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 29
A NECESSARY EXPERIENCE
When things go wrong, it is best to assume the experience is necessary.
The alternative is to enter a limbo-land of complaint, self-pity or negativity.
When things go wrong, our true self is developed at the expense of our imagining self – our imagining self who imagines outcomes, and then tries to ensure that they are so.
Our true self is trying to ensure nothing. Just living the unfolding.
Consider
Reflect back on yesterday or today.
Notice when an imagined outcome or hope was thwarted – and how you felt about it at the time.
Was there some sense of complaint, self-pity or negativity?
How do you feel about it now?
What seed of life has been sown?
Or does the earth still feel scorched?
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