Lets Meditate The Right Way
Friends,
I have been discussing in various forums on this topic and may be I can summarize something useful for everyone here.
Lets take a case study based approach and see how we can really improve meditation. No! I am not trying to be a salesman. But may be I can share a little understanding "Free" [of course nothing is free... one has to apply oneself and read and digest this, isn't it ?].
Case Study 1:
A relative of mine, once told me "My son does not have any concentration on his studies. I think meditation can help him". This is very common. And many swami ji's would say "yes yes, take him through a meditation session , its just Rs 1500 only !"
When I went to her home I saw this guy watching a cricket match ... he was watching it with so much concentration that even if you yell he would not even pay attention! Now is that not concentration ?
Now friends ... please understand ... mind is like this. Its designed to be like this. Where there is interest, there is concentration. Automatic. One needs no practice for it. And if something does not interest you ... however hard you may try, concentrating would be very difficult. This is how the mind is designed. So when my concentration is lacking , what does it mean ? I do not like it ! Or my interest is elsewhere. So what do I correct first ? The interest levels or the practice ?
That's why I often say "Long before sitting for meditation, become meditative"! This is common experience ... some times , after reading a few pages of gospel of Ramakrishna or Ramana or may be after studying some spiritual text ... mind behaves exceptionally! You just sit down for meditation and its as if you can sit like that for any long ! That's simply because one is meditative... the interest levels are high, thanks to the readings. So long before I can meditate, I have to become meditative.
Ok, so is this the suggestion: "Before sitting for meditation study a book of Ramakrishna/Ramana etc" ?
No! Because its temporary suggestion. A temporary high. A transient phase ... wont help.
So what can be done ?
The purpose of this thread is exactly this. I will continue this thread ... slowly and based upon reader involvement. Those interested may benefit.
Love!
Silence
Come up, O Lions, and shake off the delusion that you are a sheep
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