What do you tune into?
You turn the knob, past the static, until you get a clear signal.
Until the voices are clear and understandable.
That’s when you listen up.
The music flows from the speakers like syrup.
The sensuality of listening.
You tune in, pay attention, get with it.
Not unlike what goes on between our ears?
The static is the sound our ego makes all day long.
Its a radio signal that we turn on in the morning and shut off at night.
We think it’s the only station there is, but…
Under this overwhelming static is a station with real programing.
But, we don’t generally listen to this real program as we allow it to be drowned out by the static sound our ego makes.
The fact that we shut off this static at night or when we take a nap, shows that it is there.
We turn it back on in the morning, it’s what wakes us up. Sometimes we wake up before this ego station starts broadcasting. Gotta get your head on! Sometimes it comes on, on it’s own, in the middle of the night, it’s called anxiety/insomnia.
So, if you can shut this station off, what is left in it’s place? The radio isn’t off (that would be dead), it’s still broadcasting but at a different frequency. And if you can shut this station off when you sleep, you can shut it off when you are awake.
What’s that like? How is it to be awake, alert, without static, clear vision, quiet minded, solid as a mountain and present to the moment. What is that experience like? How are you different when you can be in that state of mind? How do relate to others, to your surroundings, to the larger picture? How do you act when you are acting out of that state of mind?
Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Islam, Judaism, mindfulness training, meditation, prayer, every tradition has techniques and training to achieve the ability to quiet the ego and tune into our basic nature. That basic nature is there in everyone. Christ nature, Buddha nature, we all have it. Our ego is not what runs our aliveness. Below that is our basic nature and we can all tune into it.
