Monday, October 19, 2009
Shrim (you must be kidding)
This is a joke right? If you remember yesterday in my blog I was going on and on about how I had tried to anticipate what my meditation discussion would be like. And I predicted it would be me and the instructor alone in a room because, "how many people could really be interested in learning meditation"? Well today, the first day of actual lessons, it was me and the instructor in a room by ourselves meditating. Oh how humorous the universe is.
And, if you will recall, I had to bring fruit and flowers for a ceremonial offering. Well I made the offering and there was a ceremony. Come on, where are the cameras at?
Then I got my special word, my mantra. Each person gets his/her own mantra. Mine is Shrim. The first few times I said it I said shrimp. Again, the universe is poking fun at me.
Blah blah blah I'm meditating and relaxing. My mind is trying to take things seriously but every so often it chimes in over the repetitious "Shrim" to ask in a sarcastic tone, "you just paid $750 to sit on a couch in silence? You can do that at home for free!" Shrim Shrim Shrim Shrim Shrim
Blah blah blah I'm meditating and actually do find myself really relaxing. I'm finally able to quiet my mind and I'm able to tune out the noise of the city and focus on the sound of the fountain outside and feel the cool breeze coming in through the window. It's nice. Not $750 nice - but nice.
So at the end the instructor asks if I have any questions. In my most politically correct and non-condocenting manor I inquire, through this experience, "where am I suppose to be going and how will I now when I'm there?" This made Will, my instructor, laugh. "I want to jump to the end of the book and see how it ends," I admit to him.
"Wherever you are is where you are suppose to be," the instructor explains in his soft Australian accent. Which make the second part of my question irrelevant because I'm never suppose to be anywhere other than where I am.
No, really - I'm being Punked right now.
But I suppose you half to wonder if there's something to that. Not being a religious person in the lest bit, the only piece of philosophy I've ever believed in is that the World gives each and every one of us challenges to overcome - lessons we must learn. When we learn something we move onto the next stage of life and are presented with new challenges. It's as if life is one giant relay game in Survivor. Will's answer to my question would seem to go along with that philosophy.
Sure we want more in life and we aspire to be greater than what we are. But where we are in any given moment is exactly where we are suppose to be. Just because we don't understand or enjoy the situations we find ourselves in doesn't mean we're not suppose to be in them in order to learn something or improve something around us.
So I guess I could say "woes me, I'm in a difficult place in life" but I don't believe that is quite accurate. I was in a difficult place. But I'm learning to take decisive action for myself to improve my well being. That's the lesson I'm learning.
The Universe is laughing hysterically at this shit, right now.
And, if you will recall, I had to bring fruit and flowers for a ceremonial offering. Well I made the offering and there was a ceremony. Come on, where are the cameras at?
Then I got my special word, my mantra. Each person gets his/her own mantra. Mine is Shrim. The first few times I said it I said shrimp. Again, the universe is poking fun at me.
Blah blah blah I'm meditating and relaxing. My mind is trying to take things seriously but every so often it chimes in over the repetitious "Shrim" to ask in a sarcastic tone, "you just paid $750 to sit on a couch in silence? You can do that at home for free!" Shrim Shrim Shrim Shrim Shrim
Blah blah blah I'm meditating and actually do find myself really relaxing. I'm finally able to quiet my mind and I'm able to tune out the noise of the city and focus on the sound of the fountain outside and feel the cool breeze coming in through the window. It's nice. Not $750 nice - but nice.
So at the end the instructor asks if I have any questions. In my most politically correct and non-condocenting manor I inquire, through this experience, "where am I suppose to be going and how will I now when I'm there?" This made Will, my instructor, laugh. "I want to jump to the end of the book and see how it ends," I admit to him.
"Wherever you are is where you are suppose to be," the instructor explains in his soft Australian accent. Which make the second part of my question irrelevant because I'm never suppose to be anywhere other than where I am.
No, really - I'm being Punked right now.
But I suppose you half to wonder if there's something to that. Not being a religious person in the lest bit, the only piece of philosophy I've ever believed in is that the World gives each and every one of us challenges to overcome - lessons we must learn. When we learn something we move onto the next stage of life and are presented with new challenges. It's as if life is one giant relay game in Survivor. Will's answer to my question would seem to go along with that philosophy.
Sure we want more in life and we aspire to be greater than what we are. But where we are in any given moment is exactly where we are suppose to be. Just because we don't understand or enjoy the situations we find ourselves in doesn't mean we're not suppose to be in them in order to learn something or improve something around us.
So I guess I could say "woes me, I'm in a difficult place in life" but I don't believe that is quite accurate. I was in a difficult place. But I'm learning to take decisive action for myself to improve my well being. That's the lesson I'm learning.
The Universe is laughing hysterically at this shit, right now.
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