The Lazy Yogi

I don’t have anything conclusive about morning vs. night just yet. I’m still trying it out and haven’t been doing it long enough to see actual results or changes. I’ll be sure to share what I find out, though!

As for the high, it isn’t uncommon. But people get so focused on being high. Oh it’s a drug high, or oh it’s a natural high. People are always trying to go up high and avoid low. By nature being high creates a low. Again, this isn’t uncommon. In fact, it’s a stepping stone. 

The euphoria you feel is a stepping stone to peace. You learn from this euphoria how everything is benign, everything is love, and empty of true form other than your being. But euphoria doesn’t last. It’s  phase. People make the mistake of trying to chase the euphoria. Don’t. You want peace not bliss, remember that. 

Enjoy the euphoria and learn to see the world through that lens. When it goes, let go. Euphoria will come and go as it pleases on the spiritual path but don’t think of it as levels being attained because that would be an illusion. 

Just keep meditating and keep doing your thing. If good feelings come then wonderful. If bad feelings come then let them move through you like water. The dance of feeling and emotion will never become anything more than what it is. In meditation, you discover the peace of Being, which evades description. All we can do is point at it. 

Namaste.

Eh, the Ascension doesn’t happen in the future. It is always now. 

Perhaps there will be a change in the tides of the Illusion. Maybe it will cataclysmic and terrible. Or it could be inspiring and uplifting. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that the future will be any different than living right now, this moment. 

I can’t tell you about the future or the past with confidence, so 2012 is not on my radar. When it is in the present, when it is arriving, then maybe I’ll have some impressions. Right now I don’t feel anything from it. 

Namaste!

It brings awareness into what you are doing. This doesn’t mean that whenever you want to commune with Shiva you must smoke. It means that you may commune with Shiva whenever you are smoking.

For example, as you prepare a bowl, don’t be thinking about this or that. Arrange things carefully, because it is your sacrifice to the divine. All things that pass through fire are sacrifices to the divine, to eternity. They become ash, changeless. Have appreciation for the process.

When you smoke, you call ‘Bom Shankar!’ to get Shiva’s attention, to tell him you are smoking in his honor. When you exhale, you say ‘Bholenath’, which means Simple Lord. It is the name for Shiva when he is stoned. In other words, you are referring to yourself as a stoned Shiva while at the same time calling to Shiva himself. 

Then you just be. 

Again, I do not stress this as the way of communing with Shiva. It is just a way, an old way. True communion is possible at any moment, especially while sober. 

Namaste, brother. :)