WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDITATION?

WHAT IS MEDITATION ?

WHAT IS MEDITATION ? IS MEDITATION ABOUT UNDERSTANDING? WHAT IS MEANT BY PURIFYING THE MIND THROUGH MEDITATION? THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION IS MENTIONED AT MANY PLACES. WHAT IS THIS PRACTICE ABOUT? IS THERE ANY METHODLESS METHOD TO ATTAIN THE UNCHANGED UNDERSTANDING OR MEDITATIVE STATE?

"JUST AS GOLD, BY THOROUGH HEATHING IN FIRE, GIVES UP ITS IMPURITIES AND GAINS ITS OWN LUSTRE, SO TOO THE MIND THROUGH MEDITATION SHEDS ITS IMPURITIES OF SATTVA, RAJAS, AND TAMAS, AND ATTAINS THE NATURE OF BRAHMA".

THE QUESTION IS ABOUT MEDITATION. WHAT IS MEDITATION? IS THERE ANY METHODLESS METHOD? IS MEDITATION ABOUT UNDERSTANDING ? LET'S BEGIN FROM WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW OF. YOU KNOW OF THOUGHT, RIGHT? YOU KNOW OF THOUGHT. SO BEGIN WITH THOUGHT.

WHAT IS THOUGHT? THERE IS YOU AND THERE IS THE OBJECT YOU ARE THINKING OF , AND THERE IS A RELATION BETWEEN YOU AND THAT OBJECT. YOU DON'T JUST THINK OF ANYTHING. YOU DEFINE THE OBJECT YOU ARE THINKING OF. THE OBJECT THAT YOU THINK OF DEPENDS ON YOU, AND THE RELATIONSHIP IS ALWAYS OF EITHER FEAR OR GREED.

THAT WHICH ARE ARE EITHER WANTS OR REPELS. THAT WHICH YOU ARE IS EITHER GREEDY OR AFRAID. HE KNOWS NO OTHER STATE. THAT IS THOUGHT : YOU WANT SOMETHING.

WHAT IS MEDITATION THEN? MEDITATION IS WHEN YOU WANT THE HIGHEST ALONE. MEDITATION IS WHEN YOU ARE FED UP OF LOOKING AT THE SMALL. MEDITATION IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SMALL AND YOU SAY THAT "IF THIS IS ALL THAT I CAN LOOK AT, THEN IT CANNOT BE SMALL, IT HAS TO BE VERY, VERY LARGE."

MEDITATION IS WHEN YOU WANT THE HIGHEST ALONE. MEDITATIONN IS WHEN YOU ARE FED UP OF LOOKING AT THE SMALL.

MEDITATION IS WHEN NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH IS, THEREFORE, THE OBJECT YOU AIM AT.

I WANT THE TRUTH". YOU CAN SAY YOUR SOLE FOCUS, THEN, IS THE TRUTH. BUT THE TRUTH, AS WE KNOW, IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE THOUGHT OF, BECAUSE ONE IS TOO SMALL TO THINK IF THE TRUTH. THEREFORE, IF ONE STUBBORNLY INSISTS THAT NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH IS TO BE KNOWN, THEN EITHER ONE FAILS OR ONE BURSTS.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND. THERE IS A BALLON, IT CAN ONLY HOLD A LIMITED QUANTITY, A LIMITED VOLUME OF AIR. YOU TRY TO INFLATE IN BEYOND ITS PERMISSIBLE LIMIT, EITHER YOU WILL FAIL IN INFLATING IT AND THE BALLON WON'T GROW BEYOND A PARTICULAR SIZE, OR THE BALLOON WOULD BURST. MEDITATION IS THE BURSTING OF THE BALLON. THE BALLOON IS SAYING, "I WANT TO HOLD THE INFINITE. I WANT TO HOLD THE SKY. JUST HOLDING A LITTLE BIT OF AIR IS NO FUN. I WANT TO HOLD THE SKY". SO , THE BALLON BURSTS.

YOU ARE LOOKING AT SOMETHING AND YOU ARE CONTENTED WITH THE LOOKS YOU ARE CONTENTED WITH THE FORM, YOU ARE CONTENTED WITH THE LABEL - THEN MEDITATION IS NOT FOR YOU. MEDITATION IS WHEN YOU LOOK AND YOU ARE NOT CONTENTED. YOU SAY YOU WANT MORE. YOU SAY, "IT IS JUST NOT WANT IS APPEARS TO BE" . YOU WANT TO BE SHARPER, YOU WANT TO BE FINER.

THEREFORE, MEDITATION IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO EASILY SATISFIED. AND THEREFORE, MEDITATION IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO JUST WANT TO PRACTICE METHODS.

MEDITATION IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A TASTE FOR THE MYSTICAL.

MEDITATION IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A KNACK FOR THE UNKNOWABLE.

MEDITATION IS THE HONEST WAY OF LOOKING AT THE UNIVERSE, AND THAT INCLUDES YOURSELF. WHEN YOU ARE HONESLY LOOKING AT ANYTHING , YOU ARE MEDIATING. WHEN YOU ARE COMMITTED TO THE TRUGH, THEN YOU ARE MEDITATING.

AND WHEN YOU SAY THAT EVEN THE HALF-TRUGHS AND LIES ARE ACCEPTABLE, THEN IT IS BEYOND YOU TO MEDITATE. MEDITATION IS FOR THE DARING ONES, WHO SAY THAT, "WE ARE PREPARED TO DIE, WE ARE PREPARED TO DISAPPEAR, BUT WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE STORIES. WE WANT TO GO INTO THE DEEP, DARK CAVE ADN FIGURE OUT FOR OURSELVES WHAT LIES WITHIN".