Wrapped in Stillness
I once went to a meditation group where, as an exercise in understanding
each other's experience, we paired off and talked about what we felt
during the thirty minute period of thought and silence. The woman I was
talking to alluded to enjoying the contrast between feelings of movement
and feelings of stillness, and though I may have understood what
she was talking about, neither of us really had any language that
actually described what "movement" and "stillness" meant in the context
of a silent meditation. I had in my own mind a sense of what those things
feel like, but those words really could mean many things, and each of those experiences anyway
is fleeting. I have sometimes used the same words to describe musical moments,
but it's likewise just a metaphor for an experience I don't really have words for.
These three pieces are about those sensations.
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