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The Unsteadiness of Stones: Understanding Time and Timelessness in Meditation {part 3}

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She shares Wisława Szymborska's poem 'The Three Oddest Words,' where saying 'future' makes its first syllable instantly past.
Meditation teacher Meryl Arnett explores the fluid, non-linear nature of time through physics, personal experience, and poetry, arguing that meditation allows us to access timeless states (Kairos) beyond chronological thinking (Chronos). The episode includes a guided meditation practice focused on circular breathing to experientially connect with this concept.

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A quiet meditation on time, insight, and the part of practice that resists explanation.

Meryl Arnett's meditation treats time as something felt before it is measured. It moves from the usual line of past and future toward Kairos, a kind of knowing that lands all at once, and it stays grounded by tying that idea to everyday images, flashes of math, and the strain of…

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When time feels linear and a little too neat, this opens a wider way to listen.

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