Absolute Solitude - The Barrier Breaking Machine.

It is imperative that I sit down and do nothing. All I do is sit here and breathe in and out and think of nothing except of the wind whooshing and my breath going in and out. I feel the particular sensations of being alive all about me and I sit quietly and still and with good posture. And this will do. It is all I need to do for the next 15-20 minutes. Some call this meditation.

But you may also call it the barrier breaking machine. My post yesterday went into some detail about the barriers our minds create as we acquire life experience, and how to disintegrate those harmful barriers. This act of sitting and doing nothing is a fast track to eroding the barriers of the mind.

When I slip into my barrier breaking machine and assume a proper meditation posture and engage, I am a person of no color. I am of no country, of no pride, and I assume no affiliation of any sort. I flagellate freely in outer space as a person free of judgments and without predisposition. When I exit from the machine, I am a person with barriers still, but they are eroded. I hope one day they will come down, but for now, they simply become more brittle in anticipation of the day in which they will crumble.

When I am in deep meditation I cannot find the time to ponder politic, gender, race, sex, or conflict of any sort. I am in a heaven away from it all that is very much absent of turmoil. I am merely myself, sitting and staring my human nature in the face.

And what do I find? Human nature.  I find that human nature, stripped down, is a very good thing. I find that we are all humans trying to survive in a sometimes cruel world in the best way that we know how. When I surmise this, I understand why I am slighted, why I have been cut off in traffic, why the man in front of me cusses at the barista at the coffee shop, why people who 'love' one another hurt each other. It is because we are human, and as best we can, we are crudely clawing our way toward what we perceive to be peace.

It may be that some people go about it all wrong. When I sit down on the floor or the ground and do nothing, you may perceive that I do exactly that - nothing. But I am achieving my own peace. With each breath that goes in and each breath that leaves me, I am perceiving no sort of ambiguation of the mind, and no mental bondage restrains me. When I come to and rise and return to the 'real world', I feel at ease and know that all is well despite the evident chaos of the world.

This is a state of absolute solitude. It is indeed a super power that can be achieved by anyone willing to do so. It is as vital as a drink of water to me, for I have found ephemeral peace with it. It is the barrier breaking machine, and I hope to one day bring down the barriers that persist in my perception of the world.