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Meditating on a Rose

posted by Deepak Chopra Mar 23, 2007 12:10 pm
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Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2005).

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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Skip Williams

WHAT?????

Kevin Acker

We are matter/energy the same as a rose. it is in us, and we in it. particles of knowing sub atomic thinking stuff.

Kristelyn Dumas

its a good way to meditate

Lisa Medina

I will apologize before I even ask this, but isn't that being egotistical? To suggest that you have so much power? That you hold all the keys, & that without you, nothing could exist on it's own? Science for example proves that dinosaurs existed before we did, not the other way around. So isn't it egotistical to suggest that we're the creators of "everything"?
I am completely new to this way of thinking, but am trying to open my mind, or rather, open it more fully. I embrace & except all races, religions & creeds. So I guess this is just the next step for me.

Gigi Oviedo-linares

Thank you !!!
we r just some kind of energy and we all are just one consciousness

Gigi Oviedo-linares

Thank you !!!

Lp Foong

It's a beautiful way to connect and to detach from form. Just pure energy sensing another pure energy. I get goosebumps simply with just the thought of it. Thank you.

Diane Wayne

This is beautiful, peacegiving, and expansive.
Thank you so much!
Peace,Love, & Music,
Diane

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Thank you Deepak. Thank you Gary, Alexandra and Carolyn.

Peter Maharajh

Everything is happening - "the 5th dimension" = probability

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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.

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