This man is proud because the air is free

Poem:

If the benefits from meditation are beyond words and out of this world? Why am I trying to describe them? That is a good question. I still think the longer you go up the more you are on fire. Still I would hope my description overlaps with someone like Rumi or with someone of great erudition. It is my policy to replicate enlightenment daily. A few random hits is not acceptable and is unreliable. Two hours of meditation is only for the working married layman with children. A professional does five to six hours. He meditates almost as long of most people’s screen-time or watch TV. He is meditating while they sleep. Their night is his day. The sun is his moon and the moon is his sun. He gets up before the birds. His body has been put into silent mode a good part of the day. He practices the stillness hour five times a day. If you say you are connecting to God people just think it is words on paper. It is better to say you listen to the transcendental sound current which is his expression and is less heretical and is more ecumenical. These are supposed to be poems about annihilation. Thomas Merton might say: “ This man is proud because the air is free”. #annihilation #thomasmerton DS Poem October 17, 2018 Poems of Annihilation

My Cocoon tightens — Colors teaze (1099) Emily Dickinson My Cocoon tightens — Colors teaze —  I’m feeling for the Air —  A dim capacity for Wings Demeans the Dress I wear —  A power of Butterfly must be —  The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky —  So I must baffle at the Hint And cipher at the Sign And make much blunder, if at last I take the clue divine Pure Love, New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, page 286 “ And that is why it does not really make much sense to speak of all this as a high point of a series of degrees, and as something great by comparison with other experiences which are less great” page 285