A little boy told his mother: "Today a monk came to our school and showed us gong meditation. He told us to watch where the sound went and to listen very carefully and if we followed where the sound went we may get closer to God, and I did that."

And the mother asked: "Then what happened?"

The little boy responded: "Well mom, when I watched and listened to where the sound went, I didn't get closer to God, I was God."

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Someone once asked a Native American grandmother:

"Why are Native American babies calmer than White American Babies?"

She responded by describing a tribe tradition, in which when a girl is blessed with her first period, she is given the opportunity to go into the wilderness all by herself to meditate on what kind of woman she would like to be.

This tradition would continue each month on the onset of her menstrual cycle giving her an exclusive opportunity to spend another day all by herself on meditation.

As this girl grew up, she would then spend time meditating on the type of man she would like to be with.

After she got engaged, she would focus her meditation on what kind of wife she would like to become and what kind of mother she aspires to be, after she got married.

Thus, each woman in the tribe during the course of her adulthood would get special opportunities to spend solitary time meditating and reflecting on what kind of person she wanted to become.

Eventually, the grandmother concluded by stating that: "So you see, calm mothers make calm babies."

Meditation, like morality or attitude, is not always taught.... it is sometimes caught.


Many years back, I was invited to a Birthday party of a little boy who had a new-born sister called Sabrina.

When, I entered their home, Sabrina was being rocked by her uncle who was desperately trying to console her from sobbing.

I went up to him and asked if I could hold Sabrina.

Within moments after he placed Sabrina in my hands, she stopped crying.

And the uncle said: "What did you do Meher? What did you do, that stopped her crying?"

And I said: "Nothing."

I told him that she probably calmed down because I am calm and babies normally absorb the reflections of adults holding them.


It says in my book Bread For the Head™ that:

"Meditation is confirmation of unification with creation".

So

"Focus on being meditation instead of just doing meditation".

Because

"When you live your life in meditation, you will have no need for medication".


Personally, I do not have to go on the top of a mountain or the bottom of an ocean to meditate because I believe that meditation like love, is purely in the moment.

And every blessed moment provides a momentous opportunity to live our life in peace and love and harmony.

Once, we enter the dimension of that consciousness, we will realize that: