The tall guy has the looks of a movie actor, but says he’s a model. He should be a movie actor, he’s got the presence, the voice and the delivery, but he’s a model. It’s got to be better than working for a living, and certainly better than not working, better than not getting paid. He says he wants to learn to be in the present, not to be caught up thinking, planning, being in the future. He wants to be able to live in the present, not to be stuck in the pst, the world of his feelings and emotions. Well he’s come to the right place. And from the way he speaks, he’s unquestionably a spiritual guy .
You can never tell by looking at people, the most unlikely people turn out to be spiritual, and there’s no such thing as a likely looking spiritual person. An ex friend used to say his Dad was a cop who told him that the best place to catch criminals was to stand outside a church and arrest them as they came out. I say ex because he gave up on me, not the other way around. I’ve had too few friends in my life to indulge in the luxury of falling out with them, and in any case, who in their right mind would decide to be friends with someone as flawed as my good self. So I value my friends and forgive when they turn out to be as imperfect as myself. If they were perfect, why would they bother with me.
There’s a great paradox in being a human being, correction, probably that cooment should be in the plural, but one of the more obvious paradoxes is that we seem designed to think, programed to think, it’s what we do all day and all night, and we do it involuntarily, and we mostly delude ourselves, because we think that what we think is important. Hardly anyone thinks that what they think is worthless. I do, but that’s because I’ve considered the matter more than most and in 66 years can’t remember more than 6 thoughts that were worth the waste of the electrical discharge in the brain that a thought is. This great city of New York could solve its power problems if it could harness the energy that 8 million brains do 24 hours a day plus that pumped out daily in the epidemic of exercise studios one can see from street level.
There are three new people tonight, a young Turkish woman who accompanied a friend who came for the first time last week, and a young woman from Astoria who saw an advertisement in her local health food store. Both were seeking peace, the young woman from Astoria said she’d been practicing Hatha Yoga for some time, she liked the idea of spontaneity and wanted to be able to experience it..
Nicholas, the model, wants a rest from thinking, to be able to enjoy the here and now for a bit. And he does. The faces of the three new people visibly change from the power and subtlety of the meditation, each experiences something unique to themselves. The Turkish woman feels cool on one side of her head, heat on the other, but nothing on her hands, the woman from Astoria feels tingling on some of her fingers, the man is keen to relate previous spiritual experiences from when he was a young boy and in the afterglow of the meditation, he innately appreciates the power of innocence.
The person who was due to lead the meeting couldn’t come at the last moment. I was sitting comfortably, nicely in meditation towards the back of the room, when, out of the blue I was asked to get up and speak. It suddenly hit me that I had no clue as to how to present the information in the new style and I am sure I did it less than well. But I could see from the outset how important it is, and what a challenge it is to us, the people who have stood up and presented at meditation classes for years, mostly relying on the same crutches we always have, and now suddenly, the onus appears to be on us, although that, of course, is another illusion, the paramchaitanya is ready and willing to help us. One could see that the approach is totally right for the new people, for it recognizes and appreciates their individually unique situations, and it enables them to get more out of the meditation without having to immediately confront aspects they don’t initially feel comfortable with.
Certainly, last night, the vibrations were incredibly strong, and they, the people present for the first time, and everyone else too, some twenty plus in total, left the Pearl Studios in a different, improved state of mind to the one they arrived in – a small but important miracle, one that the world at large cares not a fig for. In these terrible times, what does it mean that a group of people from across many tradtions, cultures, social classes and religious traditions, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and atheists, come together in a spirit of oneness and love, and experience, without charge or obligation, the connection of their own divine energy with the subtle energy of the universe?
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