THE MEDITATION AND ITS USES (FOUR STAGES OF MIND)

 

                                     WHAT IS MEDITATION?

                                 FOR EXAMPLE, CONCENTRATING ON THE BREATHING.

                                ANS : HAVE WE NOT ALREADY TALKED OF CONCENTRATION? TO CONCENTRATE IS TO FORCE THE MIND TO A PARTICULAR OBJECT, AND THE MND DOES NOT LIKE BEING FORCED. SO, IS MEDITATION ABOUT CONCENTRATON? THEN THE MIND WILL NEVER ARGREE WITH MEDITATION. OR, IS MEDITATION SOMETHING ELSE?

                         WHAT IS MEDITATION? THE VERY ACTION OF A PARTICULAR MIND IS CALLED MEDITATION. WHATEVER YOU DO IN PEACE IS MEDITATION. THIS IS MEDITATION. THAT IS MEDITATION. ALL IS MEDITATION.

                            MEDITATION DOES NOT BRING PEACE. MEDITATION BEGINS IN PEACE. PEACE IS NOT THE END OF MEDITATION, PEACE IS THE BEGINNING OF MEDITATION.

                     YOU CANNOT MEDITATE IN ORDER TO BE PEACEFUL. WHEN YOU ARE PEACEFUL, ALL IS MEDITATION.

                           AND WHAT PREVENTS YOU FROM BEING PEACEFUL? THE IDEA THAT YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO GET PEACE. SO, THE VERY EFFORT TO MEDITATE IS  A BARRIER TO MEDITATIVENESS.

THE VERY ACTION OF A PEACEFUL MIND IS CALLED MEDITATION. WHATEVER YOU DO IN PEACE IS MEDITATION.

PEACE IS NOT THE END OF MEDITATION. PEACE IS THE BEGINNING OF MEDITATION.

                              THE FOUR STATES OF MIND

                              THE FIRST STATE : THOUGHTS KEEP ARISING AND I GET LOST. MOST OF THE TIME, THESE THOUGHTS RELATE TO FEAR AND WORRIES.

                             THE SECOND STATE : I MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO THINK ABOUT SOMETHING, I AM AWARE OF THE DECISION, BUT THEN THE STUFF OF STAGE ONE INTERVENES AND CARRIES ME AWAY AGAIN.

                        THE THIRD STATE : I SIT SILENTLY DOING PRANAYAMA (BREATH CONTROL) AND PAYING ATTENTION TO THE BREATH. THOUGHS KEEP ARISING IN THE BACKGROUND. I TRY TO KEEP MY ATTENTION ON THE BREAH. I KEEP HEARING SOUNDS NEAR ME, BUT I STILL REMAIN ATTENTIVE.

                        THE FOURTH STATE : I AM WORKING ON SOMETHING AND COMPLETELY ABSORBED IN IT WITHOUT ANY THOUGHTS AND DON'T EVEN REALIZING ANYTHING HAPPENING AROUND ME. I AM JUST COMPLETELY ABSORBED IN WHAT I AM DOING.

                        IT IS NATURAL TO OBSERVE THIS? ARE THESE ALL THE SAME OR DIFFERENT? AND BY DOING IT, WILL I GO CLOSER TO A BETTER QUALITY OF ATTENTION OR DHYANA (MEDITATION) , IR IS IT ANOTHER TRICK OF THE MIND?

                             WHEN YOU ARE MENTIONING THESE FOUR STATES, YOU ARE PROBABLY ASSUMING A PROGRESSION. THE FIRST STATE IS WHEN THOUGHTS ARISE AND TAKE YOU AWAY, IT IS ALMOST LIKE GETTING KIDNAPPED . AND IN THE FOURTH STATE, YOU ARE TALKING OF THE DISSAPPEARANCE OF THOUGHTS. IN THE FOURTH STATE, YOU SAY IN ARE JUST COMPLETELY ABSORBED IN WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

STOP BEING A WATCHMAN. ATTENTION IS NOT ABOUT KEEPING AN EYE ON YOURSELF. ATTENTION IS ABOUT BEING AN ATTENDANT TO THE TRUTH. ATTENTIONIS ABOUT NOT GETTING IDENTIFIED WITH WHATEVER YOU ARE PHENOMENALLY DOING.

