Member-only story
Meditation
How To Make Friends With Your Mind.
Picture an empty room. Large. Square. The walls, floor and ceiling are all a crisp white. There are no doors. No windows. No decorations of any kind. The room is illuminated somehow but you can’t figure out where the light is coming from. Perhaps the walls themselves.
You are standing in the middle of this room. Or sitting if you’d prefer. You’re happy either way. You’re warm, comfortable, calm. The stillness, far from making you restless, is calming. You are totally at peace.
Life continues like this for nine months and it never once occurs to you that anything should be any different. Nothing is lacking. Nothing is superfluous.
Then, one day, without the slightest warning, 50 wild, hungry, razor-clawed cats are dumped into the room with you. They scramble around, hissing and scratching at you, the walls and each other. The blissful silence has been broken, seemingly never to return. The cats look at you accusingly. They, like you, are pissed.
Welcome to your mind.
Your mind is something like this. You are the person in the centre. Your thoughts and feelings are the cats. There is no escape. You know it must be possible for your mind…
