In my meditation practice I often receive guidance. If I ask for help about something specific help is there. In this particular meditation four meditation guidelines were passed on to me. I was asked to contemplate each one. They are: Everything is OK
Nothing is missing.
I don’t know who I am.
I am a part of all there is.
Everything is OK brings me to contemplate all the things I would consider not OK and to somehow see the bigger picture where everything is OK. OK doesn’t mean comfortable or even acceptable. It encourages me to look at the mystery by which I think the universe is run in which there is a lot of information I am not privy to. OK means, what is, is. In a weird way, if I sit with this guideline long enough, it is oddly comforting.
Nothing is missing encourages me to observe my personality tendency to notice what is missing and what needs to be changed in order for everything to be where it should be. If nothing is missing just as it is and I sit with it long enough to observe the truth of it, that is also a source of relaxation and peace.
I don’t know who I am is what I call my death practice. When I began to contemplate this truth it was extremely frightening to me. If I don’t know who I am then who am I? If I go with it, I can experience expansive energy and spaciousness beyond my separate self and beyond being in a body. When I can let go of who I I think I am and open to allowing the barriers of my separate self to melt away I feel a sense of blissful being not attached to myself as I have known myself.
I am a part of all there is, is the sense that we are all one and that I am a part of that oneness. It has transformed into Love is all there is because when I don’t have a separate self there is no more I. I do believe that everything is Love and Love is all there is. The Beatles were on to something.
When I practice these contemplations my meditation is very satisfying. I am so grateful they were shared with me and I can now share them with you.
