Meditation is a very unique tool that allows mind to settle and gain clarity. This also results in increased awareness, assurance and happiness. In the daily hustle and bustle of modern life, we have lost touch with our deeper self. We are always busy with tightly packed schedules revolving around family and work that we have no time for ourselves or in other word 'our self'. Thus we lose touch with our feelings, sensations and thoughts.
Meditation is basically taking time aside from our daily routine and ruminating over things as they are. It is an act of observation. Meditation as is commonly practice and understood is flawed. Meditation has become an act of concentration where people force their minds to focus on a particular object or thought. Some focus on their breath, some on a spot on the wall and some on their favorite deity. The mind of course wants to wander and one forces the mind to restrict itself to the object of meditation. This is a very futile activity. One usually comes out of this kind of meditation rather fatigued and a severe mental strain. All this nonsense as it widely practiced and taught is not meditation.
Meditation is a state of mind rapt with attention. An attention that is all inclusive and looks at everything in utmost detail. It looks at everything in its totality and not on the various parts that make the whole. Mediation is to be aware of every fleeting thought and feeling without condemnation, judgement or correction. It is observing to find out what the reality is. Any condemnation, judgement or delight in what one observes is due to one's conditioning and thus a movement away from the reality. As you do not condemn or take delight in but just purely watch the thought and move with it, you understand the whole significance of every thought and every feeling. This brings great understanding and understanding brings the mind to a stand still.
Meditation is not control of body, senses or thought as people worldwide are practicing. It is also not some system where you focus on an image, a word or thought and keep on repeating it ad nauseam. The body must be relaxed, still but without any strain and should be in a comfortable position. One should be sensitive to various thoughts and feelings that arise. Mind with its constant chatter, diversions and forking in multitude of directions must settle down and become still.
Meditation needs a stupendously alert mind. It requires an understanding of the totality of life without any compartmentalization or fragmentation. For one to see and understand this totality, the mind should flow freely before it will eventually settle down on its own accord. If one forces this stillness of mind by controlling thought usually there is conflict in mind and a battle ensues between the mind's propensity to chatter and the forced control. If one does induce some stillness of the mind through this control, this stillness is short lived and dull. Not vibrant and alive in which every thought and feeling comes and goes against the backdrop of an active, alert mind which is silently watching as an aloof observer.
Lack of any identification with the various thoughts and feelings lets us see them for what they are and this brings tremendous energy, relief and liberation. The mind constantly chatters because it seeks to resolve its thoughts and feelings through experience, through understanding. When this experience, understanding comes about the mind becomes astonishingly alert and silent. It is in such a mind that creativity is born.
Meditation is basically taking time aside from our daily routine and ruminating over things as they are. It is an act of observation. Meditation as is commonly practice and understood is flawed. Meditation has become an act of concentration where people force their minds to focus on a particular object or thought. Some focus on their breath, some on a spot on the wall and some on their favorite deity. The mind of course wants to wander and one forces the mind to restrict itself to the object of meditation. This is a very futile activity. One usually comes out of this kind of meditation rather fatigued and a severe mental strain. All this nonsense as it widely practiced and taught is not meditation.
Meditation is a state of mind rapt with attention. An attention that is all inclusive and looks at everything in utmost detail. It looks at everything in its totality and not on the various parts that make the whole. Mediation is to be aware of every fleeting thought and feeling without condemnation, judgement or correction. It is observing to find out what the reality is. Any condemnation, judgement or delight in what one observes is due to one's conditioning and thus a movement away from the reality. As you do not condemn or take delight in but just purely watch the thought and move with it, you understand the whole significance of every thought and every feeling. This brings great understanding and understanding brings the mind to a stand still.
Meditation is not control of body, senses or thought as people worldwide are practicing. It is also not some system where you focus on an image, a word or thought and keep on repeating it ad nauseam. The body must be relaxed, still but without any strain and should be in a comfortable position. One should be sensitive to various thoughts and feelings that arise. Mind with its constant chatter, diversions and forking in multitude of directions must settle down and become still.
Meditation needs a stupendously alert mind. It requires an understanding of the totality of life without any compartmentalization or fragmentation. For one to see and understand this totality, the mind should flow freely before it will eventually settle down on its own accord. If one forces this stillness of mind by controlling thought usually there is conflict in mind and a battle ensues between the mind's propensity to chatter and the forced control. If one does induce some stillness of the mind through this control, this stillness is short lived and dull. Not vibrant and alive in which every thought and feeling comes and goes against the backdrop of an active, alert mind which is silently watching as an aloof observer.
Lack of any identification with the various thoughts and feelings lets us see them for what they are and this brings tremendous energy, relief and liberation. The mind constantly chatters because it seeks to resolve its thoughts and feelings through experience, through understanding. When this experience, understanding comes about the mind becomes astonishingly alert and silent. It is in such a mind that creativity is born.
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