"Before you study meditation, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. While you are studying meditation, mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers; but once you attain enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and rivers are rivers".
It is imperative that you come to understand one thing and one thing only right now. We are using words to describe something that is beyond words. Alan Watts stated, "The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it".
If we are seeking to wrap our minds around this thing called, "meditation", to wrap it up in a box, to find a book that will map out a definitive portrait to which we can say, "Yes. That's it" then you are sorely misguided.
And that's the dig, you know. We want our Gods wrapped in neat little packages.
Sit down. Be quiet. Listen and experience.
Meditation ultimately goes nowhere,
ReplyDeleteas long as there is a goal.
Letting go of the goal,
one lets go of the greatest barrier to being.