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Meditation is Not About Controlling
One thing about the troubled world as it is, that has been turning upside down, and then throwing curve balls at everyone for the last two years(and I am not just thinking about Covid, but also with some of the psychic contagion and disturbance between different parties and identity groups) is that it has required some sense of a ‘temenos’, which to the ancient Greeks was an enclosure or a precinct — often set around a temple or altar and characterized as a sacred, protected or enclosed place somehow set apart from the profane world and its harmful influences.
Psychologically, the ‘temenos’ is a means of protecting the centre of the personality from being drawn out and from being influenced from outside said Jung(and there is something to be said for being able to keep your centre, and not being thrown off kilter by all of the outside influences) and the ‘temenos’ could be characterized as a safe, private inner space deep within us, i.e. our sense of self, independent of the world, and in a psychological sense that affords some kind of a sacred boundary for the soul.
— Jon Wilson
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“I pay my karma, not by answering for how I hurt another, but by letting go of how another has hurt me.”
— Scott Maurer
