#10 – Detachment

Detachment in meditation means a turning away from your own life situation.  It is detachment from self-pre-occupation and self-indulgence.  Detachment means not using other people for our own events.  Detachment is liberation from the anxiety we have about our own survival of ourselves.  This detachment from self-centeredness liberates us for love.  We are no longer dominated by our quest for survival.

Detachment requires a trust in God, in others and the willingness to let go; to give up controlling and to just be.

In meditation, we simply say our mantra.  We learn to trust and learn to be.  It is a celebration of being – a shared joy in receiving life as a gift; kissing the joy as it flies by and not possessing or controlling it.

Meditation leads us to centered-ness.  It is the still point, and what you learn is that there is only one center – the center of all centers, the profound unity of being.  It is a commitment to be sufficiently detached from self-conscious pre-occupation and to commit time each day to meditation.

God is love.  Jesus said, “Love one another.” By letting go, we have an open-ness to being.  In that we learn to love.

Notes from John Main’s Christian Meditation Lectures
Presented by The World Community for Christian Meditation
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