Where is your Power Going?

[Mike]

Some thought things behind this question:

- my recent comments on the "naughty guru" thing ... ie that folks give their power over to teachers and authority figures in general ... or to relationships etc

- listening to a Caroline Myss talk she is talking about this question to her audience ... "most of you aren't even here ... without even knowing it most of you and your power is off with all the various groups you belong to" ... its an interesting point.

- in a separate CM DVD she talks about energy circuits ... "each day you have a $100 coming ... wheres it going ... well you might be sending $30 to your past .... $30 to fund your anxieties ... " etc etc.  In both she has talked about being here and now far more interesting than all your stories of past lives (none ever in suburbia )

- James Low at the start of the first seminar I went to with him said "now lets have 5minutes of silence so we all actually turn up"

- Burgs uses this "just turning up would be a big start" phrase

- in Zen, Chinese/Japanese Tea ceremony being "here and now" is a big deal

- shamanic traditions of course have a big thing about soul loss or splitting ...

- I have never understood [and never thought it was the right thing to ask (as I strongly suspect its one of those "ask me again in 10yrs time" things ) what Professor Yu meant in his writing to Master Lam (in some calligraphy reproduced in one of the books) "To my pupil Lam Kam Chuen, guard your spirit"

- Luang Por Sumedho often talks about a Thai word which sounds like "samruam" .... which means collecting ... re-collecting from the sense of being scattered.

- I recall one Dzogchen Lama speaking to another who had been imprisoned by the Chinese for many many years ... the former concluded that *all his practices and responsibilities* were the very thing keeping him from (don't recall the phrase but something like) "the natural state"

- on this front as TTEM includes the words tools ... its important not to spend all your life with your life and then spend some with your tools ... its like folks who get stressed in the office then get (physiologically) stressed in the gym ... always doing, doing, doing ... doing is never non-doing and its non-doing that's the antidote to all of this.

etc etc

Anyway thought for the week ... try and see where you "are" and where your power is going.  Are you giving it away without realising?  Is it going in many directions? Are you so busy with all your life and practices that there is never any "space"?

You have nothing to lose other than your habitual prison (that you build for yourself).

 

Mike