Meditation looks inward and though we live life-as-meditation, we participate in the entire span of being. Meditation is essential in stepping toward higher spiritual and soulful ground.
Usually it isn't until we turn inward that we greet the silence of the soul. This is where our personal turbulence will be shattered. Where, to paraphrase Schopenhauer, subject and object vanish and no further knowledge can be communicated.
When we are face to face with this reality we have made the leap. It is a millimeter, a nanometer, and a light-year. All metrics are equal: it is a leap across the ineffable. There we stand upon our own world-axis.
Through meditation, with prayers of silence,
we take draughts from its river,
gaining wisdom and strength.
Pausing along the way, we turn inward
at our sacred point where the resonant silence
of the soul shatters the world's turbulence—
where we are received with ineffable joy
and become its bliss.
When we listen patiently, patiently,
Wisdom points toward the edge-of-transcendence.
There we find our world axis.
