What does the journey of meditation mean in terms of our experience? We experience it, of course like every journey, through stages and different kinds of journeying. Just think of any journey you make. You’re driving on the highway from A to B, you go through different kinds of traffic conditions, you go through different landscapes, you may even get trouble with your car and you have to get it fixed. But every journey we make is different, and every part of the journey is different. And it all adds up to what we call ‘the journey’. There are different experiences of covering the ground. And every journey involves that covering the ground, fulfilling one’s destiny, doing what you are meant to do in your span of life, including those difficult times when we seem to be stopped or blocked, or even lost and we don’t know where we’re going, or even find that we took the wrong turning and we’re actually going back, we’re regressing.
( Enlightenment by Laurence Freeman OSB )
