I’m sure most of us are more or less familiar with this word – “meditation”. The word has become very popular - both in the east and the west in the last 100 years or so. Especially among Hippies and Pop stars and Hollywood celebrities, when drugs became popular, meditation also took to popularity. Some used drugs, some used meditation and some used both. India became a large exporter of meditation gurus and these gurus established their meditation centers around the world.
There are different schools, methods and systems of meditation. Thus ask you to sit in a certain posture, breathe in a particular way, visualize some scene, concentrate on an image, etc. Then there are methods which give you a certain word or a phrase to repeat and promise some sort of transcendental experience. (Transcendental - that silly word, perhaps an invention of some romantic Orientalists, who have imagined India to be some sort of mystical, mysterious, and spiritual country..ooopppsssy!) And so, there is laughing meditation, dancing meditation, sleeping meditation, and also, just recently came, hopping meditation.
Though I’m no expert on meditation, still it is perfectly evident to me that all that passes on in the name of meditation is simply a form of self-hypnosis and is nothing more than amusing oneself. Also, it is utterly mechanical. The word "meditation", has become a much abused word, like the word "love". Everybody uses it, practices it, without having an understanding of what it is. The word is loaded with tradition, theories, systems, concepts and beliefs of all kinds.
Meditation is not following any system. It is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration. It is not the control of thought. Meditation is not to sit in a corner repeating a lot of words. It is not thinking of a picture and going into some wild imaginings. Meditation cannot be practiced. It is not an intellectual affair. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. It is not a means of achievement. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no idea or concept of any kind.
Any conscious effort to meditate is not meditation.
Why Should One Meditate At All? What place does it have in one’s life? Not in the so-called spiritual, mystical, occultochemicalometaphysical life but the actual, everyday life?
When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, are aware of yourself, that is meditation. When one looks at oneself as one is directly and discovers how heavily the mind is conditioned, that is meditation. When one discovers the movement of one’s thoughts and feelings, that is meditation.
It can take place when you are sitting in a train or walking on the road, or looking at the trees or listening to the sound of birds. It is a state when the mind is still and there is total attention. It cannot be defined in positive terms because then it becomes a process, a technique, a method. And all methods are static, crystallized and binding. When you understand the whole process of your thinking and feeling, it brings about a freedom from thought and feeling in which the mind and the whole being becomes very quiet. With that quietness, you can look at nature, you can look at people, and you can look at the sky and the stars. Then there is silence and that silence is beauty.
Any of those making sense to any of you pepz? I'm still trying to find myself through though *lolz* Anyway keep those smile bright on your face.. take care & ha-pink-ness always aite! big luvvv xxxhugzxxx toodlesss >>> EWey!!!
p.s. ILY my friend (you know who you're & I know you're alwayz peeking in here ;p) or should I say my current no.1 hater whom I dearly adore - I'll make myself disappear for a while, try not to miss me instead have fun & trust me you'll love it when I'm gone..if that's really making you happy, I promise I'll vanish forever..oh! don't worry about my heart 'cos according to you I aint got any..alwayz luv yah sweetie! =)
There are different schools, methods and systems of meditation. Thus ask you to sit in a certain posture, breathe in a particular way, visualize some scene, concentrate on an image, etc. Then there are methods which give you a certain word or a phrase to repeat and promise some sort of transcendental experience. (Transcendental - that silly word, perhaps an invention of some romantic Orientalists, who have imagined India to be some sort of mystical, mysterious, and spiritual country..ooopppsssy!) And so, there is laughing meditation, dancing meditation, sleeping meditation, and also, just recently came, hopping meditation.
Though I’m no expert on meditation, still it is perfectly evident to me that all that passes on in the name of meditation is simply a form of self-hypnosis and is nothing more than amusing oneself. Also, it is utterly mechanical. The word "meditation", has become a much abused word, like the word "love". Everybody uses it, practices it, without having an understanding of what it is. The word is loaded with tradition, theories, systems, concepts and beliefs of all kinds.
Meditation is not following any system. It is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration. It is not the control of thought. Meditation is not to sit in a corner repeating a lot of words. It is not thinking of a picture and going into some wild imaginings. Meditation cannot be practiced. It is not an intellectual affair. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. It is not a means of achievement. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no idea or concept of any kind.
Any conscious effort to meditate is not meditation.
Why Should One Meditate At All? What place does it have in one’s life? Not in the so-called spiritual, mystical, occultochemicalometaphysical life but the actual, everyday life?
When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, are aware of yourself, that is meditation. When one looks at oneself as one is directly and discovers how heavily the mind is conditioned, that is meditation. When one discovers the movement of one’s thoughts and feelings, that is meditation.
It can take place when you are sitting in a train or walking on the road, or looking at the trees or listening to the sound of birds. It is a state when the mind is still and there is total attention. It cannot be defined in positive terms because then it becomes a process, a technique, a method. And all methods are static, crystallized and binding. When you understand the whole process of your thinking and feeling, it brings about a freedom from thought and feeling in which the mind and the whole being becomes very quiet. With that quietness, you can look at nature, you can look at people, and you can look at the sky and the stars. Then there is silence and that silence is beauty.
Any of those making sense to any of you pepz? I'm still trying to find myself through though *lolz* Anyway keep those smile bright on your face.. take care & ha-pink-ness always aite! big luvvv xxxhugzxxx toodlesss >>> EWey!!!
p.s. ILY my friend (you know who you're & I know you're alwayz peeking in here ;p) or should I say my current no.1 hater whom I dearly adore - I'll make myself disappear for a while, try not to miss me instead have fun & trust me you'll love it when I'm gone..if that's really making you happy, I promise I'll vanish forever..oh! don't worry about my heart 'cos according to you I aint got any..alwayz luv yah sweetie! =)
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