transluzid

A good life in this world is the best gift that I can think of - for any sentient being.

If I eat meat of organically fed and appropriately kept animals, I am indirectly granting them the gift of such a life in this world. If I were not there to consume that animal, it would not ever be born in this world!

On the other hand, I try to avoid eating uncontrolled/-certified/-known meat, considering human nature and the enormous incentive to make quick and easy money by many kinds of illicit trade or fraud in the high priced meat marketplace.

My meditation is practice.

I take to a training environment of maximum reduction. The single core of my very being in existence is my awareness. In other words: the absolute minimum of my living existence I can actively reduce myself to is my awareness: on one hand it is available as long as I live in this world, and on the other hand I cannot live in this world without it being present.

Everything else, it seems, I can do without - within my normal meditation setting.

During the very concrete activity of striving for this maximum reduction, I automatically pass by all the layers of open issues in my current “external life” (”oops I forgot to call such-and-such”, “I still need to organize that event” etc.), all current internal tensions (an argument at work, the love of my wife etc.), all muscular tensions (be it the legs, or one of the tiny muscles in the back of my jaw), and eventually even utterly subtle thoughts or even simple synaptic activities in my brain (a rush in the forehead, a euphoria building up).

My meditation is digging through all these stages, with the simple procedure of a) perceiving and b) letting go - with the goal of getting as close as possible to the maximum reduction described above.

This practice of perceiving and letting go - within an environment so close to the smallest possible - forms habits which start to cross over into my normal everyday life.

…and this is where meditation helps me to live life to its fullest!