Meditation and Real Life
Tonight, Jeff and I taught a class on meditation. I usually don’t know what I am going to say but get some vague intuitions about what the students may need. About 10 to 20 people attend, and most of them have been coming to Jeff’s class for some time.
We take turns on the speaking order and tonight I taught first. I like to meditate right away because I come to the class from work and my being yearns for the light and stillness. I began to feel some things I wanted to talk about – career success and how to create an inner connection with the enlightened teacher (Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz).
I told them that I had read in one of the empowered books Rama recommended, that there is a practice called guru yoga. In this practice you picture the guru seated on a lotus in the area of your crown chakra. I have been doing this for many years and it has greatly strengthened my inner connection with Rama. I suggested that the students try the practice.
Then we meditated. Each meditation is different, but this one – to four songs from “Canyons of Light” by the band Zazen, was high yet burning, meaning some of the people in the room were encountering some rough thought patterns. My goal is to radiate light and stillness that I learned from meditating with Rama, and share it with those in the room – as he shared it with me and many, many others.
It was hard to open my eyes after the meditation. Then I spoke about career success and education – how it is a spiritual path that one traverses, constantly challenging yourself. That to make money – power – is an enabler of the spiritual path and enables one to help others. I thought that the students would ask questions, and one person did. He is a musician and needed to decide on whether or not to join a band that had asked him to become a member or remain independent. I asked which path made more money. Independence was the answer.
This brought to mind Rama’s other teachings. So practical – if you can’t decide, make a list on a yellow note pad of pros and cons. I talked about feeling a decision with your body. Send your body into each decision and note what it feels like. And I mentioned how Rama liked the I Ching, the Chinese book of Changes, which also serves as an Oracle. The musician had a friend in the class who said she would teach him to throw the coins that provide a teaching from the I Ching. All the book is filled with Taoist wisdom, there are no answers that lack wisdom.
I turned the class over to Jeff. I felt high and vibrant with Rama’s energy flowing through me. That energy is literally radiant with energy and happiness. Jeff also chose to start his teaching with a meditation session – the next four songs from “Canyons of Light.” Now everything shifted . My mind became powerfully still, without thought and soared like a seagull in the wind to the music. I shifted my awareness from focusing on the heart chakra to the third eye chakra, in the middle of the forehead.
I raised my awareness to the crown chakra and there, I saw Rama dancing. Rama was moving energy as he danced, gracefully gliding, shifting worlds with the mudras. It was a vivid as if I were in the room with him, as I had been in the Moscone Center in San Francisco when he danced on stage, and at SUNY Purchase in New York when he emanated the motions of eternity.
But I was sitting in this small meditation classroom, and here was Rama, in my crown chakra, dancing as vividly and moving energy as powerfully as he had in the physical. I could not feel my self at all, only Rama moving energy to help the students in the room. ‘How could this be as powerful and precise as when I was with Rama physically?’ I thought. Without verbalizing, I knew – Rama danced outside of time. Events in time are ephemeral, but empowerments outside of time can fold dimensions and be present at any time. When Rama danced (actually, all the time but it was easier to feel it then) his movements moved time and energy. The dance unfolding in my crown chakra is eternal, and as visceral as this computer keyboard. The life-shifting, healing motions of my teacher radiated out into the classroom.
After the meditation, I could still feel Rama dancing. I realized that all the feats of power that I had witnessed over the years were still fully present because they did not occur here, here meaning this time and space-bound dimension. At the time they happened, there was an “us and them” distance between me and what I witnessed. But as I continue to meditate, stop thought, and work on my inner connection with Rama, I step across the boundaries of time and space and there, outside of time and space, are eternal interactions with my teacher. Fully accessible for me and other students.
