What You Needed To Know About Meditation
Meditation is the easiest process for bringing stillness to the mind.
With regular practice, patience and determination the practitioner brings focus, quietude and poise to the normally busy and distracted mind.
By emptying the mind of all thoughts is to leave it as a pure and vigilant wholeness on which the divine knowledge may come and imprint itself, undisturbed by the inferior thoughts of the ordinary physical mind.
Where the practitioner rejects all mental thought freeing it from the mechanical process of thinking opening it to the pure perception of divine Truth.
There are no essential external conditions for meditation, but solitude and seclusion at the time of meditation as well as stillness of the body are helpful, these are particularly necessary for the beginner.
But one should not be bound by external conditions.
Once the practice of meditation is established it should be possible to do it in all situations, sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silence or in the midst of noise.
The first internal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation, i.
e.
wandering of the mind, impatience and restlessness.
The second is an increasing purity and calmness of the inner consciousness out of which thought and emotion arise e.
g.
a freedom from all disturbing reactions, such as anger, grief, depression and anxiety.
Meditation has the power of transforming your being.
You may meditate to open yourself to the divine force, you may meditate to reject the ordinary mundane unaspiring consciousness, and you may meditate to enter into the still inner depths of your being.
You may meditate to enter into peace and calm and silence.
You can also meditate to receive the force of transformation and to discover the points that need to be transcended.
You can also meditate for very practical reasons: when you have a difficulty to resolve, a solution to find, when you want some help in action or another situation.
But if an individual wants their meditation to be dynamic, they must have the aspiration for transcendence and the meditation must be done to help and fulfil this aspiration for progress.
As a part of meditation concentration is the gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising it at one point or turning it to a single object e.
g.
the Divine; there can also be a gathered awareness throughout the whole being.
During your meditation you can gather yourself like this, remaining quiet or observing what comes into your consciousness and discriminating if it is an expanding positive reality or a distracting thought.
Sri Chinmoy the meditation teacher says, (1) "We make tremendous improvement through meditation.
This is the only way of improving any part of life; there is no other way to make abiding progress.
But we don't ignore anything.
The negative aspects of life are also part and parcel of Mother Earth.
If we ignore them, what will happen? They will come again and attack our near ones and dear ones.
So what we do is try to change them, transform them.
And it is meditation that makes you strong and powerful".
Ref: (1) From Sri Chinmoy's book - Meditation
With regular practice, patience and determination the practitioner brings focus, quietude and poise to the normally busy and distracted mind.
By emptying the mind of all thoughts is to leave it as a pure and vigilant wholeness on which the divine knowledge may come and imprint itself, undisturbed by the inferior thoughts of the ordinary physical mind.
Where the practitioner rejects all mental thought freeing it from the mechanical process of thinking opening it to the pure perception of divine Truth.
There are no essential external conditions for meditation, but solitude and seclusion at the time of meditation as well as stillness of the body are helpful, these are particularly necessary for the beginner.
But one should not be bound by external conditions.
Once the practice of meditation is established it should be possible to do it in all situations, sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silence or in the midst of noise.
The first internal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation, i.
e.
wandering of the mind, impatience and restlessness.
The second is an increasing purity and calmness of the inner consciousness out of which thought and emotion arise e.
g.
a freedom from all disturbing reactions, such as anger, grief, depression and anxiety.
Meditation has the power of transforming your being.
You may meditate to open yourself to the divine force, you may meditate to reject the ordinary mundane unaspiring consciousness, and you may meditate to enter into the still inner depths of your being.
You may meditate to enter into peace and calm and silence.
You can also meditate to receive the force of transformation and to discover the points that need to be transcended.
You can also meditate for very practical reasons: when you have a difficulty to resolve, a solution to find, when you want some help in action or another situation.
But if an individual wants their meditation to be dynamic, they must have the aspiration for transcendence and the meditation must be done to help and fulfil this aspiration for progress.
As a part of meditation concentration is the gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising it at one point or turning it to a single object e.
g.
the Divine; there can also be a gathered awareness throughout the whole being.
During your meditation you can gather yourself like this, remaining quiet or observing what comes into your consciousness and discriminating if it is an expanding positive reality or a distracting thought.
Sri Chinmoy the meditation teacher says, (1) "We make tremendous improvement through meditation.
This is the only way of improving any part of life; there is no other way to make abiding progress.
But we don't ignore anything.
The negative aspects of life are also part and parcel of Mother Earth.
If we ignore them, what will happen? They will come again and attack our near ones and dear ones.
So what we do is try to change them, transform them.
And it is meditation that makes you strong and powerful".
Ref: (1) From Sri Chinmoy's book - Meditation
