BLOG 30: DYNAMIC MEDITATION

Blog 30:    9^nd March 2010

Dynamic Meditation

-          Laibl Wolf, Dean, Spiritgrow - The Josef Kryss Wholistic Centre, Australia

Every day we wake to paint on the canvas of life. We choose the colours. We choose the shapes. We choose the position. Life’s meaning is embedded in these choices. The alternative is to become a victim of circumstances and other people’s agendas.

Choice requires kinetic energy. The potential energy of facing a fresh canvas needs to be transformed into active energy of mindfulness and consciousness. This is not a passive languid exercise. The moment of choice becomes a fission point – a tipping point – a spark that kindles the wood of enlightenment. But only if your meditative moment is well practiced. Meditation is not simply quieting the mind.  At times it needs to be an energetic flow of inspired colours, hues and techniques. I call this ‘dynamic meditation’.

In the moment of choice the waves of uncertainty collapse into a new reality - so state quantum physics and Chabad philosophy.

What are the tools needed to actuate the moment’s potential? Well practiced spiritual rehearsal that leads to a new default response for the searching mind, viz:

a)      When: There is a reason why a challenge, encounter, even a mere thought, occurs at any particular point in time.  What clue does it reveal about the wisdom of your potential response?

b)      Why: Why did this scenario arise? What is its background? What were some of the emotional and self-preservational ‘thrusters’ that launched it?

c)       Who: Who has the universe selected to be your teacher in the moment? The personality, circumstances, and nature of the person(s) who is being sent to you as an agent of learning, is significant.

To practice ‘dynamic meditation’ means to re-train and re-create new default responses to moments of challenge, change, uncertainty, and evolution. The restraint-harness that blocks the creative moment of choice is fear. The antidote: the realization that you are not in charge, you are not in control. Yet the universe has already provided you with a true solution. Find it.  It is there. In Kabbalah we call that the principle of Hashgocho Protis (you are under the beneficent and watchful eye of the Universe). Is that comforting?  Might be initially frightening to some. Yet this repose of humility and acceptance creates a completely fresh canvas to paint your mind-picture of this moment. And it frees the mind to engage in healthy search – ‘dynamic meditation’.

This is trainable, learnable, teachable, and do-able. It will free you from the entangled web of former adversities, hurts, and emotional cripplers. These three W’s (When, Why, Who) hold the key to becoming a virtuoso of the soul, a Rembrandt of the brush, a Frank Lloyd Wright of design.

Be creative. Let me hang your painting on my wall!

 (Your comments are invited: Click on reception@spiritgrow.org and let me have the benefit of your insight) 

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