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 45
SILENCE, PLEASE
It is sometimes hard to discern the nature of a silence; there are so many different sorts. Is it a peaceful silence, for instance; or a hostile one? Is it a bored silence, or a riveted one? Is it a chosen silence; or one imposed by another? A silence of deep contentment; or a silence of despair, with all the crying and screaming done?
Sometimes it's a fearful silence, sometimes full of hope. Perhaps a confusing silence, which settles nothing; or a clarifying silence which makes something clear as day?
Consider
In one of his poems, Thomas Merton asks the question: "Whose silence are you?"
If you were to be quiet today, turning away from the heady stimulation of word and image: how would your silence feel?
Like the beginning of time, before anything existed?
Try for a truthful answer to the question: Whose silence are you?
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