Being connected to the vitality that arises through standing meditation feels more and more like what I use to feel when I was experimenting with lucid dreaming. There is this level of consciousness that is pleasurable, alive, lucid and powerful. But for some reason we are caught up in this constant stream of empty thought forms that are our worries, plans and obsessions.
The watch I spoke about in the last post is like a mechanism by which we remember to get back to this more powerful, creative energy available to us any time. Throughout the day we remember to wake up from this bad dream in which we feel powerless over the circumstances of our lives. And when we wake up we are back here in the place where we know we have all this quiet, perceptive energy to help us.
In this place we don't have to think and effort ourselves towards a better life. Our instincts, clear of all the muck, make the right choices naturally from a place of abundance, courage and confidence. First, it recognizes that this is the better life. Second it uses thought to deal mostly with practical matters, not spinning fantasies.
And then it works recursively to build and increase the energy, the insight, the power. It does this with compassion and kindness.
It does this as effortlessly as breathing.
