Meditation Inspiration

I wanted to provide you all with some guidance on meditation, but instead I realise that what everyone really needs is inspiration. 

I thought at first some instruction from a monk on Youtube would be inspiring, or an image of some youthful fitness instructor in Lycra! But neither stimulate the imagination terribly much, or if they do, it could be out of creating a sense of personal inadequacy, with thoughts like "I wish I looked that good in Lycra", or "I wish I were as skilled as a monk."

However, it is approaching the mystical majesty of the creation from a position of infinite gratitude and ultimate humility, as a child embraces the world from within a loving family, without ego and with innocent inquisitiveness, that is the inspiration I sought to impart. 

Which is precisely the characteristics of an original painting I have, that I purchased from a street-side artist on the Thai island of Phuket over 15 years ago. 

As a child we approach the infinity of the Creation, in the humility of recognising that we are but ignorant neophytes lost and wandering on the road to self-realisation. Grateful for the infinite gifts and support we receive along the path, with the hope that we may find some small insight to help release the delusions that obscure from our mind the realisation of unity. In awe of the sublime qualities, perfect structure and mystical origins of the Creation, we recognise that we lead our life basking in the glow of the divine and that ultimately, we are a part of that light. 

I offer the image of this painting that you may consider what the artist was trying to inspire in his audience, and how it is only through meditation that one can cast off their mental constraints to consciously embrace the perfection of the creation and truly understand our relationship to the Creator.

We are like little children, living in ignorance on this Earth plane, unknowing of the truth of the universe around us and our place within it. But as little children, we are loved unconditionally for the unique and priceless part of the whole that we are. 

As the child in the painting at the foot of the Buddha; you are loved, you are cherished, and you are protected within that light, regardless of any perceptions of yourself that you may have. 

Find that light within, and all will be well.

(22) Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom."

They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"

Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."