We are lucky. There is inspiration everywhere… Even on sauce packets! We just need to be aware.
I really fell in love with this image and message, when I came upon it in Instagram. It really resonated with me. If we can see past the body, and see into each other’s soul, we can see how truly connected we are to each other. And maybe… this will bring more understanding and compassion with each other, because we are the same… we come from love.
Day 18 – Sex, Love and Meditation
Thought for the day: I live life through my mind, body and soul.
Daily Quote:
“Whenever you understand that you have missed life, the first principle to be brought back is innocence. Drop your knowledge, forget your scriptures, forget your religions, your theologies, your philosophies. Be born again, become innocent — and it is in your hands.” ~Osho
Today’s message from Osho is about sex and love.
I have been learning a lot about love and compassion through my personal and Spiritual path, and I have changed a whole lot, especially in the last year. However, as a presently unattached, single woman, I would have to wait to use what I have learned. 😁
Instead, I will write what I hope to do and how I hope to act, hopefully most of the time, if not all the time, when I am in a situation where love and sex coincide, while honoring my Spirit and my Spiritual path.
I believe in honoring, respecting, and accepting the other person, for who he truly is, because that is how I would like to be treated. To honor, respect, and accept the other person is to honor their Spirit.
I hope to love him unconditionally with gratefulness and compassion. We all have fears and pain we carry and/or we are still working through, and love and compassion will promote healing and more openness to share love. Gratefulness will lead to appreciation for the other person and what he shares with me and to the relationship.
I’m human too, 😁, so I hope the physical aspect will be a complete experience of passion, sharing, playfulness, and hopefully, love.
Excerpt from the course
“Man has three layers: the body, the mind and the soul. So whatsoever you do, you can do in three ways. Either it can be just from the body, or it can be from the mind, or it can be from the soul. Whatsoever you do, any act of yours, can have three qualities. Sex is love through the body; romantic love is sex through the mind; compassion is through the soul. But the energy is the same. Moving in a deeper way, its quality changes, but the energy is the same. Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation.
Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness. Not only do you understand and respect the other person, but you have come to your deepest core of being. Seeing your own deepest core, you have become capable of seeing the deepest core in the other also. Now the other does not exist as a body or a mind; the other exists as a soul. And souls are not separate. Your soul and my soul are one..”
(Disclaimer: All images and meditations are from Osho’s 21-day meditation series by Mentors Channel.)
Related Links:
Osho: A Course In Meditation, 21 Day Workout For Your Consciousness (visit to register, it’s free).
Older posts regarding my meditation journey:
Day 1: Strength Through Devotion
Day 2: Meditations on Love and Relationship
Day 3: Meditations On Anger
Day 4: The Art of Living in Balance
Day 5: Love and Meditation go Hand in Hand
Day 6: Living Dangerously
Day 7: Watching The Mind
Day 8: It Needs Intelligence To Be Happy
Day 9: The Integration Of Body, Mind and Soul
Day 10: How To Slow Down
Day 11: Everybody Is Creative
Day 12: Intuition – Tuition From Within
Day 13: Meditation And Conditioning
Day 14: How to Drop Judging People
Day 15: The Art Of Listening
Day 16 – Relaxation Through Awareness
Day 17 – Accepting Every Part Of Me
I am grateful for and love day 4 of Oprah and Deepak Chopra’s Finding Your Flow Meditation Experience. It is on “finding love.”
It has been a profound journey to cultivating self love and self compassion thus far. For me, for a long time, it was easier to love and be compassionate towards others, and I had to learn that it was not only okay to have love and compassion for myself, but it was important and necessary.
I was happy to get the e-mail noting today’s meditation is on love. Each day, I say a mantra of “choose love, not fear.” To choose love as the primary force and energy to go about my day… To choose to see love in others, in my situation, in my life, and in myself–instead of allowing fear and other negativity to get in the way of my having a happy and joyful life.
Today’s centering thought is “my love and compassion are within.”
Today’s Sanskrit mantra is Vam, which means “I am love.”
Link:
Visit The Chopra Center to sign up for the free 21-day meditation experience.
(Image courtesy of The Chopra Center.)
I arrived at the hospital today as some family members were about to leave for lunch. Auntie J is still having a hard time eating and didn’t want to go with them. She came down the hallway before the others left, walking with someone, and they went to the garden.
I stayed and waited for her while she had a talk with that someone who ended up being one of the interfaith chaplains at the hospital.
The Chaplain had been upstairs when he felt the urge to go downstairs to the main floor. At about the same time, two nurses were helping my sobbing aunt to the Chapel/Meditation room. He knew, upon seeing her, he needed to be there for her.
I met Rev. Jacob when they finished their talk and prayer, and he had such a sunny smile and peaceful way about him. He is young, but had experienced so much, including losing his mother at 20. He was able to provide a way for my aunt to express the pain she felt, and he gave her peace and compassion. He even came back to bring information about crying (as Auntie was trying not to cry) and how it helps with healing and also a handmade rosary (which was the last one the chapel had). He is going to give my Uncle an anointment for the sick, as well as blessings.
I am grateful for Rev. Jacob for his gift of compassion and peace to my Auntie J. I believe he is truly an Earth Angel sent to comfort others.
Disclaimer: Image courtesy of prokerala.com.
In life, we will encounter someone (or more than one person) that will have a certain emotional pull on us. In regards to the friend that I mentioned in my “To Be A Better Person, Woman, Friend…” post, there are some emotional triggers.
We had a good talk, but I still find myself often conflicted about this friend.
I realized that in order for me to deal with people who cause an emotional trigger in me is to be stronger in myself.
I have to reach into the self love and to find balance in order to be there for this friend, but not let myself get tangled in what this friend is going through.
This is what I have decided to do:
1. Examine what the triggers are
2. Examine how these triggers come about
3. Set boundaries
I am hoping this will help me through.
I am grateful to be able to just step aside from this situation and be objective about it, so that I can find a viable solution to emotional triggers and how I can deal with them in a better way (one that comes from a place of compassion).
Have you encountered this? How have you dealt with emotional triggers? What works? What doesn’t?
Related posts:
Day 46/365: To Be A Better Person, Woman, Friend…
Day 47/365: Healing From Breaking
(For 12/6/13. I felt the need to wait 24 hours before posting this…)