Newsletter #21, by Anna (28 Oct, 2012)

Hi guys,

Jai baba Swami to my sweet Samarpan friends! Most of you probably know me. Some of you I haven’t met in person yet, though it feels like I know you allready as I have been tuning into the lovely JCO sessions over last couple of weeks.

Usually on Wednesdays when you guys have your chat, I am comuting back from work so to save your ears from some serious background noise-I’ ve been joining in “the listen only” mode.

So this week I just wanted to say a quick hello to everyone and share some of my ponderings about the Soul stuff and Collectivity. So here it comes…

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Samarpan Online Group Meditation Newsletter

TOPIC FOR THE WEEK – THE JOY OF COLLECTIVITY

Before I joined Samarpan meditation, there was an increasing feeling that there is something more to life than society teaches us. Material world was allright; it just wasn’t enough. Something was fundamentaly missing. Something vital. That one element that would help to make sense of everything. Who am I? What is this life about? How are we meant to live it?Why things are the way they are?

And so my quest began. Spiritual books were interesting but didn’t give me any experiences. I had some facinating chats with intelectuals about spirituality, but inspiration would ran out very quickly…

So it was a choiceless choice, I had to respond to that inner calling and literally travel accross the world to discover Samarpan meditation and later find myself in India meditating with thousands of people, during a live shibir. Then something crazy happened. My Soul awoke! All the inernal dots connected and my questions got anwered. Just like that. What wasn’t possible through years of “seeking” using my own efforts, just happened over a split second in collectivity. In the presence of Grace that those thousands of people established due to their Meditation practice, something shifted within. Don’t know exactly when it happened, but subtly all the burdens, sorrows and thoughts I was carrying around just dissapeared.

This original experience +regular meditation gradualy freed me up of all the mental clutter and paved a way to experiencing life in way I never imagined was possible.

Prior to the positive and negative, spiritual and material, happiness and pain-there is natural joy, satisfaction and a sense of freedom. Everything is welcome and nothing appears to be a problem.

I am sure that all of you guys share similair stories to mine. My Soul’s experience is yours.

And so you’ll know that the real “fun” begins after our 50 seconds of “enlightment” or (7 days, if you’ re in Samarpan), ran out and we have to come back to material world and live amongst ordinary people, deal with modern life’s every day stress and situations.And although living like at the Soul level is the most natural thing, we almost have to come back to basics and teach it to ourselves again (whatever age we are). Our spiritual experience then has to get rooted in the real life and stand the test of time. And that process of integration can seem quite tricky at times.

For the way this world currently is,it almost educates us out of our Souls. Many people live under the slogan “less for you is more for me” type of a thing, are quite disconnected and because of fear they act like sheep. Whether we like it or not we get influenced by our surroundings more then we’d like to think.

And it takes a real courage to live authenticaly at the Soul level, if it’s not what everyone around us does.

That’s were collectivity comes in. When we “hang out” with awekend people our spiritual progress happens efortlesly. It gives our Soul divine energy. And in that light the impossible becomes possible. What seemed an obstacle before does not seem to have any grip on us anymore.

In collectivity this magic happens, and I don’t really care how exactly it works, but I know it does. Just take a look at the light in peoples eyes from one of our pictures from St David’s reatreat and it becomes apparent.

There is this Grace when we get together at the Soul level and it has capacity to tranform a human being from within in most remarkable anmd unshakable ways.

Our own love is almost not enough. We need the whole ocean of it that is experienced in collectivity to disolve the influence of our ego and set us free to experience life as it’s inteded to be. Sacred.

There are certain limitations we have as individuals but collectivity gives our Soul that extra boost of energy to overcome everything!Therefor gone are the days of solitary meditation. Those brave ones who wish to go all the way-collectivity is the path! And the journey’s so much more fun when shared.

That’s why I love our retreats and get togethers. And that’s why I love the JCO sessions.

When it comes to the middle of the week and wether’s rubbish, and work’s manic and the world seems a bit less shiny then before-we connect at the soul level and it’s like “coming home”. Apart from the fact that we don’t even need to go anywhere anymore to experience this. I am so grateful for the modern technology and harworking friends who know how to work it, to make it possible for all of us to share that sacred space. We’re onto something really special and unique here.

And the only effort that’s required of us is just to stay tuned in.

Thank you everyone-you’re my joy and inspiration.

Will say goodbye with words from one of my most favourite poems. If Rumi would be around, he’d hang out with us in Samarpan.

“Out beyond the ideas of right and wrong doings
There is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the Soul lies on that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language even phrase each other
Does not make any sense anymore”.

All my love,

Anna xx

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