Quite a lesson on meditation and relaxation Eric. I have read it twice. I am not sure about the idea of 'willing relaxation'. It seems to me that relaxation would be more of an awareness. Perhaps it takes an act of will to relax? I find that i want to read it more. I want to digest it and make it part of my being as I do some other thoughts that are like little seeds that can manifest dreams and dimensions of reality if we nourish them. They become like seed thoughts. It is interesting how a thought can have so much power.
It looks like you were sipping on some sake yesterday! Here is the bowl of saki from 1/17/17
Thought draws the line of fate.
Bowl of Saki, January 17, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
As mind is naturally impressionable, that means that man is naturally impressionable too. Most often his illness, health, prosperity, failure, all depends upon the impressions on his mind. They say 'Lines of fate and death are on the head and palm,' but I would say that it is the impressions man has on his mind which decide his destiny.
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http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIII/XIII_5.htm...
One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.
~~~ "Githa I, 'Amaliyyat 5", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