 

                    LIBERATION, MEDITATION, HEART, 

                                         AND FREE WILL

                               WHAT IS LIBERATION?

                           WHAT IS BONDAGE? THERE IS NOTHING CALLED LIBERATION, NOTHING AT ALL. IT'S JUST THAT BECAUSE THERE IS BONDAGE, HENCE THERE IS LIBERATION. IN THE ABSENCE OF BONDAGE YOU ARE LIBERATED FROM LIBERATION AS WELL.

                          QUES :    IS MEDITATION THE ONLY WAY TO ATTAIN LIBERATION?

                          ANS :

                         WHAT IS MEDITATION? IF MEDITATION MEANS CHALLENGING YOUR BONDAGES, THEN YES, IF MEDITATION MEANS DOING THIS AND THAT, THEN NO.

                         QUES : DOES LIBERATION MEAN THAT WE ARE FREE FROM ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES?

                       ANS : FIRST OF ALL, YOU CANNOT USE THE WORD "RESPONSIBILITY" IN THE SAME BREATH, IN TWO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS. THAT WHICH WE KEEP ON DOING ON A DAILY BASIS, IF THAT IS WHAT IS TO BE CALLED AS RESPONSIBILITY, THEN LIBERATION IS NO RESPONSIBILITY AT ALL. AND IF LIBERATION IS THE REAL RESPONSIBILITY THEN THERE CAN BE NO OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES.

 

 

                            YOU CANNOT SAY THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MEETING YOUR QUARTERLY SALES TARGET AND YOU ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIBERATION. CHOOSE THE WORD CAREFULLY.

                        QUES : WHY IT IS SO EASY TO FALL INTO BONDAGE?

                             ANS : IT IS ATTRACTIVE AND IT CARRIES THE NAME OF LIBERATION. LET BONDAGE COME TO YOU HONESTLY DECLARING IT IS BONDAGE, AND THEN WE WILL SEE WHETHER BONDAGE ATTRACTS YOU. BECAUSE YOU ARE A GREAT LOVER OF LIBERATION, THEREFORE BONDAGE MANAGES TO DUPE YOU.

 

                       LOVE WITHOUT WISDOM MEANS A LOT OF SUFFERING.

THE QUESTION IS NOT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AT THE END OF THE JOURNEY. THE QUESTION IS HOW ARE YOU DOING ALONG THE JOURNEY. LIFE IS THE JOURNEY.

                   WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEELINGS AND VOICE OF THE HEART?

                       IN THE EAST, IN FACT EVERYWHERE IN THE SPIRITUAL DOMAIN, THE HEART HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN TO REPRESENT THE CENTER OF FEELINGS. IT IS THE CENTER OF WISDOM. THE MIND IS TAKEN AS THE CENTER OF ALL MENTAL ACTIVITY, AND ALL MENTAL ACTIVITY INCLUDES BOTH THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS.

                   SO THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS BOTH EMANATE FROM THE MIND. WISDOM, REALIZATION, THAT'S WHAT THE HEART IS ABOUT. SO, HEART HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FEELINGS.

                           SO NOTHING IS PRESET. YOU HAVE FREE WILL, FREE WILL DOES EXIST. YOU BETTER ALIGN YOUR FREE WILL WITH YOUR EVENTUAL AND TOTAL FREEDOM. DON'T MISUSE FREE WILL.

                         WHAT IS THE LIMITATION OF FREE WILL? IT IS FREE TO GO BERSERK. IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ALL MADNESS. IT IS FREED TO MAKE ALL THE WRONG DECISIONS. BUT IT IS NOT FREE TO ULTIMATELY NOT BE LIBERATED. ULTIMATELY, FREE WILL HAS TO SURRENDER TO LIBERATION. BUT HOW LONG WOULD THAT TAKE? THAT DEPENS TOTALLY ON YOU.

                             HENCE, ALIGN YOUR FREE WILL WITH FREEDOM. CHOOSE RIGHTLY.