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RE: My whole spiritual journey summed up in just one post (and a video)
Interesting, I should focus us breath more! It's not a huge part of my practice, but I could be practicing breath very easily wherever I go.
Watching the video now, do you ever get on discord?
I just saw "Ha! Breath of Life" while I was in Hawaii, life's always speaking
No, I'm not often on discord but yesterday there was a discussion about that with @brightstar - she wants to bring some spiritual people together on discord and here on steemit.
When you watch the video, you will see, that it's not really about focusing on the breath, but being the breath and nothing else.
In "normal" breathing meditations you have 2: you and the breath - you watching the breath - you needing to focus on the breath.
In being the breath this all drops away and it's more like a realization than a practice. Blessings! ❤️
I think I told you this before, but sometimes the way this guy speaks bothers me... But that wasn't enough to prevent me from watching and hearing that incredible video. Such a simple switch from just be, to just be the breath, which really guides us and asks us, what would that be like? Then we have to listen and observe what it would mean to be the breath.
He grew on me as the video went.
In the past I've noticed how shallow my breath was, so I will be implementing this practice as often as I remember to the next few days. I resteemed you and will be writing a piece on breath and referencing this. Thanks! and glad I found you again!
I totally understand. It took me quite some time to let Matt in. First I thought that he was arrogant - "Who does this guy think he is? Jesus?" 😀
Until I found out, that what I misperceived as arrogance was just a radiance of unshakable security of what he is. That got me. Thank you for your sharing and I'm happy that you watched till the end. From one breath to the one breath ❤️
Thank you for the clarification. The video is great so far, been meditating to it at work and not getting much done because that would be counterproductive haha.
If you guys plan on getting together on discord let me know! Just found @brightstar yesterday and figured out I didn't have you followed today
ha I totally understand! Since watching and listening to Matt is my only spiritual practice (and I do that at least 2 hours a day), I know, that I can't do anything else but listen and digest and sometimes stopping the video/audio after just one sentence because he was again turning my world upside down 😀Yeah, we will let you know - if it's not Discord then maybe some other way to come together and focus our "work" here on Steemit.
One book which I've found extremely helpful, though the word use is much different, is "The Transparency of Things" by Rupert Spira..
I basically flip to any page and read two paragraphs and start to apply it in practice and I'm meditating. I am going to apply Matt's teachings as well, because if it worked so well at work it will be even better during time I set aside for meditation
Yeah, I love Rupert too. His teachings were very important to me over quite some time, but Matt is taking me to places like no one else - especially since the "Love teachings" bring a beautiful balance to the sometimes very "maskuline" Advaita teachings.
Sorry to spam your comments, here's the post: https://steemit.com/spirituality/@jakeybrown/breathwork-4-methods-to-deepen-the-breath
Gave credit where credit was due ;)
Thank you!