Perfect bliss - yoga

Self acceptance

is the beginning

of true meditation.

When you fully allow

everything to be

exactly as it is

then you transcend

that level of experience.

You allow the body to

be as it is

and your awareness

expands beyond the body.

You allow the emotions

to be as they are

and your awareness

expands beyond emotion.

You allow thoughts to

be as they are,

and your awareness

expands beyond the thinking.

If there is any urge

to change something,

improve something,

then there is conflict

and you remain stuck

in that which you wish

to change.

Many see happiness

as some future goal:

'If I can heal my emotions,

if I can stop reacting in this way,

if I can be free of these memories,

if I can stop my thoughts

then I will be happy.'

And so there are all

of these different modes

of healings and therapies

and belief systems

giving you the illusion that

if you just work on yourself

hard enough and long enough

then you can be a perfect person.

And nothing could be farther

from the truth.

I am not knocking

self improvement,

it has its purpose,

but it also gives you the illusion

that some time in the future

you will be good enough.

Which means you are not

good enough now.

The underlying

condition of self improvement

is that how you are in this moment

is wrong.

You are a glitch in the system

and you need to be fixed.

Yet from your natural state

of pure awareness

everything is perfect

as it is.

Not as a judgment

but that which is self evident.

So when you enter meditation,

accept yourself as you are.

This is not

'I love myself as I am'

or any other psychological therapy.

It is to accept everything as it is

all the way to the core.

You let it all be exactly as it is

without any involvement.

You let go of trying

to do it,

trying to control it

and allow that

which cannot be known

to take over.

Because then you relax into

the essence of that experience.

And the essence

of all experience

is consciousness.

One all encompassing

Perfect consciousness

that lights up the whole show.

That is

the whole show.

And the nature

of consciousness

is bliss.

Perfect bliss.

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