I've mentioned about the symbolism of the Buddha and how that can be such a metaphor for our posturing in being more present.  Are you smiling, are your hands open to all that is around you in such a joyful way.  It kind of represents that sense of presence and noticing what's really here right now.  The kinds of things you can experience when you do a direct experience meditation (see YouTube video), where you can get really in touch with the sounds and stillness and just what's here in this moment.  And yet that big belly that Buddha has is such a metaphor for really allowing all of these things that seem to come up as tightness, contraction, and overwhelming feelings.  It is as though the mind makes these unconscious associations, notices the threat and BOOM it seems to come up from deep in the belly and at our deepest core beliefs about who we 'think' we are. 

This vision of a  Buddha belly is always open and expanded and it is always allowing these things to come in go back out again without it coming all the way up into the mind and getting rattled about even a deeper sense of who I am and who I think I am. 

So one way of really looking at this too is the way we look at the yin and the yang symbol; they are both happening that the same time. There is the yin happening at the deeper level where the core insecurities can fly in and be triggered and then there is the yang level where it seems to be more expansive, open and free. Both experiences are equal, creating yourself as the ego and thinking that is who you are and then seeing the truth that you are much more than that - it's all here at the same time. 

It is just interesting to see these various symbols that have been with us for a long time and to look at how that relates to our presence and what we are doing in this moment! 

Love,

Karyn

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