Meditation works. I have yet to see one person learn to meditate whose life was not changed by our practice. And the change always, always has been for the good.

Why, then, doesn't everyone embrace this meditation, without hesitation?

Change is not for sissies. Change can be scary. Can it be that to some misery and suffering actually are preferable to the unknown?

But isn't it all the unknown? Not one of us can predict at all how many days of life we have left. We can't know if we will be married tomorrow, make money tomorrow, win or lose love tomorrow. Our idea of non-change is an illusion. An illusion that can be kept in place only by denial, and denial that can be kept in place only by a refusal to grow and an insistence on ignoring what we know. And to meditate is to cease ignoring.

The Veda says that all change is progressive change. This is the way nature works. Evolution. To embrace change is to embrace the idea of evolution, to see ourselves as expressions of nature. As we meditate, more and more we release ourselves into the arms of nature, knowing that what nature has in store for us must, by definition, be greater than the plans we have for ourselves. Nature, God if you will, wants us to be happy, joyous and free. This is not a theory. It is a truth of nature that can be experienced.

Today I will open myself to not knowing. I will open myself to change.

Mule Deer in Snow, Sweetgrass County, Montana 

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