Meditation Room Opens: 5 – 6 p.m. The 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month.
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
― Voltaire
Happy New Year to all! With the holidays behind us, along with most of our resolutions, we can finally move forward with hope for a year filled with peace, love and mindfulness. All of us, with great vigor and determination, decide on what we will do or change as one year slips into the next. It is no surprise to any of us that many of these aspirations end up being vacant lots in our minds.
I never make resolutions and really never have. I know myself better than that. I do know if I have the desire to pursue something new it will have to come from within me, somewhere deep down in my soul being and guided by Self.
Yoga is what I love – it is my “determined practice” and I could not imagine my life without it. Meditation practice, on the other hand has always been a struggle for me to keep committed to. Isn’t it odd that no matter how inept we are at somethig we still need to practice. Beethoven I am certain practiced as did Picasso or Cezanne. They practiced relentlessly and not always with the results they were reaching for, but each had a shining moment(s) at one time or another.
Meditation practice follows the same school of thought; practice makes perfect. Except in meditation we seek no perfection or thought. Time and time again I sit and time and time again I hope for one of those moments where I feel one with everything. Yes, this has occured, rarely, but it has. So daily, I bring myself to the studio altar, I light a candle and an incense, close my eyes, quiet (or try to) my mind and hope for the best. What is the best? The best is that moment and that is all I can hope for.
I continue to have a meditation practice and I am again honored to assist Jack Kornfield at Kripalu for the third year. His workshop take place Feb. 3rd – Feb. 8th. If you have a regular meditation practice I highly suggest attending and if you don’t have a regular meditation practice I highly recommend going. One never knows where the mind will go and as Jack Kornfield say, “My mind is like a bad neighborhood. I try not to go there alone.”