The Way of Dispossession

“We are not meditating in order to get some sort of insight. In fact we are not meditating to gain any possession whatsoever. Now that is a very difficult concept to come to terms with because we are all brought up to be such materialists, such possessors, such controllers. To sit down and to voluntarily make ourselves poor, to dispossess ourselves, as we enter into the presence of God, is such a challenge. For many of us, especially at the beginning, it will seem that the time we spend in mediation is a complete and utter waste of time….[T]he essence of meditation is that we become absorbed in God, where we lose all sense of ourselves and find ourselves only in God.” From “Without Expectations” in The Hunger for Depth and Meaning: Learning to Meditate with John Main, ed. Peter Ng (Singapore: Medio Media, 2007), p. 112. Information: 732-681-6238 | GJRyan@wccm.org | www.WCCM.org | WCCM-CentralNJ.blogspot.com