So why fuss with meditation?

So why meditate?

To train yourself, body and mind, to be STILL.

Why be still?

So you can LISTEN.

Rumi says, “What you seek is seeking you”. This is not some magical, spiritual mumbo-jumbo… it’s actually life.

All of life’s answers and inspirations are out there. But you can’t hear them if you’re unable to be still.

Truth, inspiration, clear sight is like a low hum… always present, always going… but the noise in your mind and in your environment drowns it out. In that hum are all the answers and prospects you seek! Your own truth and the clear view of life is right there. We waste so much precious time avoiding/escaping … we analyze, fuss, make drama, all noise, noise, noise… when whatever you’re really looking for is in that ever-full silence. Every moment. It’s always there…

Sitting still, what you need will come to you. Not as a weird law of attraction or some other out-of-world experience, but because you will actually see that it’s there anyway. It’s always there! You just need to train yourself to quiet the noise and really listen… My teacher put it so beautifully: It’s like a rare, exotic bird, that knows everything and you’re trying to capture it… the more you flail around, the more it will fly away… if you sit still, it will visit you with more ease a few times… the more and more you establish the stillness, it will finally have a sturdy place on which to land and perch. That bird is YOU. It’s your attention, it’s your truth… sit still and just allow… allow for the trees to shuffle and the breath to move, and the answer to whatever you’re ‘figuring out’ will be in the song of distant birds.

Silence and community… at the Zen Center Regensburg

You can read more of Anetta’s reflections in her blog, Freedom in Awareness