The second foray into small wisdoms is Meditation. This is the place where we make the invitation to the Infinite Mind to lay some really good stuff on us, or perhaps I should say in us. There is some small effort needed here because meditation needs a quiet mind, a listening mind. In earlier-discussed prayer we are setting something into Mind. In meditation we are taking something out of Mind.
Lotus position...
We have probably all seen pictures of people meditating all folded up in an uncomfortable-looking lotus position, but this is not required. We can sit comfortably in a chair; we can walk, we can stand. All that is really needed is the alert posture and mind that awaits peacefully. As we meditate, that is, quiet the mind and let busy thoughts drain away as much as possible, we await what the Infinite Mind may have for us. We may be surprised because maybe a thought, an idea, an image may show up, or there may be …nothing. But do not confuse nothing with “no-thing” because something is always happening in the silence of the mind, and we may find changes or differences taking place in us over time.
More mentally stable...
One of the best reasons to meditate is for the increasing ability to become more mentally stable and less irritated by internal worries and external disturbances. It is what goes on within us that gives us power rather than what goes on outside us.
Duck on a june bug!
There is one caution I would offer. It is not a good idea to try to meditate if we are irritated or upset. When the mind is troubled and we try for the silence, sometimes we become a bit fragile, and the effort to meditate allows a subjective problem to rise up and leap upon us like a duck on a june bug! Enough said…..
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