マウイ島の時は静かに流れる
ディーパック・チョプラ博士の
21日間メディテーションの7日目です
完全性を感じる
「偉大であること、全体であること、
それは、何事も除外しないことです。
すべての全体でありなさい」
フェルナンド・ペソア
おめでとうございます。
真の幸せへと向かう旅の第一週が今日で終わります。
完全であるという感覚は、内なる幸せの大切な感覚です。
完全であるという感覚は、全体を感じることを意味します。
あなたのハイヤーセルフを垣間見ることであり、
あなたに欠けているものは
何もないのだということを知ります。
あなたはあなたの中に
すべて必要なものを持っています。
あなたは、あなたが必要としているもの、
すべてなのです。
一つであるという気づきが
完全であるという感覚への鍵となります。
完全であるという感覚と
穏やかな喜びの感覚をもたらす
自己認識の目覚めとなるからです。
今日の瞑想では、
全体であるという感覚、
すなわち、あなたの真の自己である
完全性の感覚を体験します。
この一体性という感覚で生きる時、
すべてを楽々と光り輝きながら
喜びと共に楽しみ始めるのです。
Day 7 – Feeling Complete
“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.” ― Fernando Pessoa
“Congratulations! Today we complete the first week of our journey into real happiness. The feeling of completion is an important part of inner happiness. Feeling complete means we feel whole. We glimpse the vastness of our higher self and know we do not lack anything. We have everything we need within us; we are everything we need.
This awareness of wholeness is the key to feeling complete, because it is the awakening of self-knowledge that provides the feeling of wholeness and the feeling of quiet joy that accompanies it. Today’s meditation will awaken our experience of wholeness – that sense of completeness that is our true self. As we learn to live life from this state of wholeness, we begin to enjoy everything with ease, grace and delight.”
Today’s Centering Thought
“I am wholeness”
Sanskrit Mantra
“Sarvatva – I am wholeness” (Deepak’s pronunciation sounds like Sahr-Vat-Va)
Oprah
“Welcome to day 7 Feeling Complete. We’re already wrapping up our first week of Expanding Your Happiness. We’ve connected within to the source of greatest peace, love, playfulness and hope that lights up and empowers our lives. When we connect to it fully, that source leads us to extraordinary wholeness, more complete and meaningful than anything we might imagine. Getting quiet beyond calming the mind, getting quiet to a place past doing, past thinking, past experiencing, to pure heart-centered awareness – that is a journey to wholeness and a level of happiness that can transcend and transform you. Let’s go there together. Deepak leads the way.”
Deepak
“Few people are given any training on how to be happy. They look at others and imitate the things that seem to make them happy. In the field of positive psychology, it’s generally accepted that this method isn’t very productive, the image of consumers made happy by the next smart phone, millionaires made happy when they become billionaires, and other myths still linger. Lasting happiness isn’t attained through money, status, power or pleasure. It’s attained through inner fulfillment and inner fulfillment depends on being whole. When we feel complete, we don’t have empty spaces inside that need to be filled.
In the world’s spiritual traditions, turning inward wasn’t done chiefly to find peace of mind or to settle the restless mind. The aim was to connect with pure awareness. Pure awareness is the mind when it isn’t thinking. I call it the womb of creation. Pure awareness contains all possibilities. Because it is whole, you become more whole, more complete as you experience it. You start to find the integrated whole self that is your true self. When the true self is fully awake, you are complete. No matter what you might be doing or thinking.
Positive psychology has also found that there is long term happiness when a person accomplishes something they really value; when they set goals that take years to accomplish and when they devote themselves to a higher set of values whether it’s called compassion, giving, service, or humanitarianism. This is an invaluable clue to happiness that goes further because when you awaken your true self, your inner transformation becomes a supreme accomplishment, the state of enlightenment becomes your personal reality as long as you live.
In today’s meditation, your foundation and reference point will be wholeness. Being complete isn’t a struggle or a goal lying far in the future. Wholeness is already yours. All that needs to change is your point of view. Once you experience pure awareness, your personal reality will become more and more whole without effort.
As we prepare to meditate together, let’s take a moment to consider our centering thought, I am wholeness. I am wholeness.
Now let’s prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Begin aware of your breath and breathe slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Now gently introduce the mantra, Sarvatva. This mantra reveals the wholeness within individual consciousness. Repeat it silently to yourself, Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little bit more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Continue with your meditation for about 10 minutes. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Just mentally. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Sarvatva. Release the mantra. Continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes
As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, I am wholeness. I am wholeness. I am wholeness.
Namaste
Journal Questions:
1. “The feeling of completeness is a unique form of happiness, where we know we are whole and do not feel a lack of any kind. In this state, everything in the imperfect superficial world is nevertheless perfect, just as it is. Write in your journal about a glimpse you may have had of this way of seeing life.”
2. “Write your thoughts on the differences between seeing life from a place of completeness as opposed to seeing life as an accident of random forces. We can choose the state of consciousness we want to attain, and thereby choose the level of happiness in our lives.”
3. “Write about an area of your life that you feel is lacking or incomplete. Now instead of approaching that topic as something that is “wrong” or a problem to be fixed, or a hole to fill, consider that this issue might be helping you grow or learn something valuable. Think and write about the ways in which this issue is a hidden blessing, or a way for you to grow stronger and wiser than you would have otherwise.”
4. “Reflect further on today’s experience.”
ナマステ
