Meditation, Chants, Mantras, Folk, Healing, Peace - Music

[azulai]

This weekend I dug out my old notebooks from when I first started my journey and I was really struggling with the Tao paradox of wu wei. And, also there were my notes on meditation, and IDK, something gave when I read my notes. I had this scribble about compassionate meditation. One line and I've just been thinking about it over and over, wishing I had more. So, today I kind of tied compassionate meditation together with positive thoughts and focused my meditation on sending out peace and positivity into the universe while I try to accept wu wei when my nature is wei.



I also found this info on the lotus in my notes, I didn't write down sources at the time. :redface:

Rather than looking at what the lotus symbolizes look at where it comes from:
"The beginning of the life of the Lotus flower is down deep in the muck and the mud of water and it actually grows up and out of the muck, mud, water and swamp to become a beautiful creation of life."
{me then-->life may not start out so great but fight way through the crap of it all and succeed.}

So, one might find himself beneath the murky waters, but in time you grow and with determination rise above the water and bloom. I know this is not related to the Buddhist focus on the lotus/Nirvana, but I thought it was a nice practical man's view. I also wrote down that all parts of the lotus are edible. :tongue: Don't know where I was going with that info. hahaha. And, the lotus opens in the morning and closes at night. Here's a time-lapse vid of one blooming. So peaceful.