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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Monday, July 18, 2005

Blue Buddha

I had some experiences during meditation this evening, and will clean this up tomorrow at some point. But it is very, very late and I have only a few hours left of sleep before I tackle a 10 hour workday tomorrow.

Sitting in half lotus position this evening. Meditation lasted just over an hour. I felt compelled to chant this evening. At some point, I was chanting, but I wasn't. My lips were no longer moving and it just simply became noise that protruded from my mouth. Noise that came deep within my chest/belly.

The faint chanting noises became apparent again, and they appeared to get louder when I chanted as well, but provided an echo-ing effect for those moments that I held my breathe and looked within.

Soon, I began to lose all feeling of my body. I was conscious enough to notice that I could not feel anything from my chest down.

My body became increasingly hot. I could feel heat - almost as though I was 2 inches outside of my body feeling the heat penetrating off. I am having trouble explaining this.

It was then that the illuminated blue buddha came before me. He was a dark blue, and was radiated in a blue and white light that shone seemingly from behind him. He remained for a few moments, and then he was gone. I tried to recall the image but of course - that wasn't happening.

It is about 45 minutes since this experience. When I brought myself out of meditation I had immense energy. I had an urge to leave the house. But I stayed. And researched the image of the blue buddha.

I asked some very specific questions before I went into meditation. And while looking within I also requested some answers.


More tomorrow.

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