Thursday, February 12, 2009

A Human Being. Not a Human Doing.

Meditation challenges my insect mind.

A few years ago, an experience in the Peruvian Amazon revealed the interconnectedness of all living things. Plants, animals, single celled organisms, we are all connected on an atomic level.

I always suspected this interconnectedness and am attracted to spiritual beliefs that tap into this as a universal truth.

So I started meditating.

I need a DVD to do it - with yoga poses, and a guide telling me to breathe and not to think and the occasional sound of waves or gongs chiming. But I'm doing it. Not the once a year painful vision quest when I sit down in the middle of the night in front of a burning candle and wait for the big revelation (never came), but a short, consistent meditating for folks with insect minds.

The whirring and clicking stops. The buzzing diminishes and I actually relax. I am not doing anything but breathing - yet I can check it off my list as a task completed. And what a task! Expanding consciousness to lose myself and blend into the universe.

The post meditation feeling is of peace, quiet and just being. By doing nothing, I accomplish quite a bit.