What people avoid in meditation traditions ( Universally) Its like really really needing to lose weight because being fat is killing you . REFLECTIONS on the UNKNOWABLE TK = Thomas Keating RA: When people are sitting in centering prayer, and they enter a deeply restful state and some of this kind of repressed negativity or conflict begins to bubble up, can they expect to experience negative emotions, anger, fear, sadness? TK: That’s exactly what they experience. RA: Turbulence? TK: Whatever they repressed. RA: it’s got to come out. TK: It needs to come out in order for the full capacities of the positive energies to function. These are faculties of grace like love, compassion, forgiveness, understanding, the inclination to serve others, and knowing how to listen. All of these capacities buried under the load of our neglect or whatever upset us begin to thrive. I don’t say negative thoughts and afflictive emotions are suddenly all taken away. But they won’t blow you away the way they used to. If you keep doing this practice, you will be attracted to practices for daily life and also perhaps lengthen the time that you give to just sitting, waiting, listening, receptivity, and alert passivity. All these things are not very congenial to contemporary lifestyles. So they have to be learned. But the body and the human organism are completely prepared for this kind of holistic health and will revive, and you’ll discover that you have the capacity for the unfolding of the contemplative journey within you. You don’t have to try hard to do it, because it is basically a gift. Let it happen.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:06:11 +0000
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