September
27, 2012, Lakewood, CO
10:29:37,
hours MDT
...continued hiker’s meditation…
Below is another meditation from our guy Rolf:
Meditations
from the Mat, Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison
Day 220
In the night of all beings, the
wise man sees only
The radiance of the Self.
Bhagavad Gita
Leaf fall has begun here at this elevation. The showers of
the past evenings are readying the soils at the roots of the trees as they shut
down and the phloem slows to a stop for the dormant season. Smells abound; both
animal scent and decaying leafs etc. Folks are wearing more clothes and the dew
is a noticeable element earlier in the mornings.
Things are okay these days… no emotional emergencies that
others are overrunning me with. Nothing is so darn urgent that I can not take
time to just Be and respond accordingly.
Things, events and people’s “stuff” takes TIME at times.
Rushing around and thinking that there is urgency— to react to every electronic
ping, text, email or call is a falsehood in the culture at large. There just is
not an emotional emergency that needs the instant reaction that Apple or ATT or
the political hacks dictate to us all that we need to react or lose something.
Lose what, is my response— lose what?
Seems like the material world Rolf addresses above is the
cause of the injustice and related emotional pain, pressure and stresses we
experience. Correct?
When was the last time you noticed- that the clamor of the material
goods culture did not have this pressure upon you?
The months and years I spent living outside helped me to
understand that there are no emotional emergencies that lead one into this type
of despair. The culture’s mores and how the parts of this puzzle interact w/
one’s psyche have more to do with one’s despair than living in nature and
working the metabolism. We should heed
the sage’s advisement here— that connecting to our own soul is the leading
beacon— for those attempting to alleviate the pressures and pain of the
encroachment of the Culture. We need the like- minded here, hence the power in
practicing asana in a group.
