[mercuryrising]

Originally Posted by John Freestone

I try to practise passivity in my meditation, to sit with whatever is and just observe, just be in fact. What I find is that out of that naturally comes an incredibly deep joy and peace that surpasses any I could sit kindling with nice thoughts and beach imagery! It seems boundlessly creative, too, even on personal things - answers to worries, ideas I'm working on, poetry, music, whatever - as long as I am genuinely passive and, I think, grateful, humble about what might come to me. After all, everything that comes is a gift. I didn't ask to be born, I used to rant. Also, I didn't create anything. Everything in my life came to me, was given to me. It arrived. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. Probably.

Hey look, I kept it brief again! Must stop meditating.

Sounds like your connecting with, I don't know, a power greater than yourself. God or something.