How do you meditate? Sitting still, eyes closed? That’s one way to do it: We can imagine ourselves serene like the stars overhead, moving in stately, measured rhythms. We breathe in and out, and they rise and set.
Or we could meditate like the stars as seen from another point of reference, dashing to and fro frenetically. Our Sun moves at 43,000 miles per hour. Nearby Barnard’s star is moving away from us at 200,000 miles per hour, while a star called Ross 128 is moving toward us at 69,000 miles per hour. Stars race through the sky, and they outnumber the grains of sand on all our beaches. Their heavenly haste creates the galaxies that fly like hurricanes across the cosmos.
You can sit still to meditate. Or you can emulate a star and race like a cannonball from place to place, tugged throughout your journey by bodies as small as a planet or as large as the black hole at the center of a galaxy. Your course will be constantly modified by outside forces as you careen past them.
Movement is beauty. Speed is ecstasy. Stars never travel alone and never make the same journey as their neighbors — and here on Earth, their every moment is tracked with scientific awe.
You can be like them. Savor tomorrow morning’s mad rush. Imagine yourself as a star as you move fast and phrenetic, your destination subject to constant influence and change.
Meditate on your blazing, ecstatic celerity toward parts unknown. You will be heavenly.
Semiosis 