Meditation Isn’t About Arriving Somewhere; You’re Already There!
A colloquialism favored in the state of Maine is that you can't get there from here, or - spoken as a Mainer "you can't get they-ah from he-ah." But, why talk about Maine when the topics of this blog are mindfulness, awareness and compassion at the bedside? (with bits of the mundane daily stuff tossed in for grins) The "from here" that we work with when beginning meditation is our ordinary - some might say deluded - mind. And, the "there" that we're working to achieve to some degree is a state free from delusions, free from distractions. The premise of [...]