Being someone that loves to meditate with the purity and sounds of nature that soothe the soul. It is very challenging when you go to the ocean and people come up near you or next to you and start talking on their cellphones. I actually looked behind me to see who was talking
and why they couldn’t even see I was there attempting to meditate and a man waved his hand in a motion to tell me to move down the beach and meditate. And quite often you can be alone away from people meditating peacefully and a woman and a man will come up quite closely to you with their little children who start screaming.
As you no doubt know when people continue to huddle and scurry about like rats though; there is always the constant noise of drilling, pounding and digging. More and more buildings. More and more repairs. More and more renovations. However sometimes we are taken out of our meditation by such interference as a purpose and today I stopped meditating because of the drilling in a room a couple doors down….
I went to the hall where Amma was speaking and she was telling a story that was significant to me: a man was angry with someone and went to sleep. The next morning he forgot about his anger because of the good rest. Im the same way we should be alert and aware of our responses and wait to act. Even the pause between breaths during meditation has a purpose for us.
