Ripples and the Mind Stuff
The world is in a constant state of flux or change. The ripples of time and life affect us on many levels. We learn in yoga the “mind stuff” flows in these ripples. The stuff of the mind is our awareness, our thoughts that reverberate to and fro. Imagine dropping a stone into still waters. Watch how small it begins and as it expands and lifts, you can visualize the initial circle becoming many, working it’s way to the shore. Once there, you can see that it builds with force and maybe so much that it crashes only to reverse and begin moving fro again and again. So many ripples equal a larger wave and before long you can have many ripples and waves moving in so many directions. Confusion ensues. This is when the mind is full of clutter or what some refer to as the “chattering monkey”. The meditative mind practices of observing an individual ripple without attachment are the trick. Just to watch, imagining you are a tiny boat caught in the wave is a scary feeling,