 Be
A Light Unto Yourself
"Therefore, Ananda, be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge
to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge.
Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth
as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside
yourself. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I
am dead shall be a lamp unto themselves, who take
themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to
the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth
as their refuge, shall not look for refuge to anyone
beside themselves, it is they who shall reach the
highest goal."
-- Mahaparinibbana Sutta
You
Can Be a Light Unto Yourself...
To be aware is to watch your bodily activity, the way
you walk, the way you sit, the movements of your hands:
it is to hear the words you use, to observe all your
thoughts, all your emotions, all your reactions. It
includes awareness of the unconscious, with its
traditions, its instinctual knowledge, and the immense
sorrow it has accumulated—not only personal sorrow, but
the sorrow of man. You have to be aware of all that; and
you cannot be aware of it if you are merely judging,
evaluating, saying, "This is good and that is bad, this
I will keep and that I will reject," all of which only
makes the mind dull, insensitive.
From awareness comes attention. Attention flows from
awareness when in that awareness there is no choice, no
personal choosing, no experiencing... but merely
observing. And, to observe, you must have in the mind a
great deal of space. A mind that is caught in ambition,
greed, envy, in the pursuit of pleasure and
self-fulfillment, with its inevitable sorrow, pain,
despair, and anguish—such a mind has no space in which
to observe, to attend. It is crowded with its own
desires, going round and round in its own backwaters of
reaction. You cannot attend if your mind is not highly
sensitive, sharp, reasonable, logical, sane, and
healthy, without the slightest shadow of neuroticism.
The mind has to explore every corner of itself, leaving
no spot uncovered, because if there is a single dark
corner of one's mind which one is afraid to explore,
from that springs illusion...
It is only in the state of attention that you can be a
light unto yourself, and then every action of your daily
life springs from that light—every action—whether you
are doing your job, cooking, going for a walk, mending
clothes, or what you will. This whole process is
meditation... J. Krishnamurti
Source:
Attunement
I've been delving deep into my psyche lately and developing a whole new
thing that I call Attunement. It starts early in the morning, as
soon as you open your eyes and begin to remember your dreams.
Creating your reality begins with creating your day, and creating your day
means waking up to the reality that you are a powerful being whose choices
effect the outcome of everything that happens. If I wake up before
the sun and begin my journaling early enough I can get in two lovely
solitary hours of self programming before the rest of the world has even
started to think about their morning coffee. As always it is the
early bird who catches the worm... these precious hours at dawn find my
mind lucid. Spirit seems to send lessons for me often, a
dream, an insight, a passage from a book, finding a great new website,
doors swing open and I happily absorb it into my day. Now I want to
start sharing that as it comes so that it can become part of your day too.
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