Meditation for Thursday 26 March 2026
Lately, there seems to be a megaphone announcing a daily diet of bad news. Fear is paralysing! Yet when we develop the capacity to face our fears we can be liberated and when we acknowledge our vulnerability it marks the beginning of our liberation.
Meditation cultivates compassion towards ourselves and others by giving us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions even those emotions that are paralysed by fear. It moves us to joy by positioning us in the present moment.
Fear is usually manifested by anticipation of the future whether that future is in the next five minutes or the next five years.
The experience of being in the moment, of being right here, right now, gives us an uncluttered, simple immediacy that is a perfect antidote for fear.
Meditation and mindfulness exercises can drag us back from fear and apprehension to the present.
It’s helpful to realise that there will be days when as much as we try, we fail to live in the moment. Self-denigration is never helpful on days like these. Rather than surrendering to fear, try listening to inspiring music or inspiring reading or just sitting and verbalizing your fear. It will pass and the opportunity will once again present itself to be in the present moment. And being in the present moment will dissipate fear and bring peace.
Now let us meditate in the custom to which we are comfortable, always remembering that we not only meditate for ourselves, but we meditate for others, particularly those who at present are crippled by fear.
Meditation
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