MEDITATION

Meditation is witnessing ---
Uninvolved ---
Within and without ---
Watching the thoughts and feelings that flow and ebb through
Watching existence expanding, contracting and curving in on itself,
Watching the heart and its embracements,
Watching the mind in its machinations,
Watching every selfish world rotating
Each on its own axis,

Witnessing the knee-jerk reactions
Of our negative egos
And feeling-memories
(For what is feeling, other than memory?)
Watching ..... Without getting caught up.
And when we do get caught up,
Watching that, too, with detached interest.

Adopting the perspective of an allowing Witnesser
Helps create emotional distance from whatever is being witnessed.
You are less involved.


With distance, identification lessens,
Suffering lessens.
The witnesser is no longer in the thrall
Of that which is being witnessed.

As we cease to identify with the thoughts and feelings that flow through us
We become less neurotically reactive
And more responsive......
More centred.

Our ability to respond rather than react
Lies at the the core of Response-ability.