A Version of An Experience

A version of an experience:

what I write here isn’t really an accurate description of an experience, most especially concerning meditation and making use of the mantra, reality is always much different, although in subtle ways, and words will always fail to capture the essence of the moment. But what I wish to do is to offer a version of an experience that’s already gone, inspired, and perhaps have you turn within to a present moment of your own, listening now to a silence shared between us.

and then, together, we’ll both know the reality of this moment.

in a way that words can never show.

the mantra is key, at least for this meditation, it’s a vibration of silence, personal, and offers us a return to the bare essence of who we are. It could easily be the breath as well, a soft focus of its passage, feeling its motion against a portion of skin, or the slow rhythm of the belly’s rise and fall. It doesn’t really matter, but for me, it’s the mantra, a faint idea whispered through my mind until there’s only silence. My preference is to give myself to this vibration, completely, and yet without effort or undue concentration, unattached to how it passes through my mind. It’s the mantra that does the work, carrying me to a field of present silence, and my role is to simply recall it, allowing myself to be led to more subtle…