SITTING IN THE UNRESOLVED

SITTING IN THE UNRESOLVED – THE TRUE MEDITATION

“I will not forget you.

I have held you in the palm of my hand.”

Isaiah 49: 15-16

“It is so beautiful, just to sit in this open space together, where nothing needs to be resolved or solved; where we don’t need to fix ourselves or be fixed; where our questions don’t need to be answered; where, finally, our questions are allowed to just be questions; where our uncertainty doesn’t need to be transformed into certainty;  where our doubts are finally given permission to just be doubts. Here, in this warm embrace that we are, in this place of true meditation without a meditator, without a goal, without a controller, we don’t need to find the answers, we don’t need to come to any mental conclusions about life, we don’t need to work everything out, because finally, finally, our wondering and our wandering, our trying-to work-it-all-out and trying-to-make-it-all-work, our seeking and searching and our desperation to find answers — it is all just allowed to be here, exactly as it is.

It is the essence of non-duality."

Jeff Foster on a retreat in Glastonbury, June 2012