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Meditating on a Rose

Meditating on a Rose

You are not in the world, the world is in you. Get closer to the real creator inside you by meditating on a rose.

To say that you are the creator isn’t the same as to say that your ego is. The ego will always remain attached to your personality, and certainly your personality doesn’t create everything around you. Creation doesn’t happen on that level.

Get a beautiful red rose and hold it in front of you. Inhale the fragrance and say to yourself, “Without me, this flower would have no fragrance.” Take in the glowing crimson color and say to yourself, “Without me, this flower would have no color.” Stroke the velvety petals and say to yourself, “Without me, this flower would have no texture.” Realize that if you subtract yourself from any sensation—sight, sound, touch, taste, smell—the rose would be nothing but atoms vibrating in a void.

Now consider the DNA that is inside each cell in the rose. Visualize the billions of atoms strung along a double helix and say to yourself, “My DNA is looking at the DNA in this flower. The experience is not an observer looking at an object. DNA in one form is looking at DNA in another form.”

Now see the DNA begin to shimmer and turn into invisible vibrations of energy. Say to yourself, “The rose has vanished into its primal energy. I have vanished into my primal energy. Now only one energy field is looking at another energy field.”

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Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2005). Copywright (c) 2005 by Deepak Chopra. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2005).

Deepak Chopra

Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Chopra is known as a prolific author of over 49 books with 12 best sellers on mind-body health, quantum mechanics, spirituality, and peace. A global force in the field of human empowerment, Dr. Chopra's books have been published in more than 35 languages with more than 20 million copies in print.

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8:12PM PDT on Mar 31, 2012

Great

5:42AM PST on Feb 22, 2012

beautiful!

7:37PM PST on Feb 17, 2012

Thank you! really wonderful..

10:27AM PST on Feb 9, 2012

So simple, yet so profound.

9:10PM PST on Feb 5, 2012

powerfully beautiful

6:45AM PST on Jan 2, 2012

What an ethereal experience.

1:24AM PST on Dec 29, 2011

nature.

7:01AM PST on Dec 7, 2011

thanks.

6:02AM PST on Nov 29, 2011

Thanks for the article

8:07PM PDT on Jun 20, 2011

That's perfectly said, I love that! I love the differentiation between the personality and the true self---one has issues, the other "is"---now it makes sense on a whole new level; I get it! Thank you!

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