It’s speaking with one’s energy, sincerity and internal attention to the lake of being that underpins the life we lead.
It’s by turns a lens or a mirror, so we can more easily unify our objects of consciousness with the perceiver itself.
It’s a state of mind, but also not just the state, because meditation is like a river becoming aware of its fish thoughts (after Pamela Wilson).
It’s reaching a point where the natural subtle fountain of joy that we have within us finds a way to melt and seep through the cracks of stucco in our psyche, and streams through and communes through our body unimpeded.
It’s none of what I’m writing here, because one can’t describe it, only hint.
It’s a doorway to bliss, but first one may need to learn how to recognise that bliss, that it is already there.
It’s like the wise fish. Some fish went to see a wise fish, and asked him where they could find water, and they were told it is all around them, but went away disappointed.
Its a condition that some folk think is also a posture or an exercise, but for me it describes the impulse to do it, the resonant realigning with one’s perspective, with one’s connection to infinity, and the potential extraordinary joy, even if incredibly gentle, that can arise as a fountain in ways one cannot aniticipate.
It can be a communion with the natural intelligence behind everything.
It’s like waiting to see if a bus comes, except there is a waiting that is met by unexpected and new feelings and sensations of harmony. It also can be beneficial in ways one doesn’t immediately notice.
It’s a way to allow the natural connection of our surface self with the depth self, so that “everything feels all right”.
It’s both an intention and a result, a relinquishing of control and as gentle as possible a focusing of one’s deliberation.
It’s a device or doorway through which to access relief from stress or pre-occupation or turbulent feelings or emotions.
It’s a communion with the essence of music, with what lies behind the presence of music, or within a deeply meditational music.
It’s the outcome of a sensibility which loves to be in touch with beauty, with deep joy, and with allowing understanding and resolution.
It’s being more in touch with our breath and the use of our physical breath as a conduit to our deeper inhalation and exhalation of energy.
It’s a way to be more connected to being who we feel ourselves to be at root. Folk who meditate seem to need less time to themselves every day.
It’s a way to allow the part of ourself that connects to a love of nature to be more to the fore in our life generally.
It’s a perfect realm in which to inhabit daily to establish a confident and happy mountainous presence with which to embrace life’s challenges and rewards.