Friday, March 20, 2009, 08:55 PM - Share Your Stories
This week has been a great week for meditating. With the warmer weather, and sun shining into my home each morning gave me more inspiration to meditate. As well, with my son off from school for March break, I was able to do my standing meditation in the early morning before working and finish off the evening with an hour of sitting. So I had a great tone to start me off the day. I was listening to a great audio book all week, “ The Joy of Living, Unlocking the Secret & Science of Happiness ” by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. He brings together the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience and quantum physics in an easy to understand way, helping us to transform everyday human obstacles into opportunities. He recounts many of Buddha’s simple yet profound lessons. One of the key lessons that resonates with me is that, for many of us, we spend our whole lives looking for happiness outside ourselves, whether through our work, our shopping sprees, our homes, our holidays, all trying to build our confidence, stroke our ego, rid our dissatisfaction with life.
But the truth is, happiness is always within us, it is just covered up with our constant craving and grasping. Meditation helps us to uncover these heavy clouds of obscuration and provides us with a glimpse of true happiness. The daily experience of meditation builds our strength to reduce this grasping, show us the gaps between our monkey-mind. Mingyur Rinpoche said, "If diligently practiced, meditation can affect the "neuronal gossip"—his imaginative rendering of brain cell communication—that keeps us stuck in unhappy behaviors."
Reading about it and experiencing it are two different things. So I encourage you, to continue your daily meditation and you too will also clear the clouds, make decisions with more clarity and bring peace and harmony into your life. Spring is here, the buds are coming out, the birds are singing. I look forward to tomorrow’s meditation teachings and group practice. All are welcome.
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