ohhh emptying again - don't you have a different message

Meditation, at the root, is emptying.  What is it that we are discarding?

Meditation is the practice of emptying ourselves of how we think it OUGHT to be and thereby become able to notice how it IS.  

When we sit in silence we might have many ideas about what we OUGHT to be doing: quieting our minds, finding some peace of mind, becoming whole, or even ‘enlightened’.  This is rubbish.  When we do these things we are just adding to our inner turmoil and moving further away from what Jesus calls the “Kingdom of Heaven”.

But if we simply notice our thoughts of how it OUGHT to be and gently let them go, we move closer to the “Kingdom of Heaven - how it IS.  Try it, you will be amazed - just empty yourself utterly.

And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (NIV: Matthew 18:3)