“The trees are talking to me... am I crazy?”

Meditation can come in the form of many different things. For me, it is often from yoga, but for some people it may be jujitsu, chess, music, any time where you can be in a space where you can activate peace and revelations come to you; downloads from the universe come to you.

That is meditation.

I like when Mooji says everything can be satsang. Satsang is the gathering, when you gather to commune with other people in a space and meditate. That specific space can be referred to as satsang. He says everything can be satsang; walking can be satsang, living can be satsang, laughing can be satsang.

As I’m walking through a beautiful park. It has this beautiful river next to it. It brings to mind a conversation I had with a friend; in that conversation it was us sharing our testimonies. I shared mine, they shared theirs, and so many things were brought up. First, in sitting when listening to them, because we were partially sitting in a river, I was taking the form of an intent listener, and after a while, once I found a comfortable position (enough to actually listen), I genuinely and thoroughly enjoyed listening to this person. And they had beautiful things to say. They spoke without interruption for nearly 3 hours.

In that space of patience there was this revelation of,

“There is no time.”

Even though there are moments progressing, there is no space of active time in the way that we think about it. It was me absorbing what they had to say, and being patient.

At first I was listening, then my body was uncomfortable, I kept switching positions, I was very aware of my body and the water as we were sitting in a river, and them speaking, and my patience started to run thin, especially being a millennial in this age of short attention spans. But once I gave my brain the space to stop thinking about these other things and let go, and be in the moment, I so thoroughly enjoyed the conversation, and what actually happened is I grew my patience to a whole different degree. People say have patience but you need to be put in situations that extend past your patience in order to practice new patience.

Only was I able to grow my patience, my listening, my stillness, my skills of observation (and I am saying the word ‘my’ a lot, because this is from my lens of observation but I am saying this to share that this can be achieved by you too). When you are in a space of total gratitude it’s not about what you gave to the other person but is what is shared with you.

When there is the opportunity for someone to give you a tool, remember it is you that is doing the work, it is not the other person.

They may be the vessel, they may be the tool, they may have the knowledge, but it is not them, because what happens is (which is the kicker) when you start looking towards the tool as the necessity to bring about a certain feeling, that’s where obsession comes from, that’s were addiction comes from. At the end of the day you want to feel activated and alive and vivacious and if you are constantly going to a specific source to get it, and that source is no longer in your presence, you no longer feel it, you have learned nothing from what they had to say to begin with.

Reminding you that this lesson comes in a time of me walking through a beautiful park, and the beautiful river nearby. If I went to the river and was bathed in the river and healed from the river, and left, then was pining for the river again, I learn nothing from the river. I learned nothing from the peace of the forest. And so, when you find a source of beauty and light and information, take it, and activate your self with it, don’t run the source dry, that is selfish, and that is where dependency comes from.

Have you ever been in a dependent relationship, and I do not mean child to parent, but I mean you were dependent on another person for your happiness, for your needs, for your financial stability, and they did not provide it? How did you feel in that moment? Often people will say they felt unhappy, or frustrated, or angry, or sad, or lacking of self-worth because that person was not able to provide a need that they could not give you in the first place. This sort of self awareness and love comes from you.

Other sources are just that. They are sources that can be taken from, learned from, and co- created with, but you also have power in it, because, if you do not look at the source as just a source, you will not get any information from it, you will abuse it. Remember how powerful you are, be empowered when someone tells you something new and you become enlightened. That is you doing the work your self.