Even after years of practice, I still find it hard sometimes to sit in silence and meditate. Especially when I have important work to do. Then I keep thinking about how many more minutes it will take for my alarm to go off so that I can go back to work.
But today during meditation, a new mindset came over me—a mindset sub specie aeternitatis1 that quickly made my workaholic worries go away. Here it is in a nutshell:
The alarm is never going to go off. I will be sitting here for all eternity, and I have to accept that.
This thought, though somewhat scary, calmed me down instantly. Meditation is not a chore to wait out and get over with. It is an immersion in eternity.
In a sense, that mindset is based on a lie: of course the alarm is going to go off, and of course I won’t be sitting there for all eternity. Yet in another sense, it is based on truth: for the experience of the present moment is timeless, hence my sitting is eternal; the future exists only in my mind, not in reality.
But truth or not, that’s secondary. What matters is the mindset and how it affects my thinking mind. If I feel stressed while sitting down to meditate, I will from now on always tell myself, “The alarm is never going to go off. I will be sitting here for all eternity, so I might as well experience it fully and thus—enjoy it.”
Thank you for a powerful realization! Epiphanies like this make meditating very rewarding in themselves. I’m also writing on meditations, feel free to check out my blog and followed list for some resources you might find interesting. Enjoy!
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