MEDITATION.

Before we can meditate, we have to know why we are meditating. Of course we can meditation to just relax and feel good, and that is a good start. But then meditation can become a life style, too precious and must not be interrupted…making us angry!

There are two approaches to meditation, one is meditation with support and then without support,

this is called Shiney and Vipashana. One start here, and gradually what is beneficial is revealed and what is not beneficial drops away. This is a very sound and excellent approach, and is useful to come back to. What is gradually revealed is the “nature of mind”. There are many instructions on this approach, and we will go into them.

The other way is to be introduced to the “nature of mind” and then meditation is merely its continuity. There are not many instructions on this! When the mind gets too foggy or excited one then we use the meditations with and without support, to bring the mind back to balance.

Much will depend on the aspirant’s temperament, and what they meet in their lives. It may be significant that you are reading this now!

There other forms of meditation: Devotion, Compassion, Analysis and bodily movement.

All are about taking the “business as usual “I” out of the picture. We cannot find truth with fixated concepts, we need the practice of genuine experience. However concepts can be used as a tool to unwind the mind!

So to proceed, we need to practise, then the questioning refines. Otherwise the search for truth merely stays at a conceptual level, and we cannot breakout. Gradually we will connect with the inner teacher…in-tuition. This will then lead to seeing all outer and inner phenomena as the teacher.

We could go mechanically step by step, but we first need to get a ‘feel’ of the view.

All the best,

Tony