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We must allow God to teach us how to meditate
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We must allow God to teach us how to meditate, through the very meditation practice itself.
At least three great religious traditions value doing nothing in meditation.
What exactly is meditation? The AA literature seems to offer at least two responses to this
question. The Big Book, in its treatment of Step 11 – contrary to what most people believe –
gives no real answer. Indeed, the Big Book assumes that we are actually meditating long before
we get to the Eleventh Step. If you look at page 69, you will see that the Big Book recommends
using meditation to determine how to handle specific matters involving sex: “In meditation, we
ask God what we should do ....” But a careful reading of the paragraph suggests that the
recovering alcoholic is already using meditation for issues other than these. The previous
sentence reads, “We treat sex as we would any other problem.” The implication, then, is that we
are already routinely practicing meditation as a means of asking God what we should do at least
as early as our working of Step 4
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