I Meditate

By B Duche

I meditate.

Yes, I know, I might as well pray. But praying is asking. Or begging.
Or else, it’s reciting. I don’t feel like reciting. I have recited all through my youth. What did I keep from it?

After enjoying quite a lot of fun, even experiencing my own 15 minutes in the game of “money, power and fame”, I felt a need for something else. What was it? I didn’t know...

Certainly not another religion.
Another dimension.
To live in 3D!

To give a meaning to all this.
GNOTHI SEAUTON.
Know Thyself.

Life is a great thing where everything is like clockwork! Whatever occurs to me is the best thing that can happen to help me reach my fastest personal development.

I could be a Stoic who is looking for ataraxia, a lucid state of robust tranquility and of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety...

I could be a Buddhist and try to set myself free from the wheel of reincarnations towards Samadhi...

I could be a Sufi or a whirling dervish, desert my ego, find the truth and reach the ecstasy in a spinning trance...

But I search no label nor position nor recognition in any group...

I meditate.

« Lead your life as you would wish it to go on eternally.» Nietzsche

• Language: English
• Publisher: B Duche
• Release date: Jun 12, 2013
• ISBN: 9791092804003

B Duche

Born and raised in France, Benoît Duché lived in New York for six years where he directed a famous French haute-couture house in North America. For the past eight years, he has been writing books as well as short and long feature scripts of human interest fictions set in mixed cultural/historical/social backgrounds. In June 2007, he exhibited some of his watercolours at the gallery Etienne de Causans, rue de Seine in Paris and granted the profits to the VBMC in Congo.

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I meditate.

Yes, I know, I might as well pray. But praying is asking. Or begging.

Or else, it’s reciting.

I don’t feel like reciting any more.  All these years of reciting when I was young.

For what?

The list of historical events and multiplication tables... what’s left of it!…

And a few bits & pieces morceaux choisis of La Fontaine (Aesop) fables…

I confess I only remember the first few words of the "Pater Noster" or the

"Hail Mary, full of grace…"

She was gracious indeed. I remember a few beautiful experiences in her holy company during the traditional religious retreat before celebrating Confirmation.

Well, I chose to meditate because it seems true to me.

No more arduous, despite what most people think.

Deeper, for sure.

Actually, there are many ways to meditate.

With chants and mantras, with gurus, masters… and now even with coaches!

Coaches to rediscover oneself!... to listen to your inner being!

It says a lot about humanity and its many paths to lead us away from our true core, doesn’t it?!

Personally, I meditate Raja Yoga.

Apparently, that’s the royal (raja) connection (yoga)…

The ultimate connection with the self.

But I see it as a superb shortcut!

Because, well... I could do neither: neither pray nor meditate!

Many people don’t do either and most of them don’t seem to complain!

Apparently at least….

And indeed, I was doing fine in the best of lesser worlds, living decently with my own doubts and contradictions...

But after enjoying quite a lot of fun, even experiencing my own 15 minutes in the game of money, power and fame, I felt a need for something else.

What was it? I had no clue...

Certainly