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meditating in brown water—Raw Material #30

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Isabel Cowles Murphy
Jul 08, 2024
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I try to meditate, but I am bad at it. If I’m lucky, I’ll get a few ribbons of rest—the kind of silence that hums. That Ma I mentioned. The cool, plunging emptiness of a mind at peace.  

But I always get that feeling when I swim in lakes and rivers. I couldn’t meditate in an ocean, with all that depth and the threat of an undertow. Nor could I meditate i…

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