Preference

My preference is the mantra :

my preference is the mantra and it’s easy, ever more subtle vibration that seems lead me to a deeper stillness — and yet thoughts occur, my attention drawn to other sounds, and the mantra will sometimes go unnoticed for a certain length of time. But I gently return to the preference of the mantra, again giving it my present favor, no effort to correct the mind of it’s activities, just easily coming back to the mantra in its own natural pattern and rhythm, whatever pace it seeks to hold.

and that’s my meditation…simply a preference for the mantra.

it’s often believed that meditation is a rarefied position, one held without thought, and that only monks and yogi’s ever achieve a complete sense of stillness. But the truth is that the mind is given to motion, spacious and allowing, and thoughts are always passing. That’s the nature of the mind — and the goal of meditation, if there really is a goal, isn’t to bypass this nature but to simply notice how thoughts belong as motion, never static, and that with their passing there remains an every present silence that allows for their existence. That’s the deeper nature of the mind, silence, restful by its very presence, and no effort is ever required to reach this, always being present as the reality of who we really are.