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 22
ONE TIME ONLY
It's natural to separate time into various compartments – but is it true?
We look ahead to our day and say this will be good time, and this will be bad time; this will be difficult time, and this happy time; this time I will dread, and this time I will keenly anticipate.
We cut the cloth of time into different pieces. Some look good to us; some don't.
CONSIDER
Consider your pieces of time today.
The walk to the bus; sandwich on park bench; tasks to be done; making tea; cleaning the oven; playing squash; watching TV; shopping; writing e mails; playing with the children; the difficult meeting; sitting in traffic jam; singing in the shower – everything.
What do you dread? What do you anticipate? What are you numb to?
Our personality demands that we cut up time. "Compartmentalise!" it says.
Like a control freak, it slices up our day. "Dread this!" "Anticipate that!" – and we usually obey.
Which is a shame, really, because a) Our personality doesn't know anything, and b) There are no compartments other than in our imagination.
Time is one – a seamless robe which cannot be cut up; and all time is good.
Consider your unboundaried time today.
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