(…) the purpose of meditation is to smash, to destroy that mirror so that we no longer look at reflections of ourselves, of things, and consequently see everything backwards including ourself. When you look at a mirror left is right and righteous left. Everything is mirror image. It’s not how things actually are in themselves. Seeing a reflection is to see things in reverse or with distortion. So the essence of meditation, Fr John says, ‘The mirror must be smashed’, overcoming self-consciousness. So here we see John Main’s teaching on meditation, how deeply he connects the teaching of the gospel to the experience of meditation and to the psychological work that meditation does, if we practise it regularly. The mirror is smashed.
( The Brick Wall of the Ego 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
