As I've been reading Passage Meditation and pondering repetition, I've also been reading a manuscript from a client. We're talking about the uses of repetition. He's written about a gazillion books, I'm happy to report, and I'm eager to read as many of them as I can get my hands on.īut we're not talking about my reading list. But more than that, I love Easwaran and his clear style of writing. It calms and focuses the mind, and at the same time, it drives the meaning and heart of the spiritual passage deep into your being. I love the passage meditation that Easwaran describes. The use of a mantram involves repeating a word or phrase over and over as you go about your daily life. Easwaran talks about two forms of repetition–passage meditation, which consists of meditating by repeating a spritual passage over and over again, and using a mantram, which you may know as a mantra. What he did recommend was a simple 7-step spiritual way of life which is explained in his book, Passage Meditation.Īnd here we come to the repetition.
Easwaran was knowledgeable, and wrote about, most of the world's great religious traditions but as far as I can tell he espoused none exclusively. His name is Eknath Easwaran, and he wrote a number of books on spirituality.
I'm in love with a man from India, who, unfortunately, has been dead since 1999. Why? For a couple reasons, the most important being my new object of adoration. Driving the same way to work every day, repeating the same routine day in, day out–bor-ing.īut lately I've been rethinking repetition in both arenas. In writing, repetition is often frowned upon because it is seen as a lack of cleverness, or perhaps laziness–couldn't you take the time to find a different word so you don't keep repeating the same one? Please, please, please can't you vary the length and structure of your sentences so as to avoid the mind-numbing sing-song cadence that results? And the same is true in life.
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