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
practise 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.
