Morning Prayer
Once the body is settled, the next impediment to concentrated prayer is the wandering human mind. For Sarah Shaw as for Timothy Radcliffe, breathing is the starting point: we can manage our breathing consciously, but we can also relax and simply let breathing happen:
This is actually necessary for meditation, necessary if the mind is to be fully engaged in thought. It is often compared to a bee going to a flower: it knows where it want to go, but it also needs to circle around and get to know the flower again and again and again and again. When you repeat a chant or a little mantra, you’re simply allowing that very discursive, dispersed pasrt of the mind to come together, to unify, and to settle on one object. So I find chanting very helpful, because that part of my mind which is always engaged during the day – like a bee buzzing everywhere – has a chance to settle on just one flower. ~ Page 134
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Dinesh said:
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