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Meditation is hard. You try, you fail. There is that straight spine business, and the folding of the legs, and the breathing -- in and out, in and out, and the way words just keep poking their noses into your mental tent, dragging your attention away from the movement of air through one nostril or the other, sometimes both, all the aches and pains to ignore or embrace. Yes, it's a struggle, but the rewards are great -- the control of time itself, the wonderful realization that all the moments of your existence don't necessarily occur in any particular order. In fact, only this one occurs at all, and what do you mean by "moment" anyway? The word tickles your nose with a feather. You want to open your eyes. You try to blow away the feather with a small stream of air from your mouth. No good. You sneeze.
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
prayer narrative
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Religion
Recommended Citation
Vukcevich, Ray, "Practice" (2011). On Earth As It Is. 28.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearth/28
Comments
"Practice" was originally published at On Earth As It Is.
Image by Matthew Simmons.