The principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking: we find there is only a present, only an eternal now.
The easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin by listening. If you simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all the sounds that are going on around you. Just listen to the general hum and buzz of the world as if you were listening to music. Don’t try to identify the sounds you are hearing, don’t put names on them, simply allow them to play with your eardrums.
