In meditation, we enter a more interior, reflective, and transcendent way of being; temporarily suspending our usual temporal way of experiencing. While we yearn for transformation, knowing it to be the way we awaken to our eternal oneness with God, the process is at times utterly difficult.
Christ lived just like us, a human being who freely entered into the hiding place of death to emerge, deathless, filled with light and life, completely transformed. We know that in following Christ we experience the same thing (2 Corinthians 5:17).
In meditation, our ego-dependent consciousness is momentarily suspended. Our own ego-based sense of ourselves is afraid to open to unknown depths, transcending its circle of influence and control. Surrendering ourselves to something as radical as a complete metamorphosis of awareness itself is too great a risk. The possibility of realizing a life that is at once God’s and our own is beyond what we can comprehend.
Sitting in meditation is akin to taking the little child of our ego self off to school, where we must learn to die to our illusions. In meditation, we learn to wait patiently and compassionately until we are ready to take steps into a deeper realization of oneness with God. In fact, meditation is true prayer – sharing one's intimate thoughts and feelings with God, on a spiritual level.
This is how we can be present to the self-transforming process in which, little by little, breath by breath, love dissolves our illusions and fears that were born of our false sense of separation from the infinite love that is our very life.
Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray (surrender intimately and spiritually your thoughts and feelings) to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.”
