Well here is the first blog post/discourse of 2015
It has been a great year, when I hear the sound of fireworks
and shotguns at midnight on new years eve I couldn’t help but be overcome with
emotion, emotion because I have lived another year and because I personally
have made it this far, we have lost countless people in the past year and for
each and every one of us to make it another one marks a beautiful renewal that
touches each and every one of us even for just a millisecond when the clock
strikes midnight
Many of us are slowly making our way in this structure to
keep ourselves alive, well and healthy. But there are people that do not need
to work so that they can live to survive. I have been taken care of relatively
well the past decade and I am fortunate to be able to be a monk in real life
and follow my spiritual pursuits out in the forest and after a decade of
practice I can say that there is not one set methodology to enlightenment
because it is different for each and every one of us, while I may be striving
for wealth another may be striving to excel in magic or another as a pillar of
their community while another just wants their family to be okay or another
wants to excel in education.
So for any religion to teach a set path to absolute
enlightenment would be an illusion, essentially a religion that can provide the
path to a way of thinking proves to be the most just cause, and I have heard countless
times that ALL RELIGION IS EVIL and just imagine hearing this when you call
yourself a reverend, hahaha it makes you ashamed at that title. I think the
issue with people saying all religion is pointless and not valid to current
times, have simply said that out of ignorance because there is many many paths
one can take, and heck if you can’t find the right one, then take pieces of it
and form your own faith if this is what you think the world needs, for heaven’s
sake don’t waste your life away in ignorance when there is thousands of
Buddhist discourses waiting to be heard or millions of wiccan ebooks waiting to
be studied or masters in meditation or reiki just waiting to teach !
Scientifically all religion may sound like an illusion per
se, but you must ask yourself, where can I find the power to release myself
from countless mindless rebirths, where can I ultimately place my trust to lead
me to absolute and full enlightenment, and where can I spend decades practicing
and not get bored.
For me, these questions found me in my early twenties, I was
at a really difficult time in my life – I was facing 7 criminal charges
including assault on another being with a weapon and I was addicted to various
substances and living a karmically unfortunate existence where one day I was
simply walking down a path in Vancouver and came across a discourse being
taught by S.N. Goenka and that is how the enlightenment, Buddhism, and
meditation found me.
I was finally able to unite with my soul, I was able to see
that I was inflicting harm on others, and I also saw what I was doing to
myself, and had the ability to see what would have happened should I have
stayed on my path and there were two ends, prison or death.
So I faced everything head on and battled my demons and kept
up with the practice and it found me when I needed it the most, now these days
my meditation has evolved into a new level of meditation – of course a waking
awareness type with no distracting thoughts which I find absolutely wonderful-
only because I see people in real life so to speak that just race from one
thought to another
And my meditation has evolved into directed and various
different types I have invented or discovered and it is only unique to me, what
I have discovered however I still laugh at the thought that if I won say
$50,000,000 in the lottery –I think people would want to ‘understand’ my
meditation technique lol
We need distractions yes to operate but when your whole life
is set up with distractions what kind of life are you leading? You come home
after ten hours at work –working for somebody else’s goals, turn on the
television and watch another 4 or 5 hours of illuminated programming and go on
the computer for an hour and then go to bed off to another dimension….where do
you find YOU?
I have always thought that of course you need to zone out
and give yourself a rest but at least give yourself an hour of meditation and
then way later in the day another hour when you have forgotten about the first
hour, then some affirmations then some books to help you on your path then you
will be able to figure out your true path, why you are here and where you are
going after
I definitely want to have control over where I go after this
place, that is my #1 task
Happy New Year Blogbuddies
Have a good start to 2015
-
Shaun A. Delage
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