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Conversations
by Kevin Hull
August, 2004

The Inner Life 

For 25 years I have engaged in meditation practice. At times deeply, with energy and commitment, at times merely stealing moments from the distractions of my worldly desires and its mundane affairs.

Meditation has many levels: the concentration of














 
 

 

     

     

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mind; deep relaxation; profound silence and mystical experience.  I recommend it for everyone – with a single caveat. Be careful. Find a real teacher. Channels can be opened within us, for which we may not be prepared. It also acts as a mirror, showing us who we are and who we are not. Our motivations pass like clouds across the windows of our souls.

Meditation can be done practically anywhere, by anyone, and at any time. Focus is required. Surrender to one’s conception to the Infinite is the key. Determination is the human variable that can sustain us during strange experiences.

MEDITATION

Sitting in the center of emptiness,
inseparable from Being as Being,
traveling toward what? toward whom?

Mask after mask –
the masks of perception.

no    body    no    mind    no    expectations

An infinite sky of drifting clouds . . .
feeling in phenomenon, ungraspable truth.

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when I sleep I sleep
like the dead and when I wake
even a blank wall is dazzling!

It’s a shame that we waste so much time on ignoble pursuits, speaking words that dissipate before the breath was finished, leaving little or no impression. Gossip. Calumny. Words we use to bring speech down to a level as far from our true selves as possible.

Look deep into your dissatisfaction, into everything. Life is itself is meditation.  

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