Meditation

 I never really understood the concept of meditation.  Like, what exactly does it mean and what is a person supposed to do in attempting to meditate?  And what is supposed to happen?  What experience are they supposed to have?  The only thing that I could gather is that a person is just supposed to attempt to silence their own thinking.  And then what?  I was just thinking about this today and I perhaps understood it a little bit more.  Maybe it’s like a conversation but where the person meditating really tries to focus on just being the listener so as not to interject too much of their own thinking into what they are receiving.  Maybe it’s just about letting ourselves feel higher emotions that perhaps tie to real circumstances in our lives.    

Well here is something of my own thinking.  I guess I’m taking a detour from my contemplation about meditation.  My Grinch mug broke a while back.  It was my favorite mug.  Pretty soon the Christmas merchandise will all be back in stores and I should be able to get a new one.  Mine was from Hobby Lobby.  This leads me to a thought.  Are we supposed to have empathy and think kind thoughts even toward evil people?  For example if Mr. Trump is not well, should I be thinking, “Prayers and good wishes to you Mr. Trump”.  Do we separate the person from their actions, even if they have made terrible mistakes in their lives?  In the case of Donald Trump, perhaps it is not his fault if there is something wrong with his brain that causes him to be the narcissistic, uncaring and unfeeling person that he is.  

And one more thought.  Maybe if we don’t look for and want to know the good inside of people, we are missing a whole lot.