August 3, 2023
A great meditation technique to enrich your positive experiences both within and elsewhere is to say ‘yesss’ to every opportunity. However, a couple things to throw in on the experience is to: 1. expect nothing and, 2. Never overlook the negative! Life is always in the moment, and that means an opportunity to react or respond in the affirmative without ignoring the negative, and even when saying ‘yes’ to the negative is an opportunity to choose the best way to express it.
The ‘yesss’ is one of my special meditation techniques I picked up from my favorite Indian mystic, called the ‘Sacred Yes’. It’s always an opportunity to use one of the best spiritual techniques called ‘skillful means’. ‘Skillful means’ is to use the most affirmative option to any situation with consciousness, or it may be already automatic in the ‘unconscious’, possibly from once making it a natural decision going back to childhood.
While in NYC, and my 20 Years in corporate sales, I learned in the beginning that prospects for anything are not necessarily those who can buy, and can ‘say yes’. Most can only say no, however many could say yes to who ‘could’ make a ‘yes decision’! Everyone at a company or firm can say yes to the right question used ‘skillfully’ starting with the receptionist and the right question like, ”is there someone who ‘buys’ this service or product, and could you see if they have time to visit!”. They, of course, will say yes to both questions. If they couldn’t see me, ‘May I leave my business card’? She’ll say ‘yes’. Get others saying yes as much as possible too – remember ‘skillful means’! In a sense, it’s a mantra meditation technique. Always look to elicit a ‘yes’ in some way.
One needs a great yea-saying heart. And the yes has to be so total that it can contain the no in itself. The light has to be so total that darkness becomes just a part of it. Life has to be so total that death becomes just an episode in it. And when one can say the great yes to all that is – to the darkness, to the light, to the agonies of life and to the ecstasies of life, to the body and to the soul, to the earth and to the sky – when one can say yes to all that is, it becomes a ‘sacred yes’.
Saying yes to everything may be an art in remembering to include it in every interaction creating an inner and outer ‘vibration’ that spreads to other interactions with you, but it’s an art that creates ‘second nature or instinct’ responses. Accepting challenging interactions with the use of ‘skillful means’ to say yesss will make life experiences more joyful, fun, and just more acceptable. It’ll become like a ‘love puzzle’ that becomes an art to unlock the positive within you and others. One day not thinking of how to say ‘yes’ will be transcended to a natural way, even a silent yesss!
Arhata~
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