Every Day is Christmas and Every Night is New Years Eve
…ah yes, the sweet words of SADE, and they point to something I want to discuss ~ how we allow the cycles of time to rob of us our inherent joy NOW. I touched upon this already in my entry What Time Can I Be Happy Today?
If we are truly committed to awakening there are things we can do to accelerate that process. On the deepest level there is no where to go, nothing to become but to have this kind of experience as a felt reality some commitment is required on our part. One way we can do this is to set traps for ourselves. One approach is to set our watches to chime hourly and to use that chime as a bell of mindfulness. We will be caught “off guard” by the chime, we can use that opportunity to see what trip we might have been running, unconsciously. We can use it to notice the sensations in our body, taking of note of ways we may be holding tension unnecessarily.
If any of you have been watching the class with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey you may have noticed there are some message boards related to his book. I started a thread on this board along these lines called Using Time to Step Out of Time. My dream is to see hundreds of thousands, even millions of people devoted enough to their own awakening that they will use the hourly chime feature on their watches as a device to remember, to remember themselves, to remember presence and the depth of who we truly are. In this way, truly, every day can feel like Christmas, and every night, like New Years Eve … Won’t YOU join us?