Mathematical meditation
Oct. 7th, 2001 05:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheThese days, when I describe meditation, I talk about "becoming the naught" and bring in concepts of infinity and negative infinity. I'll try to explain what I mean.
When I imagine my inner being, I sense my center of balance. That place, for me, is the starting or center point. I am my self, I am my whole. But I wish to be filled with the All (e.g., God, or the Universe), so I try to imagine myself growing smaller and smaller. Miniscule. Reducing my self to such minute proportions is "becoming the naught"--becoming, in effect, the zero, the nothing, so that you may realize the All.
The next time I meditate, I plan to use the metaphor of a black hole, that I'm effecting a black hole in the center of my gravity. I mean to take the natural gravitational forces my body already holds, use it in relation to myself, so that my self will conceptually move exponentially toward -infinity so that the rest of me can become filled with +infinity.
I realize how kooky this may sound. I've come to the idea that despite the weirdness of the words that inevitably come out of my mouth, I must say them. Otherwise, I'll never get to the revision process.
When I imagine my inner being, I sense my center of balance. That place, for me, is the starting or center point. I am my self, I am my whole. But I wish to be filled with the All (e.g., God, or the Universe), so I try to imagine myself growing smaller and smaller. Miniscule. Reducing my self to such minute proportions is "becoming the naught"--becoming, in effect, the zero, the nothing, so that you may realize the All.
The next time I meditate, I plan to use the metaphor of a black hole, that I'm effecting a black hole in the center of my gravity. I mean to take the natural gravitational forces my body already holds, use it in relation to myself, so that my self will conceptually move exponentially toward -infinity so that the rest of me can become filled with +infinity.
I realize how kooky this may sound. I've come to the idea that despite the weirdness of the words that inevitably come out of my mouth, I must say them. Otherwise, I'll never get to the revision process.