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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Attune: Finding Unity with Others

Today, I had a spiritual experience at work.

I had a conversation with someone at work.  In conversation, I found I was judging them. 

At some point in the afternoon, I took a walk outside in the cold air.  Few people were walking around, so I took a seat somewhere secluded.

I sat and meditated on Yogananda.  I came to realize in this state, that the person I was juding came to my mind and I felt this thought: Do you realize you are one with this person?  What do you get by judging him?

I realized that judging this other person, was solidifing my eronious belief that I am seperate from others.  It divides one from another.  This division makes the ego feel "superior" and "better" than the other. 


On a gross level, I realized that I and this fellow shared similar desires, issues with the ego, frustrations, fears and so forth.  In that regard, we were the same.

In a more refined way, I contemplated that my spirit is not my body.  My consciousness is not just in the body.  If the expansion of my consciousness is infinite, then that of other people - including this person I judged, is also infinate in expansion.  As such, at some point, our consciousness' would be one.

I felt better connected to this person and others around me and went back to work feeling much better in general.

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