Meditation

Meditation & Relaxation & More



Meditation gives us the placement to review the world and it's usually transient qualities with a clearer perception than the normal day-to-day activities of our lives would allow. From this position we can re-assess our lives with a view point not of what do I want, how do I get it and when will I get it, but one of when will we progress, how will we progress and what will we progress to - as a race.

Philosophers have long considered these questions but only when we use the tools of meditation can we see the grander scale of things, the whole picture as it were.

Participants of meditation have been known to remark that it is as if the meditator not only becomes part of the universe and everything within in but is actually the universe and everything wihtin in. It is said that the participant loses all ego and does not feel anymore but instead evolves dimensionally into the mass energy that is life. All the energies that make up people, things and the universe in amalgamation but essentially apart physically, in the concious world, become one in meditation. This is not to say that to be in meditation is to be unconcious. Participants of meditation are alert and aware of the world around them as they meditate but are nevertheless not concerned with it.

Meditation in itself is only a means to and end. To meditate is not to meditate. If you can say you are meditating then you are not meditating. If you are concentrating on meditating then are not meditating. Meditating is the state not the method. The method is breathing control, relaxation techniques etc. but meditation is where you get to, not what you do. This is reflected in the koan. The koan is a riddle that cannot be answered. They are sometimes used to meditate. An example:

If a pin drops in an empty forest and no-one is there to hear. Does it make a sound ?

The answer is not answerable since if no-one is there then whether the pin makes a sound or not cannot be determined. However, the mind (especially the Western mind) tries to answer it and looks for a solution. This in turn busies the mind on one thing, ignoring any other thoughts or issues. This is the penultimate state to meditation. The ultimate would be no thought at all. The mind is then said to be in meditation. This is also known as Nirvana. (From Sanskrit).

This non-thought state is more difficult to achieve than first appears. Every second of every day, your mind has thougthts, whether you are aware of them or not. To stop this process takes some many years, for others never. But the quest for this state of being has been going on since man first thought. Buddhist Monks in deepest Himalya are claimed to have recognised this state, and have become 'enlightened'. It is believe in that part of the world that to achieve 'enlightenment' takes several lifetimes. And each lifetime you achieve carries with it the progression of enlightenment. To become 'enlightened' in one lifetime allows the knowledge of the other lifetimes, which in turn allows enlightenment in the present lifetime and so on. . Does this not sound like a koan itself ?



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