Meditation and Prison

You may have heard of the Prison Phoenix Trust which does marvellous work  offering prisoners meditation and yoga.  We think this is a marvel, those poor prisoners but we probably don't realise that we are also likely to be in a prison but one of our own making.  It has some windows, good deeds,  so we look out and don't realise that we are stuck! We just like those walls, they are hung with our favourite things, our old coat, our i pad, our photographs, all things which give us comfort and identity.  Meditation, although it seems like a discipline allows us to practise an exit route, our own heroic tunnelling out of Colditz, but each time we turn to our mantra or our chosen focus of meditation, we make inroads into the walls.  The curious thing is that that is what we are really here for, we're here to find our way to freedom.