Cloud of Unknowing (2)

May 6 Evenin
Father, I noticed I am tired by Thursday nite. At times becos of having Friday off, I have to rush out a few things and it tires me. Guess, I still haven't learn to watch my breathe.

The Cloud of Unknowing
Meditation is the work we do to realise the state of contemplation which is our true state, our true nature.
We enter into contemplative experience when the movements of mind - reason, memory, imagination and all their compounds - begin to settle into silence.
However simple it may sound, it is hard work. Its work consists in the way we deal with distraction, we push them below us.

We are drawn to this work of contemplation by the powerful attraction of divine love: we are called.
This means that the hard work of the journey, the battle with our egotism and its fecund capacity for illusion and self-deception, its self-centredness and possessiveness or clinging, is all undergone in a relational context of love.
However solitary or 'singular' the work may be, we are never wholly alone in it.
If the human spirit is in some way an reflection or image of the divine, then the work of contemplation re-emerges the image with its original - ie the soul is oned with God. The experience is one of falling and being in love.

We are told the true contemplative becomes a nicer, more likeable person. Behind this general improvement in our personality is the mysterious process of divinization which creates in the individual a personal radiance or magnetism, which is held in place by the deeply-rooted humility of self-knowledge.

You cannot be unaware of becoming a better person - more tolerant and patient and more compassionate - if u do this work. Your improvement will take u by surprise but you wil be unable to be proud of it or attribute it to yourself.

Soul
Yeap, that describe my experience.

The Cloud of Unknowing
The usefulness of meditation is not restricted only to the meditator. Others benefit too, both the living and the dead. It is valuable as part of our spiritual growth but that it is essential for the growth and healing of our evolving planet.
God cannot be known by thought, we can know God by love.
Inner work of contemplation is nothing less than an act and a growing experience of love.