Meditation teachers usually call the action of sitting to meditate: practice, when the reality is that the practice is done day by day, moment by moment in all activity. When we enjoy a beautiful sunrise, but we also understand that it is a process that occurs every 24 hours as a result of the movement of rotation of the earth and with this we are also aware of its impermanence.
The practice is also done when we read about some fact that we consider unfair but we do not remain attached to the sensation that it provokes in us.
We perform the practice when making contact with another person, this offends us, hurts. Their selfish, narcissistic attitudes, etc. are only a reflection of their ignorance and how we respond is the reflection of ours, and this can be attacking also or in another case in what could be a good practice: contemplate with compassion and move forward without being chained to its manifestations.
When we sit down to meditate is like making a direct line call from you to you. Contemplating how daily practice has nourished or malnourished us. Going deep and seeing ourselves face to face. Make peace, heal what we have hurt, forgive us for what we have failed. Our essence, which is all love, purity and clarity and which over the years we sabotaged worried about how to project ourselves in front of others and abandoning ourselves.
Meditating and practicing are twin sisters only one is made inward and the other out and in both cases you find a complete world, elements to contemplate when opening the eyes or closing them and it is the continuous practice that provides a balance where “both worlds “are manifested in a unit in which inside or outside are only words that describe periods of our state but that are part of a single universe.
When in our daily life, practice and meditation lose their name. When the concepts disappear, the freedom of our being begins. Then we are just a manifestation of love.
Metta always
Sukheti
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