Osaka, Japan.
Midosuji-line (Underground)..
9:23 AM
It’s hot, too hot for spring..
Sweaty salarymen pour into crammed carriage, wiping their brows with their pocket handkerchieves..
Cute girls in their early 20s stare endlessly into their mobile devices..
Fingers moving at the speed of sound scrolling through all the latest scandals..
Unconscious comparisons running rife..
Babies scream in protest at the heat..
People cram in to fill every last cubic centimetre of space in the train carriage..
It’s chaos.
Beautiful insanity.
In the middle of all this I stand..
Being buffeted by bags as people shuffle on and off the train..
The Skyrim soundtrack playing in my headphones..
In a state of complete bliss.
I’ve been Meditating for 25 mins at this point..
Doing loving-kindness (or Metta) Meditation..
And my mind is in a beautifully collected state..
Everything is love. Everything is perfect. There is no path. Nothing to achieve.
The first 2 mins were “difficult”..
My mind was scattered..
But, it’s well-trained, and quickly obeyed my command.
"Enter a collected state with the feeling of love as your focus”
I state my intention, then completely let go..
"Yodoyabashi, Yodoyabashi-desu”
It’s my stop..
I get off the train..
My heart is wide open, everyone and everything looks so incredible lovable..
I make my way up the two flights of stairs and out into the fresh air..
As I’m walking to my destination..
And suddenly..
The “Leigh” drops away..
Any identification with the “content” of the field is gone..
All that’s left is the field itself..
There is no subject, no object, only the field..
All is one.
I can't reasonably say that the building in the distance is any more “me” than my little toe is..
Everything is immaculate, beautiful, perfect, whole.
My eyes automatically start to burn with tears as I’m walking..
But there’s no wish to wipe them away..
There’s wish to do anything..
This is the grand cosmic playground..
And the fabric of the reality of this playground is..
(Can you guess it?)
Love.
Everything is love.
This seems so incredibly obvious when in this state..
Not just that..
Anything other than being TOTALLY grounded in the NOW feels completely alien..
The realization dawns..
Any suffering, lack, discomfort or stress is simply because we’ve forgotten..
On a fundamental level..
What we really are.
These understandings were what I took from this experience.
The afterglow of entering this state for a few mins while on the way to work..
Shined through the whole rest of my week..
This is a state I find myself slipping into more and more as time goes by..
(Keep in mind - It’s just a state - Nothing to be clung on to)
And the realization that things are perfect, just as they are..
And all we need to do is get out of our own way to experience that..
Is incredibly liberating.
From this point, life becomes all about letting go and softening into sensations..
Untangling the pure awareness from the egoic attachments that bind us
And as you gradually let go..
And move out of fear and into love..
You experience ever deeper levels of peace..
I’d love to know about any experiences YOU’VE had of a similar nature.
Let me know below
The Mystical Experience..
Your snapshot of daily life illuminates the contrast between mindless suffering and exercising the freedom freely available to all, anytime, anywhere. May we all experience the obviousness of love. Thank you, brother.