Communicating This Understanding to the Incarcerated

"I work at a jail providing medical care. Is reconnecting to the ‘I am’ the ultimate remedy for addiction and the wounds I see there? How do I communicate this to people who may be too agitated to even sit still? Rupert says: ‘You can understand that going directly to being is the ultimate healing for that trauma, their pain, their sorrow, their addictive behaviours. But that doesn’t mean that you’re going to go into the jail and give a meditation like I gave this morning, because it would be almost certain to be out of reach for them. So, you have to go more slowly, take more progressive steps. You may have to do something to calm down their nervous system. Some people are so agitated that they couldn’t even sit still for a minute. So, you’d have to make them feel safe, make them trust you. Your job’s more difficult in a way. They’re probably predisposed against what you have to say. You’ll have to find skillful ways of opening the door. The most important thing is that you deeply feel their innocence, the purity of their being that has never been sullied or tarnished by anything they may have done. They will feel your attitude towards them.’"

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

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