Before meditation there was mindless activity. We followed the herd without even knowing that we were following the herd. Actually, we were just doing what those around us seemed to be doing; eating, sleeping, and working at mindless activities. But, so was everyone else, or where they?
We never did get to see everyone else, but most everyone we knew seemed to be living a life that they had been living for almost as long as they had been living.
Then came meditiation and we, or some of us, learned to sit still and relax into mindless inactivity. Some sat longer than did other, and yet it was only a transitional stage in our mental development, as surely as every stage might be, if we let it become as such.
Taking time out from mindless activity to engage in mindless inactivity does not, in any way, prepare us to go much beyond mindlessness.
So, what’s the answer, in our age, of moving beyond past restrictions? Perhaps, bringing directed activity into a relaxed mind?
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