What is Meditation?
It can be helpful to remember why we came to meditation in the first place. For many of us, anxiety and stress are big issues.
August 7, 2021
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Meditation
It can be helpful to remember why we came to meditation in the first place. For many of us, anxiety and stress are big issues.
Racing is what I did for a living. I raced to get to the swimming pool. I raced in the water. I raced to get my homework finished. I raced against my classmates for the best grade. When I sat down to rest, my thoughts raced. I watched fast paced movies, gorging on violence, sex, bodies crashing into each other, and the noise of gunfire. None of this was real, but it was a reflection of the reality of some parts of our world, certainly parts of my own mind, and so it felt real, and I felt connected to others through that “tele – vision.” Yet like Prince Siddhartha prior to seeing the four sights (a sick man, a senile man, a corpse and a sage), I knew there was something missing.
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