Day 12 - Butterfly meditation - Cocoon (2003)

While mindfully walking very early in the morning, in my meditation I saw a blue butterfly flying around me. I saw one of those by the creek another day, during a dayout climbing down the rocks with my family. This blue butterfly vision was so poweful and brought me an incredible sense of freedom. Not very far from where I had this vision in my meditation, I found on the ground a beautiful gift: a cobalt blue butterfly wing.
what a surprise! what a sign!

This wing I found indeed was broken, but still carried in itself a message of my vision. You can fly while you still have wings, soon they will also vanish, so use them while you still have them. impermanence is everywhere. Life is too short to waste it worrying or getting stuck on your problems. Use your problems instead, dear, as wind power for your wings. Let them fly!!!

There are wonderful meditation guides on butterflies, all meaning undertanding the value of freedom and transformation. In different stages, we are following our metamorphosis, hoping to fly free from our cocoons and catterpillar stages, crawling, stinging and devouring leaves, catterfillar suffers a lot. The dream of a butterfly is about liberation, flying free, drinking the sweet flower nectar with a delicate straw, teh god's cake! Time is our best friend in this transformation.
We just need to follow our heart, our instincts and intuition, find our cocoon. Have a clear vision, mindfulness, and be free from worries is number one step to crawl in a safe space of meditation and there we find our cocoon.
I chose to listen and dance Jack Johnson's Cocoon, as it brings the sad feeling we have when we have to let things go, even our broken hearts, our past, our confusion..., time to departure from sadness..., and be back to simplicity, and to know what we need, so little in fact as freedom.

I invite everybody to imagine this cozy cocoon that can free ourselves from our suffering, and help to transform us into a butterfly, let our wings guide each one of us through our innermost and amazing transformation.
enjoy these cocoons we have...

"Cocoon"

based on your smile
i’m betting all of this might be over soon
but you’re bound to win
because if i’m betting against you, i think i’d rather lose
but this is all that i have, so please
take what’s left of this heart, and use
please use only what you really need
you know i only have so little, so please
mend your broken heart and leave
i know it’s not your style
and i can tell by the way that you move it’s real real soon
but i’m on your side
and i don’t want to be your regret, i’d rather be your cocoon
but this is all that you have, so please
let me take what’s left of your heart, and i will use
i swear i’ll use only what i need
i know you only have so little, so please
let me mend my broken heart
you said this was all you have
and it’s all i need
but blah blah blah
because it fell apart
i guess it’s all you knew
and all i had
but now we have
only confused hearts
i guess all we have
is really all we need
so please
let’s take these broken hearts, and use
let’s use only what we really need
you know we only have so little, so please
take these broken hearts and leave