We find our way to the absolute through the relative.

Let us not seek the formless Absolute so vehemently that we miss the thousand doorways to commune with it all around us in relative form.

We might meditate for hours and perhaps get really good at it, lift off into all sorts of altered states of consciousness.. and yet truth is, we always come back to ordinary everyday reality.

Meditation is important yes. It helps us cultivate commitment, awareness, insight, resilience, stability, focus, stillness etc. However if it does not then translate and integrate into our way of being in the world, our relationships, our lived connected, embodied experience, then it is limited. And perhaps even becomes just another way of escaping, bypassing and trying to lift off and out all together.

Meditate AND be here now. Be alive. Taste your food. Feel your body breathe, move, have emotions, enjoy the colours the smells, the birds, the human heart, relationships and vulnerability, the capacity to love and express and listen.

These are where the rubber hits the road, the ways into recognising timelessness and oneness.