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Chris Corrigan has given us a neat list of 40 meditation practices, a good collection. As he says, now you have no excuses.

This morning I found myself seeing the similarity between Bohmian Dialogue and meditation. It really looks like meditation to me, when he talks about the participants just noticing what is happening in the conversation, and letting it go….

:- Doug.

Meet. Meet the world. Find out what is real.

:- Doug.

One thing I have found is that whatever we try, the world usually accepts. It might not pour overwhelming returns into our arms, nor kill us for the effort. Often it will simply ignore us—it is indifferent. Occasionally it will give us feedback, but not always. For every action there is not an equal and opposite reaction—our greatest efforts may simply fall silent on the field. But the hope lies in this: we tried and the world says OK, I’ll accept all tries. I’m open for business. Try again. Most the balls miss the target and only rarely does the firefighter go into the dunk tank. Even fish miss the bait. We can try many things, and the ones that work have advanced some part of life. So try more.

:- Doug.

Can we move beyond shared meaning? What would that be? Shared being?

:- Doug.

The meaning of life is to both search for and create the meaning of life. To be and to do. We have both capacities. We use both to be whole. What we find is the world generally accepts what we try.

:- Doug.

The overlap of Join-Open-Be does not form a cube. One end of the continuum—which is not a line—is a point the other wide open. Bell-shaped flowers. When all three are at their points, you have a dot-sized human, a black hole shaped human. When all these are wide open and opening, you have a bouquet!

:- Doug.