What really matters is not just the practice of sitting but far more the state of mind you find yourself in after meditation. It is this calm and centered state of mind you should prolong through everything you do. I like the Zen story in which the disciple asked his master:
“Master, how do you put enlightenment into action? How do you practice it in everyday life?”
“By eating and by sleeping,” replied the master.
“But Master, everybody sleeps and everybody eats.”
“But not everybody eats when they eat, and not everybody sleeps when they sleep.”
From this comes the famous Zen saying, “When I eat, I eat; when I sleep, I sleep.”
To eat when you eat and sleep when you sleep means to be completely present in all your actions, with none of the distractions of ego to stop you from being there. This is integration.
– Sogyal Rinpoche
* photo; i caught this image of Ananda, Temple Cat Being Charlie, and Dewa playing in the pranically loaded Evening Brahmamuhurti last evening on our front lawn. Both Dewa and Charlie are Upa Guru’s for Ananda and i in the realm of the Teaching above; when Charlie or Dewa eat; they eat. When they sleep, they sleep. No clutter from emotional baggage; no judgments interlaced with their eating; they are absorbed in the m(om)ent…as should we. See WF Nutritional Principle; Rasas Eating Principle to revisit this important active meditation conditioner.
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