Summertime and the roses are blooming.<\/p>\n
Find some and take time to smell them.
\nBe fully present, smelling them.
\nLet their smell fill your awareness.
\nNot a sniff, or two.
\nBreath them in, over and over.
\nStretch into the experience, reach for it from your heart.
\nNotice what comes forward and what fades away.
\nLet go of the thinking, focus on the feeling, the being of this.
\nImagine this smell flowing through your whole body, how
\ndoes you experience roses as a state of being?
\nBreathing life through the rose.<\/p>\n
Let memories of roses come and float away.
\nStay with this rose for long enough to know this smell unfiltered,
\nright here and now.<\/p>\n
When you have been present with this rose, allowed your being
\nto reflect and communicate with it, slowly come back into the world,
\nand notice where you have been.
\nNotice the “waking”, the mind coming back on line.
\nIf you are fortunate it may take a while.
\nNotice the “dying”, which aspects are going off line.
\nIs this not like waking from a dream?<\/p>\n
Over the minutes and hours return to your experience,
\ncall up the smell of the rose.
\nHow does your being react?
\nHow much of the full experience returns?
\nDoes the mind slow and stop?
\nWhat parts come alive?
\nPractice this.<\/p>\n
When we have intense experiences, intimate experiences, meditations,
\nor dreams, are they not all alike?
\nWe shift our awareness to other levels of being, we are “transported”.
\nTake this chance to notice where you go and how you “return”.
\nHow much do you retain?
\nor is the mind in a hurry to “wake up”, to “get on”, to “be real”?<\/p>\n
These transported states are quite real, just different.
\nCarry the smell of the rose with you, in your being.
\nAllow yourself that state, the awareness of smelling the rose,
\nfiltering into the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
Is it not wonderful to live your life through the smell of a rose?<\/p>\n
(\u00a9 6\/2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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