With our worldwide celebration of Easwaran’s life coming Sunday, October 24, we continue to enjoy the 2018 Blue Mountain Journal Do You Know Who You Really Are? You can read details of how to participate in the Life Celebration at www.bmcm.org/celebration.
This week in the eSatsang, we’ll read pages 31–37, the first half of Easwaran’s article “The Three Stages of Meditation.” Here he describes the first two stages, in which we discover first that we are not our body and then that we are not our mind either. With these discoveries, Easwaran explains, a great deal of power comes into our hands: “You can tune the engine of your mind very much the way you choose—in fact, you can come to have such mastery that even in your sleep, negative thoughts like resentment, hostility, and greed will not arise. You take full responsibility for your mental states as well as for your behavior.”
Is there a particular situation that causes you to get speeded up or agitated? What tips does Easwaran offer in this reading that you could try out in this situation? Even if the tips don’t seem to directly apply, try them anyhow and tell us what you find.
Continuing our reflection for Sri Easwaran’s Life Celebration, survey your life as it stands right now – your relationships in the family, at work or school, and in your community. Think of one small way you could decrease a sense of separateness and increase harmony in the upcoming year. Write down a specific step you could take. If you’d like, you can use this reflection worksheet to keep your notes.
Please join us in BMCM Satsang Live to continue our month of celebration of Easwaran’s life and teachings.
And here is another “spiritual bonus” from Quietly Changing the World!