That’s Just Me In Another Body

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I am really enjoying the exploration I call “that’s just me in another body” that I wrote about earlier. It started after I had been doing the Darshan practice for a while. When I am awake and conscious, I do the darshan practice when I become aware that I am judging someone. It is a simple practice of letting go of the judgment, without blaming yourself for having it, and then connecting your eyes with your heart and glancing with that light and love at the person you had been judging. Darshan is a wonderful gift the Masters give their satsangis, it is called seeing the Master face to face; seeing the divine. The Master looks out with total love. It is a wonderful experience, receiving the darshan of a Master.

We are not Masters in this sense, of course,  but we can access love too (so above, so below).  It is not an imitation. It is channeling love. You can do it with one person at a time but a master can do it with a thousand at one sitting! I am working to expand this practice to the point where forethought drops away. When I think of the Darshan, I am always reminded of the final phrase of Rumi’s poem No Room For Form in which he says:

Now, what shall we call this new sort of gazing house

that has opened in our town where people sit

quietly and pour out their glancing

like light, like answering?

That is definitely a description of the darshan, and it is my vision that we will all be opening “new sorts of gazing houses” like this.  Anyway, it is through this practice that I arrived at  the That’s Just Me In Another Body exploration.  The darshan became a doorway into this wonderful realization.

I don’t know about you, but I have spent so much of my life subtly, and not so subtly, judging others by action, appearance and manner. When we activate the  darshan, the act of connecting the eyes with heart, judgment is forced to drop away in order for us to enter the stream of love. Once there, we begin to realize the truth that we all share the same potentialities, and often the same behaviors and beliefs, both negative and positive. So, everyone is just me in another body.

I have merged both these practices into one practice. There is a word for this kind of work. No, it is not “love”,  although that is certainly central to the practice. It’s “freedom.”‘,’That’s Just Me In Another Body’,’I don’t know about you, but I have spent so much of my life subtly, and not so subtly, judging others by action, appearance and manner. When we activate the darshan, the act of connecting the eyes with heart, judgment is forced to drop away in order for us to enter the stream of love.