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 49
KNOWING EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Some people feel that if they just know a little bit more, then everything will be sorted, explained – and they'll somehow be changed.
This is not true, obviously; because knowing things doesn't change us at all. Hitler knew a great deal, as did Ivan the Terrible; and many other tin-pot tyrants. Together, they could probably have made a very good pub quiz team.
What does change people is when they stop exploiting others, and start contemplating them; when they look at people not as targets to be hit, objects to use or problems to solve; but as mysteries to reflect on.
Something of a revolution, I think you'll agree.
Imagine
You're with them now, but who?
Someone very close, maybe? Or more of an acquaintance or work colleague?
Look at them not in your habitual manner, but in a way both fresh and clean.
You cannot help them.
You cannot use them.
You cannot criticise them.
Only contemplate.
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