What We Will Find

As we begin the interior journey in meditation, fears arise in anticipation of what we will find, how truly weak or sad or uncomprehending we really are.  Also, we start to detach from those external attachments felt so necessary for our daily sustenance and wellbeing.  

Most of all, we become detached from the ‘old self” that is self-absorbed or the self that stays in a comfortable, but often toxic, self-loathing.  The initial step into the unknown is frightening because it is alien to most of our earthly experiences. 

Meditation is a quest for transformation of self from a material, self-centered individual into a spiritual being. 

This newly formed spiritual being, while in meditation, is set adrift from the complex, material world as we know it.  

As meditation deepens, we experience a certain sense of timelessness and centeredness with the universe and the natural order. We enter a state of “mindfulness” in which we begin to experience the joy of the present and the fullness of life as it was created by the Author of life. 

It is a state of being in which all images and earthly desires eventually fade.  It is a harmonious state where one is aware of everything and nothing all at once.  It is a state of “inner being” which is at once attached to all and detached from all.  

We are all, at the center, spiritual beings and, therefore secular meditation can also tap into the wellspring of our being.  

However, we/have the choice of God-centered meditation that can eventually lead to contemplation.  Contemplation is the experience of the infused–Spirit of God, as both creator and guiding force in our lives.

Before we discuss contemplation, it may be well to consider the obstacles to finding the “true-self”