Concentrative Meditation: A Path to Insight

The questions sustains: how best to capture what has been shown on the screen of imagination? Is it possible for writers to borrow from techniques which assist in the art of meditation? There appear to be commonalities. Both seek to focus the mind & leave behind mundane concerns, both require focus beyond the management of daily life; both strive to streamline consciousness for an end result.

Writing is meditation in that it takes us away from world affairs to accomplish recording the words blossoming from a busy imagination. We must pass time, many hours at a desk & this can be a challenge. Distractions mount & the focus we require to complete a writing objective eludes because of a loss in essential concentration. Similar to meditation, writers must summon resolve & sustain focus.

Writers seek transformation from the everyday mind.

When a writer centres, prepared to work, this focus leads to a place of quietude; this more still-place opens a potential for genuine contemplation.

What could be more beneficial? Harnessing the contents of imagination requires reflection & an ability to move past every day distraction. Suppressed for a broader viewpoint, imagination generates.

This act of writing serves as a bridge from an inner paradigm, Awareness of this connection is a source of illumination & we persist in a complex endeavour because we have something relevant to share. Voices combine to form a network of potentiality.

{Photographs by Kumi Yamashita}