Awakening Being Module 5

Alan Klima

All Wanting Dissolves into Serving The Contentment that is Already Here

This is a real shift, an opening into the Heart of Awakening Being

We may come to meditation practice with a desire based in the story of our life and the orientation of being a person dealing with life and its difficulties. And this may continue in the sense of living a spiritual life, with spiritual goals and obstacles and difficulties and sufferings.

And there is nothing wrong with that, and there is no need to make that go away or to avoid dipping into those motivations. It's certainly not good to pretend they are not there. But, we don't have to always serve them.

That is a shift that makes all the difference in Awakening Being

It's this shift that we are clarifying with these practices of awakening being. We're practicing getting clear that we absolutely have the ability to forget our whole life situation and the person, who tends to struggle to get this and that. We absolutely have the ability to devote ourself to the peace, quiet and stillness within. It just takes some pointing to this fact.

Forget yourself, Honor the Peace That Is You

Now of course remember the important thing that Awakening Being Meditation Practices are "just for now." They are not about how you are "supposed" to be all the time. They aren't instructions on how to live life, or solutions to particular problems. All those interests may require different kinds of energies at times. The Self will provide those, no worries

At this turn we are practicing a kind of refraining from trying to attain something, get something, get things right and perfect, especially get the "right" spiritual result. The impulse and doubts about that are serving the person, who wants to get something. They are fine to get started in meditation, and everyone has that kind of interest. But here we can practice another kind of interest.

We can recognize whatever sliver of inherent peace and contentment is already here, not wanting it to be better or bigger or righter, but honoring it.

We can rest attention in the vibration of contentment that is already here-- however faint or great.

Then, even active dynamic actions we take in meditation, like inner yoga postures of attitude or breathing in a certain way, anything at all can be done in the service of that which is already here. It's switching the allegiance. This can be seen and it can be practiced.

Finally, the way to "seal the deal" here is to return in brief moments of everyday life to see if this practice hasn't shifted things in a good way that even the person can appreciate!

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