First Jhāna’s All You Need
August 13, 2024 2024-09-09 22:25First Jhāna’s All You Need
So now I Wake up, take a look, make a change.
I stop right here, right now, whatever thing I am doing, I can remember to consciously stop and see: what is happening right now? How do I feel? Which thoughts am I having? Then I enter the doors of the senses, how do my clothes feel on my skin? The feet on the floor? The butt on the chair? Can I take some deep breaths and remind myself how I can feel good with very little, because I believe that is enough, that I have arrived, that there is nothing to do and nowhere to go? I can be alive here and now, I let the chest expand with inhalation and contract with exhalation, such a gift that it is! Feeling safe, secure, wholesome on the inside, and satisfied.
Then first jhāna arises, I come to the state of the plateau, my homebase, the always on time train of the present moment. I let go of the worries, the neediness, the complaining, and the wanting for something more, for something next. Here the fire of the wholesome has started, from a little sparkle of intention, now the logs are on fire and it warms me up, what a joy to nourish it and keep it alive!
I will abide in the wholesome, I will get to know my mind and its mysteries because from here everything looks more clear and the clouds of doubt are far away, blown by the winds of conscious decision. Right effort and awesome thoughts in line, born one after another, from the womb of nourishment and awareness of my sweetest behalf, the one I call when I need to come to understand that this moment is all I have and I will be relaxed and chilled, swimming in an ocean of wholesomeness.
My safe environment is a state of mind that doesn't need boundaries to be protected, that I don't have to put a guard on, that I don't have to defend. It's an expanded light of softness that embraces all there is right here, right now.
Such a delight to abide in first jhāna.
Such a delight to be here and now.
In noble wisdom I trust, and I let myself flow in the stream of the never-ending present moment.
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