The Dalai Lama in our daily reading says that there are stages in meditation; I think of them as rungs on a ladder and about half way up the ladder when you think you are doing ok, you must watch for laxity and excitement. The cure he says is in seeing them and refocussing on your object of meditation. This is helpful because laxity and excitement are exactly what happens: you get going, peace descends and then the great big brilliant thought comes, your version of the Higgs Bosun moment. In all it's glory, the perfect plan, the perfect cake, the perfect lesson, the perfect speech and now, the perfect blog. You know you shouldn't be thinking this thought just now but back it comes flagging up its complete brilliance and you stagger to the end of that meditation. BUT he says the cure is watching what is going on and refocussing on the object of meditation and the goal is calm abiding when the body and mind are clear and happy and content not to move. I have put the photograph of the cake below to remind myself that pride in cakes is often misplaced especially when one small grandson knows where the cake is and where you aren't and takes the opportunity of exercising his small and determined person to get on the stool and take great goudges out of the top of it! Thanks Archie for your acting as a philosophical opportunity!!!
The Dalai Lama in our daily reading says that there are stages in meditation; I think of them as rungs on a ladder and about half way up the ladder when you think you are doing ok, you must watch for laxity and excitement. The cure he says is in seeing them and refocussing on your object of meditation. This is helpful because laxity and excitement are exactly what happens: you get going, peace descends and then the great big brilliant thought comes, your version of the Higgs Bosun moment. In all it's glory, the perfect plan, the perfect cake, the perfect lesson, the perfect speech and now, the perfect blog. You know you shouldn't be thinking this thought just now but back it comes flagging up its complete brilliance and you stagger to the end of that meditation. BUT he says the cure is watching what is going on and refocussing on the object of meditation and the goal is calm abiding when the body and mind are clear and happy and content not to move. I have put the photograph of the cake below to remind myself that pride in cakes is often misplaced especially when one small grandson knows where the cake is and where you aren't and takes the opportunity of exercising his small and determined person to get on the stool and take great goudges out of the top of it! Thanks Archie for your acting as a philosophical opportunity!!!
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