Headless Way

This weekend has been varied. One of variations has been a meeting along with others, with Richard Lang. Richard had been invited to a Nandini Satsang to talk to us about the Headless Way. Now I have known about this way for a good number of years now and was grateful for this opportunity to meet him.
In this gathering we were given a number of exercises (shown on the web site) with awaken us to the headless state. There is much to this technique that I like. One is the simplicity, another is the immediacy of the experience. At the same time this can be one of the most challenging things about it. That is because we appear to so like complexity. In fact I think we need it to such a great extent that we will create it at times. Because without those distractions where would we be? At peace maybe. Could we really cope with that for any reasonable amount of time. Now when I am headless, then I may still have problems. However I have the space to allow them to be. I become the space big enough to hold everything - the void. So I end up with both states at the same time, the normal everyday small self and the infinite self.
Give these exercises a try and experience what you do. Its well worth it. You may find that not everyone works for you at a specific time, however it might at another.

Synchronicity

Synchronicity; I had a wonderfully disturbing series of them the other day when speaking to somebody. I went to an event in my home town called Breathe. It was a festival of green and alternative therapies. Felt out of place and no real connection with anything anybody was doing. It all felt very much a space I had been in, in the past and used to have a lot of energy for. However as I walked around I was approached by a woman selling one of those wonder-berry drinks, which I have to say was very nice and just the 30ml a day would not have been enough for me. Any way she starts asking questions which I feel a little awkward with. I wanted to come back with answers that to most people would be a little off the wall. However I did come out with them as I felt a little cornered and they were understood. I was obviously meant to be and we spent half an hour plus bouncing off each other. I like to feel we both gained from this, I certainly did. What surprised me was the amount of synchronicity that occurred in that time.
Synchronicity is one of those things that we are told that they are signs that you are on the right path. I certainly used to look out for them and feel better about where I was and what I was doing the more I had. However I now rarely experience them and it does not trouble me, because if am seeing them as more important than other parts of my life, I would be creating division that does not really exist. Where unity and oneness are the only true reality then if I am to make something more special than something else then I would loose sight of truth.