“Meditation is never one thing; you’ll experience moments of peace, moments of sadness, moments of joy, moments of anger, moments of sleepiness. The terrain changes constantly, but we tend to solidify it around the negative: “This painful experience is going to last the rest of my life.” The tendency to fixate on the negative is something we can approach mindfully; we can notice it, name it, observe it, test it, and dispel it, using the skills we learn in practice.”
-Sharon Salzberg, from “Sticking With It” ( Tricycle.com)
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The terrain changes constantly,as it always does on the material plane.Meditation allows us the opportunity to become the observer of the terrain, and the changes in the terrain, without adding meaning to those changes. All is how it is and that is all it is, even the “peacefulness one seems to achieve in meditation is an interpretation of the terrain in that moment.
Hi Herb,
Very, very true!