There’s a lot of talk about meditation and the need to quiet the mind, stop your thoughts and experience silence. But what does all that mean? What’s the big deal about a quiet mind? If you’ve never experienced it, it might sound a bit boring. But, when you quell the continuous opinion-making, judgment-issuing, comparison-leveling activity of your mental apparatus, there’s a world of delicious peace and well-being that awaits you. It’s something you have to experience to understand, but once you begin to feel the benefits…
You’re hooked.
Steve and Jarl
This is all true beyond any doubt. In my opinion, “all the talk about meditation and the need to quiet the mind …” shows that it is generally known and even felt.
There is a craving, almost a screaming out, for peace of mind from ourselves, from our civilization, from the noise to which we all contribute. It is inner work, all right. Walt Kelly famously, (through the mouth of Pogo) sixty years ago, in the absolute height of the cold war, “We have met the enemy; they are us.” That is great, good news, because that “us” is something we can deal with! How do we get serenity? Stop thinking about how to get serenity and be it. It’s either that or the ongoing alternative. Misery is optional. We cannot escape the availability of these choices.