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Same for me. Someone - I don't remember who - made the analogy that life is like a fast moving river where you're pulled along by the currents of your thoughts
by maroonblazer 8y ago
Same for me.
Someone - I don't remember who - made the analogy that life is like a fast moving river where you're pulled along by the currents of your thoughts, feelings & experiences. Meditation enables one to stand on the bank of the river and observe the current as opposed to being in the river and swept up by it.
I think a more accurate analogy is that you're always pulled into the river but meditation helps you get out of the river more quickly, stay on dry land a bit longer, before eventually being pulled back into the river again.
- scns 8y agoInteresting, reminds of Hermann Hesses Siddharta who found enlightenment after sitting on the bank of a river for some time.
- tshanmu 8y agoThe path he took to get to the river bank is equally important for him attaining enlightenment.
- asimovfan 8y ago"Tell me, dear sir, how you crossed over the flood." "I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place." "But how, dear sir, did you cross over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place?" "When I pushed forward, I was whirled about. When I stayed in place, I sank. And so I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place." [The devata:] At long last I see a brahman, totally unbound, who without pushing forward, without staying in place, has crossed over the entanglements of the world.