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MICHAEL:  Good evening, my dear children, this is Michael.  Tonight I would like to go deeper into what Mother Spirit and I have mentioned before, and that is the nature of the meditation we invite you to bring into your lives.  When the Urantia book was conceived and then put together by many different spiritual personalities coming from far away to co-author the book, we were aware you had so many traditions of different kinds of meditations, we didn’t think it necessary to more than briefly allude to them.  Yet recently we’ve decided to make this a principle point in our lessons, not so much to add one more kind of meditation to those you’ve evolved over the years, but to point out the reflective essence of all of them.

MICHAEL:  Good evening, my dear children, this is Michael.  Tonight I would like to go deeper into what Mother Spirit and I have mentioned before, and that is the nature of the meditation we invite you to bring into your lives.  When the Urantia book was conceived and then put together by many different spiritual personalities coming from far away to co-author the book, we were aware you had so many traditions of different kinds of meditations, we didn’t think it necessary to more than briefly allude to them.  Yet recently we’ve decided to make this a principle point in our lessons, not so much to add one more kind of meditation to those you’ve evolved over the years, but to point out the reflective essence of all of them.

===Lesson===  

===Lesson===  

* Stillness meditation

* Stillness meditation

   

   

This is a way of introducing stillness--to some, at first, a foreign-seeming activity which has often been expressed as a paradox or a self-contradiction, stillness being a not-doing as contrasted to your usual activities.  We choose to avoid this contradiction and call it an activity, a definite doing, especially in your very time-regulated modern lives where you literally take your manufactured time as some kind of natural law, as if Mother Nature were wearing a wrist watch.  You can become enslaved to this kind of time and so we remind you that, in addition to this mechanical time, there is also organic time.  Mother Nature has a beating heart, not a wrist watch.  It was upon her rhythmic cycles that you first conceived the notion of measuring this moving dimension, this dimension of motion.  One of the gifts of meditating is taking her time out of clock time to feel your organic reality.

This is a way of introducing stillness--to some, at first, a foreign-seeming activity which has often been expressed as a paradox or a self-contradiction, stillness being a not-doing as contrasted to your usual activities.  We choose to avoid this contradiction and call it an activity, a definite doing, especially in your very time-regulated modern lives where you literally take your manufactured time as some kind of natural law, as if Mother Nature were wearing a wrist watch.  You can become enslaved to this kind of time and so we remind you that, in addition to this mechanical time, there is also organic time.  Mother Nature has a beating heart, not a wrist watch.  It was upon her rhythmic cycles that you first conceived the notion of measuring this moving dimension, this dimension of motion.  One of the gifts of meditating is taking her time out of clock time to feel your organic reality.