In
the observation given by the mother with her meditative baby the lady
was able clearly to recognise and acknowledge the meditative awareness
with which the room was filled. This same awareness illuminated
her own inner chaos. She realised on reflection that at this
moment she had made the wrong choice - she fled the room with its
atmosphere of meditative awareness in order to re-arrange the
chaos. As if there were a choice between one or the other when
the evident truth was that both could exist together.
The baby meanwhile continued to exercise its limbs as babies do - in
random movements which eventually result in a more or less harmonious
coordination of the physical body with the energies flowing through it
and the mind directing the movements. The baby continued to
gurgle and practice sounds which would eventually translate into the
ability to communicate through speech, none of which in any way
disturbed the meditative awareness.
The difference between this meditative awareness and the practice of
meditation, between our essential, unchanging being and the
ever-changing circumstances of our lives, can be illustrated by a
number or analogies which will now be outlined. Only in meditative
awareness do we clearly see the ever-changing circumstances of our
lives. Without this clarity our perceptions are clouded by
preconceptions, misconceptions and prejudices, ideas, opinions and
beliefs. From time to time we are honest enough to recognise and
admit this in ourselves - then we may seek a remedy and the remedy will
ultimately be meditation.
