True Meditation Has No Direction
What does "being awareness" mean to you? Can you share a personal experience of being awareness? How do you reconcile the irony around attempting to get to true meditation, while, true meditation "has no direction or goal"?
This is it. Yet, how to accomplish this simple relaxed state of being? Spiritual heart is the key to experiencing this. Relaxing, smiling, smiling to the center of awareness/feeling within your chest, melting in to the awareness feeling within your spiritual heart. Enjoy Open Heart Meditation. www.open-your-heart.org.uk.
Dear Thierry thanks for your thoughts and I have found out every morning when I review 9 diamonds it helps me a lot in my interactions and thus my 4 key meditative state are really taken care of. best of luck in keeping the checks and balances.
Last night I attended the “Wednesday” that went with this reading and had something to share, but then balked and simply passed when the mic came to me. It’s sort of an irony - the share was to be about how I’ve found it increasingly difficult to share in recent months.
I’d been feeling bad about that, but in retrospect, this reading and the ensuing comments suggested a new interpretation. Though I’ve always pretty much been a left brain-dominant person, after attending Wednesdays for several years, the experience for me is less and less about the words and more and more about simply *being* with you all.
Not that words are unimportant, but they are simply pointers to reality (and often crude ones at that). Lately, just give me the reality.
It is always a pleasure to discover a few new Sanskrit words such as 'arta' and 'raudra' where we find the root of the English words 'rude', 'rogue', etc. Often unknown to ourselves our Indian heritage is present in the words and structures of our modern European languages. To be aware that we create binds, attachments, for ourselves through suffering, jealousy and greed is at least a beginning. That awareness creates a movement towards inner freedom which I would'nt call a goal but rather a drive.
Dear Bijaybhai very rightly said. In this Kali Yuga where there is no oneness of mind, body and speech it is very difficult to comprehend. That is why we need a Gyani as stated by Krishna Bhagwan who can lead the way. As I wrote earlier the Gyani or the Vitrage Scientist has stated that we are in one of the four meditation state all the time and if we understand them then we will understand how karmas are created and how they are discharged.
The description of "true meditation" in this article cannot be comprehended by human beings in general. Only those who have made some progress toward achieving a meditative state, even if for brief moments, can get an understanding of what this article describes. Normally, human beings need to set goals and follow directions to make any progress toward a state when they can get an understanding of what this article describes. Even Buddha had a goal when he left his kingdom and searched for the right direction for achieving his goal for many years before he finally found what he was looking for. Is there anyone who is born with the understanding of "true meditation" let alone experiencing it? I am sure there are some people, but understandably very rare.
I remember being at a transcendental meditation seminar with 35 others "strangers" sitting around the table together. We were asked to meditate and during my meditation I was unaware of the presence of anyone else until I opened my eyes. Thoughts come and go randomly at first and then there is the silence. It is wonderful.
I don't think this passage means that one should have no goal and no direction, that one should deny the role of the intellect. There is a place for all this. But I think it means that meditation is an inquiry into the nature of the one mind, where all thoughts originate, whether yours or mine, traditional or not traditional., inefficient or efficient, futile or purpose oriented. What is the state of the mind when it is not identified with any thought? Is it different from silence and is silence different from beauty? When does one best see the great beauty present in nature? Can there be depth and beauty in the field of relationships or must there always be struggle. I think all this is part of meditation and I think meditation proceeds through endless observation and questioning. I may be wrong but this is what I understand Raja Yoga to be.
Meditation is an emptiness...Shunya.....!!!
It is pure silence within....A state of Bliss, Inside and outside...!!
Its a personal experience of being surrendered to yourself..... to the supreme power.....!
When we try to define anything, that is try to put it in words, we miss its essence. We are left with its dry shell.
This what happens to meditation.
We can neither meditate nor define it.
Meditation/Dhyan happens when we become like a statue for a while, doing nothing, not even observing.
We then come to realise what is happening, why is it happening, who is making it happen. All this is so very personal. All generalisation are a crude mockery.
All that I am saying may be complete nonsense.
