How We Mediate

How we meditate: 

the mantra is just another thought, and yet it's the one we give our preference too, returning to it as often as remembered, favored to the point that other thoughts soon fall away to an underlying silence. That's how we meditate, just a gentle repetition of words that hold no actual meaning, but simply selected for the value of their vibration, resonance, and how the mind responds to this with a subtle ease of listening, relaxing, and deeply so. It's not a chant, there's no altered state of consciousness other than a return to our natural state of mind, our true home, clear, open, and allowing. 

that's how we meditate. 

there are other methods of meditation, different means of calming the mind, or reaching insights of deep, profound meaning. But the mantra is the path of vibration, listening as it play through the mind in a gentle, easy fashion, until we slip within the space found between repetitions, the always present gap between the mantra and any other thought that passes. The gap is silence, pure, inviting - it's where we belong. Most importantly is that it's not something we achieve, it's not a place earned, nor reached for by our effort. 

meditation happens on its own. 

 our only role is to think the mantra, giving silent voice to its vibration, allowing the quiet nature of the mind to unfold with ease and wonder. That's how we mediate, or perhaps it's better said that that's how meditation happens, through the grace of simply listening, easily so, and with the mind responding, relaxing to the mantra's sound, resonating to its vibration. Meditation is a process, a journey from here to here again, and yet the quality of our presence is different now, more attuned to the frequency of others, to life, and how the world unfolds and everything flows in beauty, love, and wonder. Meditation shows us that we are this process, occurring now, always now, and all we need to do is notice, just notice and nothing more...

and that's how we meditate.

~

Peace, Eric