Don’t expect to have no distractions

In meditation, we let go of words and thoughts. Now that isn’t so easy, because our mind is like a radio that is on continuously. There is more than just one radio, it’s like having a hundred radios on at the same time. We have all the different radio stations in our mind going on. We are thinking about what happened yesterday or last year. We are thinking about the future, either this evening or next week; and we are daydreaming about all sorts of things. We have hundreds of different channels going on in our mind at the same time – our thoughts, our imagination, our daydreams. And that is where we start. Let’s be realistic about it. You can’t just turn off the radio. This is the distraction His Grace was talkingmabout, the distractions that we all discover in meditation. So don’t expect to have no distractions.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB