Just a short post today. I know I have been away for awhile. My wife and I have moved to Orgeon and the first few weeks have been busy settling in. The posts will be more regular now that we have done all that.
I had a thought earlier today while listening to J5's song "Freedom." While listening to the song I realized that a regular practice of meditation provides people with a sense of freedom. Freedom from old feelings, from no longer helpful habits. Freedom from identifying "you" with your job, or your family or your group of friends. As you meditate regularly, you even come to realize that "you" are not your thoughts.
Meditation develops a mental and emotional space inside yourself where you can realize that you are a person who has thoughts but you are not equal to your thoughts. You are not defined by your thoughts. You are the thing that is having the thoughts, that contains the thoughts but you are not the thoughts themselves. That is a subtle but powerful distinction and once you have that experience it is like a depth charge to your psyche. It sinks down low in your consciousness and sends out powerful shock waves that knock your insides around. But these shock waves don't kill you, they just make you realize who you really are. That's freedom!
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