Wisdom Mode

This week’s words are taken from the book, Awakening Through Love, by my teacher, John Makransky.

Meditations of wisdom and love are not for the purpose of making isolated, inherently sinful persons into something different. Rather, such meditations uncover the fact that we are closely connected to all others and that our inherent nature, the very essence of our minds, is always primordially good, prior to self-centered thoughts of “good” and “evil.”

A tremendous force of love and wisdom has been hidden within us, obstructed by momentary (but almost continuous) chains of ego clinging thought and emotion. Energies of love and pure awareness have been distorted by those tendencies into our self-centered, deluded emotions. Practices of love and wisdom from Buddhist traditions cut through self-centeredness and purify emotional energies into enlightened powers of insight and love that can inspire many others. We take up our responsibility to self and others first by taking real measures to awaken that enlightened potential, as in the meditation that follows.

As we enter into the meditation, it is critical to remember that we are not struggling to become something we are not. We are learning to cooperate with what we always were. We enter into the meditation in that spirit – following instructions carefully so as to cooperate with the tremendous force of good within us that has been waiting to emerge.