Relaxing into Being

"When practising meditation, I cannot abide in being for more than two hours. After that, I feel huge emptiness. How can I go further? Rupert says: ‘Why do you feel huge emptiness when you abide as being? Why not huge fullness? At any moment you can check – can I say from my experience now “I am”? The answer is always yes. You’re always having the experience of being. You don’t have to formally practise meditation to experience being. Formal meditation is just when you turn attention away from everything else to abide exclusively in being. But when you stop, you continue experiencing being, just no longer formally. Relax. Give yourself a break. Enjoy your life. Praying without ceasing means remaining as being throughout everyday life. You cannot concentrate on being – concentration is only for objects. Meditation as we understand it here is the relaxation of concentration, the subsidence of attention, not focusing. Replace your concentration with love of being.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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