EMBRACING MEDITATION: THE MOTHER-INFANT ANALOGY
My journey with meditation has evolved into something I genuinely love, so much so that I now naturally wake up early, eager to start my day with a session. This helps me to keep the meditative state throughout the day. A few days ago, I found a meditation that I can carry around me throughout the entire day. This led me to experiencing a moment of complete silence the next morning.
This shift towards meditation wasn't just about finding a moment of peace; it was about discovering a deeper connection with myself, which became profoundly more meaningful through the lens of the mother-infant analogy.
It began by visualizing the analogy often presented by Aaron Abke in 4D University: our ego, represented as a crying infant, and our higher self, symbolized by a nurturing mother putting it to sleep. Whenever the infant cries, the mother remains untriggered and continues to soothe and comfort.
This nurturing approach significantly altered my relationship with my inner self. It transformed my meditation from a practice of quieting the mind to an act of internal care and understanding. Seeing the ego's noise as a child's cry for attention allowed me to meet these aspects of myself with patience and love, soothing them and, by extension, soothing myself.
After spending an entire day tending to my ego, it quieted down to a point where I could silence it almost immediately every time. This mother-infant analogy has deeply enriched my meditation practice, offering a compassionate framework for engaging with myself. It's a reminder that patience, love, and understanding can transform our inner landscape, making space for peace and connection within the chaos of daily life.
This alone felt like a breakthrough for me, but an even deeper step was awaiting. The next morning, I received a message from a fellow student in the 4DU Community to try reversing the roles.
"Have you ever tried to treat the mind's speaking as the mother and the other part of you as the crying baby?"
Initially, I did not understand what he was talking about, but as I tried it, the suggestion to reverse the roles within this analogy—viewing the mind's voice as the comforting mother and my consciousness as the vulnerable child—introduced a moment of profound silence and clarity. This experience of complete mental quiet was like becoming silence itself, a state of being where the usual inner chatter ceased entirely, leaving a profound sense of peace.
This step, as counterintuitive as it seemed, was vital in helping me to acknowledge the subtlety of my spiritual ego and to accept my own fragility and the universal need for love and support. It bridged the gap between my ego and the higher self.
The revelation I received was about how to use duality to collapse duality. By embracing the dual roles of the comforting mother and the vulnerable child within myself, I could dissolve the boundaries that separate these aspects of my being. This process didn't eliminate the ego; instead, it integrated it into a broader, more holistic view of the self. The distinctions between comforter and comforted, nurturer and nurtured, dissolved into a unified consciousness, where the concept of separation vanished.
Embracing my inner duality was a profound meditative experience that provided a path towards the discovery of unity. By accepting and integrating the dual aspects of my being, I opened myself to a deeper understanding of my true nature and of the universe.
