How to use the meditations
1. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.
2. Read through the whole meditation a few times, then put it down.
3. Sit in a position both comfortable and alert.
4. Allow the meditation 10 minutes or so in your imagination. Do not give up before this time; stay with it.
5. Allow another 10 minutes for recording what happened. Allow events to develop as you record. |
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MEDITATION 21
A POINTLESS EXERCISE
Usually, our thinking focuses on a particular issue – and obsesses about it.
We then change focus, and obsess about another issue. And then another.
This might all happen quite quickly; we do get through a lot of thoughts.
Hoppity-hop goes our thinking, jumping from one point to another to another.
This meditation is not about the issues we love to think about – but about the space between them.
For in this space is a different sense; fresh awareness of how things truly are.
CONSIDER
Here are two points.
Focus on one. Then focus on another.
Now consider them simultaneously.
This tends to be impossible.
Our obsession with one particular point collapses – for we cannot focus on each at the same time.
Instead, as we try, we become aware only of the holding space between the points.
Instead of contemplating the particular, we contemplate the whole.
It is a different sort of consciousness; making us a different sort of person.
For now.
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