Comments on: Meditation and Being Fully Alive

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:04:07 +0000

Hiren, I agree being fully alive does have a lot to do with doing the right work for you. I think someone who is fully alive couldn’t do other than their right work, and also that finding the right work would help one become more alive.

By: Hiren Shah

Hiren Shah — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:50:21 +0000

Excellent writeup. I particularly liked what you have mentioned about feeling pain more acutely.It reminded me of what J.Krishnamurthy said that one has to experience without labelling. However he also emphasized the need to have a deeper understanding of relationship with things, people and ideals along with living from moment to moment. Spiritual context apart, I personally feel that in day to day life being fully alive has a lot to do with whether you have found your calling/purpose in life. One should try to be in the right profession which is what my blog is all about- Make your passion your profession

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:46:18 +0000

You are welcome, Eklavya. Thank you for your beautiful words!

By: Eklavya

Eklavya — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:19:06 +0000

Hi Mary !

Thanks for this excellent post. You have described the true quality of a person in meditation. The ability to see beauty in everything no matter how small and mundane it appears is something that meditation instills in all of us. Drop of a rain, blossoming of a flower, smile of a child, the tinkling of the stars or just a cool breeze on the road can awaken us to the vast existence around us.

Keep writing such beautiful posts.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:10:11 +0000

Andrew, I too am grateful. It’s so heart-warming to read your words. You are so very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:35:35 +0000

I am writing this post primarily to thank you for your wonderful meditations, which have continued to enrich my life since first subscribing to your podcast last year. In particular, the Beyond Pain meditation has brought me a great deal of peace, and a release from the pain that has followed me around for so long. I’d been going through some inner turmoil a few days ago, feeling hopeless and desolate, and so decided to listen to this meditation once again. Within a few minutes I could feel the pent-up emotions start to release themselves, and for the first time in days I truly felt a sense peace, and stillness. The dull ache that I’d been feeling has since largely dissipated, and for this I am so grateful. Thank you Mary.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:31:34 +0000

Hi Karen, it does seem like we need to hear the same important things over and over in new ways, doesn’t it! We get used to hearing a message one way and it loses its punch. It’s like we get immune to it. But then, when we hear it another way it has power again.

By: Karen Lee

Karen Lee — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:06:19 +0000

What a great post, Mary. As someone still very caught up in my mind more often than I’m not (but at least not as caught up as I used to be), I appreciate every different way you come up with to say some of the same important things that it can be so challenging to learn!

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:19:27 +0000

You are so welcome, Annelisa. I'm so pleased that the meditations are helping. Your experience of accepting the sadness and at the same time appreciating the small things more echoes what I was trying to say in the post. I enjoyed visiting your wonderful blog and viewing your Dawn Chorus -- a meditation in itself!

By: Annelisa

Annelisa — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:46:28 +0000

Hi Mary

I’ve had a lot of what I considerered negative experiences over the last few years, with several people special to me dying, as well as some other emotionally upheavling processes. In fact, the last ten years are years I’ve just done my best to ‘get through’.

Recently, not willing to use anti-depressants, I started to use meditation to learn to relax and deal with things. And it was only in the last week or so I discovered your podcasts and have made a real change in my way of thinking.

Your meditations are wonderful! I am learning that it is ok for me to feel sad, feel the loss of those I love, but it is also ok to let go. They are helping me appreciate the small things in life I’d forgotten for a while, and to begin to appreciate the new too.

While there are other very difficult things I still have to deal with, I’m finding I’m more able to draw from the calm of the meditations to deal with them.

So, thank you so much for recording and sharing the meditations…they are perfect!

Btw…you have a wonderfully soothing voice!