The Art of Meditation and of Everyday Life

"In a recent essay you wrote, ‘The art of meditation is simply to be aware of being when experience is absent.’ Can you explain what you mean by this? Rupert says: ‘The ultimate meditation is simply the awareness of being in the absence of experience, or prior to experience, the pure experience “I am”. The ultimate meditation or prayer is to abide as that, without allowing your being to be mixed with the content of your thoughts, without allowing the “I am” to become “I am afraid”, or “I am agitated”, or I am lonely. Just the pure “I am”. The art of meditation is to abide in your being, the pure experience of being without paying attention to the content of experience. The art of everyday life is then to go back to the content of experience but to remain in touch with being. So, when we finish meditating, we don’t really finish meditating.’"

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

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