Meditation & Wisdom
FROM CHAPTER TWELVE: MEDITATION & WISDOM
MEDITATION
Meditation itself is not mysterious, only its inner workings. Jeremy Taylor said, “Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.” Sitting in silence is one thing, but translating the language of Spirit is another. Meditation is an experience in and of the Unknown; the transition between meditation and outcome is where the mystery lies. But the transition happens.
The Path of Meditation is about going beyond the common mind and becoming the witness and the awareness. The path is about letting God plant the seeds that we are not aware of until harvest. The path is about realizing the body’s need for material food and the soul’s need for spiritual food. It is about using the mind as an instrument and being its master and not its slave. The Path of Meditation is the gateway to spiritual mastery, freedom, and enlightenment; not about the pursuit of some invisible imagined bliss. The Path is about seeing, watching, listening, non-attachment and being.
WISDOM
The path of wisdom can draw us to the paths of other wisdom seekers and teachers. We can be drawn to the wisdom of Jesus, Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Plotinus, Socrates, and Kabir. Wisdom is all around us in everything: in the movement of water, the currents of the winds and the waves, in the stillness of evening, but we have to be in touch and aware to sense it. Through awareness we become one with the wisdom all around us. Like the moth to the fire we are drawn, but not consumed. We enter the fire, but our sense of the self is not destroyed; instead it is expanded and inspirited by the true Self.
From the poem: Can You Reach For The End of Eternity?
“Can you bend around the circles?
Are you here to unlock the lock?
Can you laugh at destiny’s warning
By turning back the hands of the clock?”