As an accomplished meditator, and one who has lived in both urban and rural areas, I find the city extremly to my liking. Then again, it is good to get out to the country for a while.

You see, when one learns to meditate properly, there is a silence within that is far more consuming than a monastic type of silence. The interesting thing of being surrounded by "silence", as in a monestary, is that one discovers the world is not really a silent kind of place. I spend a week house-sitting for a friend out in the middle of nowhere, and every day I got out and walked in the forest for hours, sitting and thinking under the trees. There was no "artificial" noise, but it was as noisy as any city -- just in a different way. The more I did this, the more I could hear, and I realized there are few physical places that one could entirely escape.

So, I learned that turning inward was the only real answer. Good thing, too -- I get the conveniences and advantages of city living, but I never feel pressured by the "rat race". Turning inward sort of makes one realize that none of the daily stresses really matter all that much, and it becomes easy to dismiss them -- the phrase "leave work at work" becomes possible. And, even at work, I find that I have little or no stress; not because I have a low-stress job, but because I can no longer jusitify being consumed by the stresses of the job.

Anima Legato
.oO all things connect through the motion of the mind

In reply to Re: (OT): Human Multi-tasking by legato
in thread (OT): Human Multi-tasking by dragonchild

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