012815 journal

January 28 Casa journal 3

I just finished sitting through a 5-hour Current, 1:30 to 6:30, so this will be shorter than I planned; I am tired. This morning I went through the line; the Entity took my hand, smiled and said to sit in his Current. So that's where I spent the afternoon and will do the same tomorrow.

Five hours really wipes out any expectations of what a sitting 'should' be. I started with clear focus and energy, present with body and breath, present with objects arising and passing away; present with spaciousness and a sense of joy. The energy in the room was very strong, and after an hour gratitude for that energy was predominant and I moved to a gratitude meditation. Then body aching; sleepiness and finally fell asleep off and on for an hour. I woke up to watch the body discomfort, neck stiff from sleeping in  my chair, mind slow and groggy, no judgment of it, but aware Iwanted clarity! Then I spent a ½ hour entertaining myself with songs: amazing grace and other favorites! The focus woke the mind up a bit. Back to noting and resting in spaciousness. Then back to gratitude. Finally to asking for clarity about my work and the direction of it, how to pull the pieces together, and had a lot of helpful insights, a very focused mind. I let it all go and returned to the breath, and finally stopped all the doing, and just sat in stillness for the last hour! Very peaceful and filled with joy.

A short funny story. Last night in a short email to my group arriving next week, I reminded them to bring toiletries like soap. Unlike an American hotel these pousadas don't provide such things. I noted that I had forgotten my soap and would need to stop and buy some today. That was last night. This morning when I started to shower I opened the small medicine chest to get out my shampoo (to use also as soap today) and eureka! There on the bottom shelf of this very small cabinet was a newly wrapped bar of a lovely soap.

No comment; no explanation! But it was not there when I went to bed and my door was closed all night. I smile every time I see it!

I received an email today form a person who is writing a book based on a series of his/ her remembered past lives, how the karma moved from one to another life and was how it was released. This author asked permission to use a story from Aaron's "47 Stories" that resonated and we said yes, certainly. The chapter I received today is beautiful. It gives me joy that someone is able to use this material and add on to it.

Good night.