Meditation for Thursday 22nd August 2024
All of us have ideas and hopes on how our meditation should be.
It’s natural for us to prefer order over disorder, calm over anxiety, and comfort over pain.
We wouldn’t practice meditation if we didn’t have some hope that it could provide relief from stress, turmoil and suffering.
For those who practice with a religious or spiritual motivation there’s the additional desire that meditation will enrich the spiritual journey.
Concepts about what a ‘good’ meditation is are not necessarily a problem, as long as we recognize them simply as concepts; they are not necessarily correct and genuine.
In meditation we make the effort to allow our expectations about meditation to ‘be’, in just the same way that we allow everything else in our experience to surface and elapse. We don’t hold onto our expectations nor do we try to get rid of them.
It’s important to relax and enjoy the experience of meditation even on those occasions when we feel that our concentration is imperfect.
Meditation
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