It is a puzzlement. We so often hear mockery at another's "burning bush" experience. And yet that's the promise...the carrot to our even beginning the practice of meditation.
Why else are we trying so hard to learn how not to try? Why else are we seeking to learn to quiet our mind, to go deeper in order to go higher in consciousness, to seek...always to seek for there is no enough...if not to experience another level of consciousness?
Yet someone tells of getting still, quieting her mind, and a bright light comes filling him with awe...and the listeners' eyes roll with a disbelieving OMG heard in the land.
Why is that? Is it our fear that we will have an experience like that? Or that we won't? Or is it simply envy?
Ah...there's the end result of getting tangled up in my own dualistic thinking. For what does it matter what other peoples' reaction is to someone's "burning bush" experience? What matters is that that is possible to anyone anywhere...it is just not guaranteed.
We only need to ever make ourselves available...as it says: Watch, therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (Matthew 24:42)
Thank you.
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