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Catholic Upbringing
I was raised Roman Catholic. I was taught to pray to God, to Jesus, to Virgin Mary. One night when I was having a sleepover at my Granna’s, I pretended to be asleep, and from my bed, I watched my Granna kneel down beside her bed and pray, the traditional way. The palms of her hands in prayer beside her heart, her head bent down in reverence. I can’t recall hearing what she murmured to God that night, perhaps her whispers were too muffled or my memory has faded. I prayed every day, usually at bed but often during the day. I lived on a farm, so I found areas…
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On the court
Dearest Mooji I remember in satsang you really don’t want to deal with people talking from ‘personhood’. If anyone is talking, you want them talking from their authentic self, beyond the ego. What happens then, as I noticed, there is nothing to say as no problems exist from one grounded in their own awareness as awareness itself. So I am going to write this post keeping You in mind, as if I am standing in front of you in satsang. Although I would never speak of this in satsang as it is beyond trivial but I am not in satsang today and so I shall begin… I play tennis. I love…
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RAIN
Trivial event provoking a rather significant opportunity for growth Today it is raining, so a coincidence that RAIN shone some light, pardon the irony, on my heavy heart, (I can be slightly melodramatic and theatrical, excuse me). I haven’t been doing my regular practice of meditation and analytical enquiry into the Self the past few days. This regular practice solidifies my knowing and even though, I don’t stop being ‘me’, I will have the experience of not being my authentic Self and so might my closest and dearest. It came to a head when my husband said to me, ‘let’s just be positive today’ in a rather stern voice after I…
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Making a pot of tea
A great analogy came to me today. I realize it probably won’t be an original thought but it really was a lightbulb moment and I observed how excited my mind became. Then my mind tried to hold on to it and remember it. So I let it go, sort of. So here it is, ready? First of all its sort of a scientific experiment. These are the ingredients you need; A clear glass measuring cup of boiling hot water – this symbolizes Infinite pure awareness (in fact if we didn’t need to contain the boiling hot water, it would be better if it didn’t have a container at all so…