Capturing meditations

Meditation much like dreaming is an area that is often hard to bring information back from. And into the real world. The liminal space that is entered is a place of practice, release, letting go, and unstrapping the mind. When we allow ourselves to enter these spaces, we find the ineffability of those things that we hold so dear and yet we cannot explain. If we stop to capture those thoughts and perceptions, we never set them through to their end and we lose the thread and the emotional, spiritual, mental, and even physical release that meditation and dreaming can have. If we don’t allow that line to go through, then we miss the whole point of sitting our asses down in the first place. What a paradox.

We encounter this in our everyday activity through life as well. If I would like to learn something and capture the ideas of my life, I think “well, I should stop and write this down, puzzle this out, contemplate this very lesson in this very moment lest it fades into the ethers and I am stuck relearning it somewhere down the line. And surely this would mean that I am a loser and unthinking about how to better myself and others because I cannot tell you who I have become and why.” And if I do that, I don’t ever enact and live the life because all I have done is spent time trying to process and puzzle out its meaning and did not take the time to live it. And that is the ultimate shame and waste.

And here is the paradox, and it is beautiful. Here is the light and dark intertwining. And maybe all we are actually supposed to do here is accept the entire process of intangibility and write/capture what and when we can through daily practice, not allowing it to derail or interrupt our feeling, experience, and pure living of life, because it has a life of its very own to be lived as a through line – like right now as I write this and don’t focus on the other things that need to happen including my urge to pee from all of the morning coffee.

There is an urgency (not in a hurried way), and immediacy to pure living – of whatever life – that only can occur from moment to moment. And in the immediacy is where we will find the power to both live and capture the wisdom of life. So get up from your cushion and go take a whiz.