If you want
A good night’s sleep
Stay away from meditationA good meditation
Is like a homeless drunk
That won’t leave you alone
He wants to follow you home
Eat your food and drink your wine
Talking about nothing but himselfIf you want
A good night’s sleep
Stay away from meditationA good meditation
Is like a lonely old dog
Baying at the door
Until you let Him in
He jumps in your bed
And snores all nightIf you want
To sleep soundly
Stay away from meditation
There are many takes on meditation. In the U.S, one perspective is that meditation is a means to relax, to de-stress. We see many pop classes teaching this type of meditation, There are TV commercials that promote this type of image. There are many meditation CD’s available to help you relax and decompress.
There are many forms of deeper meditation that can increase your level of stress for a period of time. The intent of this type of meditation is not to bed down anxiety and pacify an overactive nervous system. This meditation is oriented toward probing into the one meditating.
- Who am I?
- What am I?
A good presentation on this type of meditation can be found in Adyashanti‘s – True Meditation.
A word of warning though, a single moment of awareness can awaken something in the soul – turning meditation into the hound of heaven.
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. – Benjamin Franklin
It is in the nature of profound things to clash and combine, to evolve from one another. Action is the very principle of life. – Antonin Artaud
Image by Phillip Williams
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