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                           %MEDITATION REGULAR TIME 870428

     A  regular time for meditation may become a time  for
repentance  from efforts to escape from a collusion.    On
the other hand a regular time for meditation may be a time
to  pray  earnestly for personal  and  communal  integrity
which   involve  the  escape  from  and/or  avoidance   of
collusive games of mutual self deception.

     In  a time for meditation we may focus in ways  which
put  us  in  touch  with our own  experiences  and  unique
potentialities.     We   may  also  read   literature   of
indoctrination  in a spirit which makes us victims of  the
exclusive   view  of  the  writers  of   the   literature.
Meditation  can  be  a  technocratic  technique  used   by
participants  in  a collusion to strengthen  the  bars  of
their mutual prison.   Meditation can also be an  occasion
for authentic prayers for integration and reconciliation.

     Through   meditation   our  misleading   perceptions,
ideals, values, concepts, assumptions, attitudes, etc. may
be  examined  without  the  pressure  of  others   seeking
conformity  to  their particular conceptions and  desires.
Meditation can be an escape from others'  efforts to be in
control.  For  it to be creative in these ways it must not
be  under  the control of others;  whether through  direct
coercion or internalized directives  which are in conflict
with  the ground of one's own being a unique and  creative
person.

     Meditation  is  not  a  time  for  argumentation  and
conflict.   Meditation is not a time for contests over who
shall  have  control;   it is a time to find  the  way  to
transcend contests over having control.   Meditation is  a
time to pray for integrity for persons and communities;  a
time  for reconciliation of opposing views,  not a time to
determine which opposing view shall win a contest over who
shall be in control.

     Truth is not found in exclusivity, but in integration
of  all  inclusive  insights.   Meditation is  a  time  to
consider  ways to become more honest and inclusive,  not a
time  for determination of who shall be included among the
favored.

     The  rewards of meditation are personal and  communal
integrity; not admission to the exclusive club of the most
favored and most powerful.   No person can truly reward or
punish  people for what they do in meditation,   for  true
meditation transcends the world  of control which uses and
abuses through rewards and punishments.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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