This-essay is a7310123.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %MEDITATION 731012 The person who does NOT take out time to examine his life regularly exists in a life that is NOT worth living. By taking time out for meditation, the rush of regular tasks may be put into broader perspectives. This can NOT easily be done without slowing down. New vistas are NOT often found unless they are sought, and they are NOT often sought when "on the run." When one is "on the run" all the time, new questions rarely are asked. Life continues according to a pattern of unexamined assumptions set long ago, and made foolish by the passage of time. Without meditation one may become the victim of collusions which are cosmetic solutions to real problems and dilemmas. In meditation one may seek to become sensitive to channels of communication which may reveal the way out of what appear as can't win situations. When one is constantly on the run, one may be engaged in a cosmetic solution to the challenges of how to deal with finitude. By keeping the dominant focus of life narrow, one may avoid mutual awareness of beginnings and ends. But such a narrow focus does not serve as a sound basis for making major decisions and participating helpfully in wise political action. Meditation times are occasions for broadening the dominant focus of one's life. In meditation one may consider one's value structure and recent value judgments; and seek to put them into as broad a perspective as possible. In meditation one may seek to recognize the limitations of science, as well as its strengths. Through meditation one may find self trying new ways and understanding strange languages which were ignored while on the run. Self may seek to view familiar situations from new perspectives---in order to see them more fully, and perhaps as others see them from within their own complementary states of consciousness. Through meditation one may become more open to dialogue and all that may be learned through authentic meeting. Meditation is not a time to solve academic puzzles or even to fret over real problems. It is a time to put them all into broader complementary perspectives. Meditation is a time to be alone, but not quite. If the new questions of others be excluded, little that is new will enter life. Meditation is not a time of contention, but a time of seeking to profit from others' pointing to realities---of which self has previously been unaware. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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