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Synchronised Meditations 2015

 

Suggestions for practising from your home

 

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Before you begin, contemplate how you would like the world to be. Envisage what it would be like to live in such a world. You may find that it helps to write notes or to make simple sketches to clarify your intent.

Allow yourself at least fifteen minutes before the link-up time to calm and focus the mind. Find a place where you will not be disturbed and sit in a comfortable position with your back erect but not stiff.

You can make use of any ritual which helps you to calm and focus the mind. You can chant, pray or listen to appropriate music as you wish. Surround yourself with those objects or symbols which make you feel confident and inspired.

 

Visualisation is a time-honoured way of focusing the mind.

Below is a visualisation sequence based on the Buddhist practice of radiating Metta (Loving Kindness) and Karuna (Compassion) first to those you know well and then gradually expanding the field to include all sentient beings (all beings who can feel).


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In mind visualise yourself surrounded by a protection field ( a pyramid of Living Light for instance) which allows in only that which is of Living Light and Love, wisdom, compassion and freedom. This protection field transmutes all other qualities into Living Light and Love, wisdom, compassion and freedom on contact. It does not matter if your visualisation is clear or not, as long as it is there.

* Visualise Living Light and love entering your protection field and surrounding you completely. Experience that Living Light filling every cell and space in your body.

* Visualise the face of a person who you deeply respect. Allow the Living Light and Love to radiate out from your heart towards that person, completely surrounding him or her.

*Visualise your mother and in the same way, allow the Living Light and Love to radiate out from your heart to her. No matter whether she is alive or if she has passed away, the Loving Kindness (Metta) and Compassion (Karuna) will reach her.

*Now visualise your father and in the same way, allow the Living Light and Love to radiate out from your heart to him.

*Visualise people that you care for deeply: family members, loved ones, dear friends and allow the Living Light and Love to radiate to them.

*Visualise people that you know but not well: colleagues at work, neighbours, people you sometimes see in the street, and allow the Living Light and Love to radiate to them in the same way.

* Now as if you are looking down from a satellite, see spread out below you the living map of the country (or countries) where you usually live. Allow Living Light and Love, like a searchlight, to play across the country, to vitalise all living beings there.

* Moving further out into space, see the globe of the Earth turning slowly, lit from one side by the light of the sun: fragile home to millions upon millions of beings who can feel. Allow the Living Light and Love to radiate out from your heart to mother Earth.

* In mind recollect the many thousands of people around the Earth who are linking with you at this time. You may see them as a network of light linked in mind and intention around the globe.

* See in mind the world as you would like it to be. See it as actually happening, here and now.

* Express gratitude to and bless the wholeness/ holiness that we all are. Know that your/our combined intention has made a profound difference to the manifesting field of experience.

* Gently and gradually bring the Living Light back to your room allowing it to flow to and fill any companions with you there.

* Allow the Living Light and Love to surround you and fill you completely, for in your wholeness/holiness is creation made whole.

 

Synchronized meditations in 2015 (BE 2558)

 

 

Solstices and Equinoxes in 2015

 

Vernal Equinox             

March 20 22:45 GMT

March 21 05:45 Thai time

Summer Solstice:

June 21 16:38 GMT

June 21 23:38 Thai time

Autumn Equinox:

September 23 08:20 GMT

September 23 15:20Thai time

Winter Solstice:

December 22 04:38 GMT

December 22 11.38 Thai time