"Before you go to bed each night, you can send gratitude, compassion, and healing to the being you have been up until this moment. And you can send lightness and love into the future for the one you are in the process of becoming. As you rest you can surrender to these peaceful hours, knowing that the road behind you has been seen and acknowledged with respect and kindness, while the path ahead now holds your own benevolence and well wishes. It allows you to let the past have its place, to trust that the future is taken care of, and to simply rest yourself in the graceful arms of the present moment. Though simple, this action honors the journey you have taken thus far, while opening you to the wonderful possibilities still ahead." DAILY OM
Dearest all, the above gem is FROM DAILY OM! Meditators-read this with our recent meditative explorations into Surrender in mind! And let me use it as a trigger point to speak a little about the PAST...and our surrender to it.
The past-can be understood in many ways: rest in the deeper view (of the larger pictures' knowing) that whatever has 'happened' is for your good. For once something's 'happened', its happened.... yet as per 'your' larger will! So rest (or restfully reflect as to why you chose that happening) but fret not! Rest in knowing that 'you' chose it to be for some future good that you may yet be unable to see! Rest in the knowing that whatever it may appear as, it is the perfect fit for the completion of your larger picture as God or Universe experiencing its being! Remember Buddha saw each and every moment of all his lives in the moments prior to 'his' enlightenment happening; in this he knew every aspect of the so called 'past' was such a flawless part of it all!
Indeed at a deeper level whatever makes up the past is what 'You' (or the Whole) did in that one split moment of existence coming into being; for it all really happened in that one nano second- in the complete surrender that all is fitting into perfect beingness...that all is instantly culminating into the biggest orgasm of all –a self in love with all that it Is, exploring Itself in abandon and merging back with fulfilled Self! Call it the big bang or zero point or whatever and conjure every thing whizzing about, blending, merging, separating, coming together in new ways gestalts or composites… yet all in perfect tandem … towards higher and deeper fulfillment! All That Is paradoxically becoming ‘more’ through this beingness! Time and space and existence is like watching/enjoying a replay of that blissful all consuming moment in slow motion. And thus everything that becomes the past... moment to moment... for even as I write this ‘word’ ....it has become the past and thus what 'happened' … or I as Creator chose…. to do/be in that one second- for the good of the whole; and as a part of that whole, for the larger good of 'me'! Please pay attention here: for at the deepest levels, once something has become the past…like this sentence…it’s what ‘I’ or the whole through ‘me’ …did… in that one nano second!
But wait... for if you are with me beyond the words… it implies that THE PRESENT is when you tap into that nano second! The present is actually out of or beyond ‘Time’ itself - for if you really think about it, ‘time’ can only exist in terms of the past or future; because the now… or the present moment is ... ? … *! Too fleeting... cannot be pinned...! For even as you say 'now', it’s become the past! Or if you think about your very next ‘now’ it’s still the future! And thus at a deeper level this timeless NOW, indeed every NOW- each present moment is our beingness in that split moment of creation-call it the big bang- call it zero point- call it consciousness coming into being, call it the role of the dice, call it the rising of universal kundalini.. call it that moment of all choices or happenings!
Think beloveds at the POWER OF THIS GNOSIS (knowing beyond the words)- in every now you tap into that ‘beginning’….! Into your being Creator! Into the power of the Whole! Into that power that sets into motion effects as per ‘your’ will!! Indeed at the deepest of levels- what you do in every now; is what ‘happened’ in That now! But it’s not gone… and done with… that’s only in reference to the past! But if you live in awareness that in every now, you are in the seat of creator, creation…shaping the universal experience as per the will of the whole - you can indeed live powerfully.
Simply put, for the beginners, the past is something that ‘had’ to happen- or you chose it to happen- and yet its happened! So you can either rest in the above larger picture; or reflect on what it was about in terms of the larger picture, what did you learn, or will learn - and in this surrender- instead of fighting the past, instead of blame, guilt, regret- SURRENDER TO THE PAST HAPPENS AND BRINGS YOU INTO EVERY NOW!
Love from my heart to yours
Divyaa Kummar
Living in the Now truly means living without any past conditioning; Living in the Now truly |
