There is no reason to believe that the
baby was any different to any other. The very qualities of
uninhibited, spacious joyfulness that we would commonly attribute to
meditation is what also attracts people in the new-born babe.
Hence the insistence, in all traditions, on being "born again",
returning to the state of childlike innocence. Throughout this
topic we will return to this theme again and again. Meditation,
or meditative awareness, is our inherent, natural birthright. It
is the fullness of awareness which illuminates our essential, timeless
Being.
Furthermore, although, like Esau the Hairy Hunter, we sell this
precious birthright for a "mess of pottage", in truth, it never goes
away from us. To coin a phrase, "in meditative awareness we live
and move and have our being" whether we are aware of it or not.
From this arises our longing for peace, for space in our lives, for
freedom from stress, limitation and isolation and eventually the search
for all these things through the practice of meditation in some form or
other.
