How Meditation Regulates Our Feelings So That We Might Hope
Our tradition tells us that meditation purifies the heart of these dragons, lions, and poisonous beats: this fear, anxiety, anger, grief, and the hopelessness that can result.
Andrew McAlister Risking Words
Our tradition tells us that meditation purifies the heart of these dragons, lions, and poisonous beats: this fear, anxiety, anger, grief, and the hopelessness that can result.
Many see the soulful way of Australia’s First Nations peoples as a prophetic call to the rest of us to live our own lives more soulfully and less egoically. This is also the call at the heart of Christianity.
The very first day I sat on the bank, with my back against a River Oak, I saw a Platypus. It surfaced, swam around for a moment or two, before diving out of sight. Country was saying hello. I felt very welcome.
We are committed to being divinised into a unique Love-expression on Earth. Noticing, observing, attending to anything else but the mantra is counter to this divinising pilgrimage as we meditate.
John Main often taught about the importance of gentleness during meditation. While speaking about saying the mantra he would say “only the smallest effort is required”. Also, in asking us to attend to the mantra, he would also say “ignore everything else”.