As you progress through the year now, keep this page of words in front of you in meditation and select one at a time to work with. Take your time. There is no rush. Sit with one word at a time and let it linger in the forefront of your mind as you clear yourself of all other thoughts. Let the word become the only life, let it become life. Receive all that it gives you. As much as you can empty yourself of your own thoughts, the word under scrutiny will fill with other thoughts. Pay attention to these. Write them down if you wish to expand on the process.
This is a way to your inner guru. Deep listening. Paying attention. Growing. It has no end, but it must be begun.
