May 2017

Mayil eNieuws

Dearest eNews readers,

This month's meditation text is taken from the latest book. It's an example of how to deal with the tricky problem of battling with circumstances, something which can really spoil your life. A simple, great way of attaining calm... there's nothing I could add to it. Try it out for yourself.

I would like to tell you about something very ordinary, about my efforts to bring some order in the chaos of the house, under the motto: "throw it out and store it away" or else "less is more".  Since over a year now I've been under the spell of a Japanese tidying up guru who resembles a gracious elf. Slowly it's starting to dawn on me what she is talking about. By simply and soberly asking myself these questions about each thing: "Do I want to keep this? Does it make me happy, or do I want to get rid of it?", I've mainly discovered things within myself. At first I tried to keep my distance: "No, no... I'll just do it and be done with it in a few days, or weeks, or months... it will be fine." Eventually, by playing the game honestly, I ended up in myself.  A passage from one of Master Morya's messages surfaced, which I had forgotten: "What is important to you and what isn't?" I couldn't but appeal to my heart and look at myself; pretty intense! By grappling with a lifetime's amount of belongings I discovered, rediscovered what is important to me and what isn't. And do I want to retain that insight? Does it make me happy? And do I want to dwell on that for a moment, standing between past and future as it were? Yes, it makes me happy! eRegards from Lydia

Meditation for the full moon of 10th May 2017 

Master Morya, 

"It is good to be calm in life, not to worry, not to feel anxious or fearful, or to feel a certain discontentment.  

When you have the feeling of being engaged in a battle with the circumstances around you, you should first of all try to create a calmness in your life so that you can actually see. Don't immediately think: "Yes, I know there are certain things which aren't good", and let it go at that. No, you should be able to come to the insight: "How can I be open? How can I make it into something that is important in my life?" 

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If you can focus your thoughts, learn to focus them, you can then use them like a torch to shed light on a particular problem. Suppose you are confused about what other people are saying, then you can learn not to be confused and to focus your attention on that little problem: "What did they say and what did I answer?" If you can think about this, without having to think about everything but only about this little issue, then you shine your inner light on it; then you bring to light, as it were, this trust of: "I'm sure to find a solution to this little problem; next time I will surely know what I should say, what will be the good thing to say. Not what the other expects me to say, not that, but rather: what should I say under these circumstances? How can I find my own joy, so that when I say something I can later feel happy that I said it?" 

This can be a difficult thing, a difficult little facet of life, which afterwards gives you the feeling that you have indeed become calm and that your thoughts have also become calm, precisely because of this."

Meester Morya

Master Morya

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Morya Kracht 6: Thuis in je eigen leven
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