Episode 3: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo
Barbara’s Lesson 3: why do we meditate?
People often meditate to calm themselves, and there's a reason why meditation is calming. It brings you into the moment. By being in the moment you're disinclined to worry about the future or the past because you can be in the moment. And when we sense into the quality of the moment, it has a coming influence. You feel that sense of life surrounding you, and inside of you, and outside of you. So we meditate to be aware of ourselves, and we meditate to concentrate, and we meditate to develop, , compassion.
And in sitting, we meditate with our own experience and our life experience.
We cultivate an awareness of who we are, and how large our life experience can be. We encourage our life experience to reach out into a more expansive context so make yourselves comfortable.