Dao Yoga Tai Chi Qigong Studio Classes in Walnut Creek.: What is meditation?

Question: "What is meditation?"

This is a question and a simple and sophisticated. Meditation itself is nothing like staying in the reality of the individual consciousness, stay current in every moment, in every present moment of time - the "here and now". By definition, Jiddu Krishnamurti: "Meditation - is the utter devastation of the mind." If the consciousness of the human mind and meditative, it is directly linked to the divine. It descends the Divine Power, it transforms his mind, his body, his whole being. "Nemeditativnoe" consciousness does not allow a person is in real time and is open to the evolutionary transformation. It is possible violent downward pressure Evolutionary Energy, which were different kind of trouble related to mental and physical health. However, in these cases, neither of which harmonious change of consciousness can not be considered. Harmonious painless transformation occurs only when the conscious opening downward flow of energy.

Now, about the kinds of meditation.

Philistine meditation - is sitting in a chair in a dark room, with eyes closed, completely relaxed muscles, in this case, it is desirable to introduce yourself floating in boundless ocean. This kind of meditation - entertainment, not a means of radical transformation of consciousness of the seeker.

Before you sit down and nothing to think, to learn to see thoughts. See how thoughts arise in your mind, in your mind. Try to watch them, try not to let them into the active consciousness. Five to ten seconds, you will be able to deal with them, but then they start to precipitate, pester, just bite into you, to fully develop your active mind. It is their goal - to show by any means.

What is thought? Thought - this is an energy (vibration) formation that comes to the mind of man, as it were from the outside and seek by all means there realized. Thought always needs attention and energizing. If in your mind there is a vibration identity of thought, idea or desire, then it (mental formations) is easier to implement it in you - you are sure to feed her. If you love to eat, and while meditating in you is thought to eat something you particularly favorite, it is unlikely that you can easily get rid of the thought. As a result, the meditative state is destroyed. In short, sitting with his eyes closed and control thoughts - employment rather boring, in fact, it does not lead to real results, in terms of the transformation of consciousness.

Another widespread form of meditation. I call this meditation special or ascending (meditation "upward") . In this meditation, the meditator sits in silence with closed or open eyes and tries to raise the energy of the base of the spine up. To do this, go up the eyeballs ("rolled") up and pull for an internal energy from the base of the spinal column. With the acquisition of certain skills is able to carry out. Over time, the consciousness of the meditator gains the ability to penetrate into the overlying plans, where he (the meditator) finds respite in the vibrating silence. If he manages such a long time to practice meditation, his individual consciousness acquires the ability to break out of the body in nirvanic spaces, in the sphere of white silence, and rest there from the hardships of earthly existence. When consciousness returns to the physical body, the person becomes uncomfortable, and he once again there is an urgent need to repeat the experience. And so again and again. This kind of special meditation, which is widely used in the practice of Buddhism followers, leads, as rightly observed by Sri Aurobindo, to escape from evolution. When you follow the practice of meditation, looking upward is not in contact with a downward evolutionary energy. Running in a higher sphere, he hides it from reality, hiding from the most important - of the progressive evolutionary movement. Special meditation " up "can be very careful to use the second of the Way of Conscious Evolution as an aid for the final lifting Kundalini energy for the full and complete disclosure of the crown chakra. Once this happens, the need for meditation is no longer rising.

What exactly is an active meditation in real time ("here and now"), and how it should be implemented in the asylum following the path of Conscious Evolution? Process of active meditation "here and now" is not sitting with his eyes closed in a quiet room in complete isolation from the outside world, on the contrary - it is looking for productive activity to the presence of active consciousness in real time. For example, you go on the road, do not consider the steps and do not look at your feet, do not you think where to start, but your active consciousness is directly in the process of moving on the road. This means that in the process of walking you do not "walk" the mind neither in the past nor in the future, do not swim in your thoughts and ideas, and just go.If you dig the ground, chopping wood, or reading a book, your mind must be active in the process of digging the land, chopping wood, or reading a book, nothing else in active consciousness should not enter. If you brush your teeth - that clean! If you eat - then eat, and not be distracted by extraneous conversations, watching TV or reading. Initially, the implementation of meditation "here and now" presents some difficulties, but with running the appropriate skill its effectiveness is growing rapidly. The practice of this meditation is akin to the ancient Indian active karma-yoga practice - quietly do their work without the distraction of any extraneous thoughts and questions in the course of performing any work.

Now another form of active meditation - playing an active meditation with conscious will. Play an active meditation is a deliberate attempt to form a kind of looking at the game to release the active mind of thoughts and desires, which allows the active consciousness is at the current time - the "here and now". In the initial stages of the Path of Conscious Evolution active meditation should be practiced at all times, when searching free from binding or minutely necessary cases.

Meditation should begin as a game, not allowing the penetration of vibrations of thought to the active consciousness by "repulsion" of the contour of the head before they have time to put it in words, that is mentalised. After some time to do it is becoming harder and harder, and in the consciousness of the seeker (the contour of the head) there is a palpable tension. The next step is a game that lets the vibration of thought seeking to active consciousness, where they find verbal expression, but does not pay any attention to them, just watching them, not engaging in meaningful game. Thought is seeking sees it, but she did not touch them. Sooner or later, a thought will make looking to give her attention. Once this happens, the whole idea captures active consciousness seeker and seeks at all costs be realized. It is a sign for the beginning of a new cycle game meditation again active "repulsion" of thought vibrations from the contour of the head and monitor the "break" thoughts without entering into dialogue with them. Play this game every spare moment. Play it instead of idle talk, instead of an empty hanging the TV or reading a detective. Do not set yourself any goals during the game, be children! No matter how much time you can keep your mind free of thoughts. Any time gap between thoughts opens the way your body down-current of evolutionary energy.

If you practice this kind of active meditation, a change in consciousness will not hesitate to say, and you will feel that the ideas now and do not really want you to go for the simple reason that you do not give them implemented. That part of your mind that once was not indifferent to these thoughts, now becomes ambivalent. Thought, as any unrealized formation directed to where they will be easier to be realized. Remember that when you are actively meditate, your mind works in a downward evolutionary energy - the universal engine of evolution.

Active Meditation by J. Krishnamurti - Meditation on the birth of thought . This meditation, I recommend to all: someone just at the initial stage of meditation as a way of understanding the mechanism of thinking, and someone as the main means of meditation on the Way of Conscious Evolution. This meditation allows us to observe the birth of ideas. You sit down and quietly watched as in your active mind born of thought. You see, as a thought, still in the form of vibration, as it tries to enter into your mind, as it tries to put on a verbal expression (mentalised), and finally she manages it, and it is by all means trying to call you in response. If you impassively watching the birth process of thought, without being drawn into the internal dialogue, the energy of the total realization of the observed process dissolves the incoming thoughts without a trace, and your mind eventually becomes empty.

There is another type of meditation - meditation for the lazy, which is advisable to practice before going to sleep. This is a special top-down meditation - Meditation "by the nose" . Meditation "by the nose" is remarkable in that it allows you to maintain a meditative work, even during sleep. Lying in bed, close your eyes, a little mow them on his nose, and in silence, in the form of the game, without strain, without letting thoughts in active consciousness, to peer into the dark space in front of him. In this case, try as much as possible not to fall asleep, but to keep the borderline state between sleep and wakefulness. With this meditation quickly installed downstream current evolutionary energy, and work to transform your consciousness goes a long time and after falling asleep. If it is difficult or painful to look a long time to focus on the tip of the nose, it can be easy, stress-free, staring with eyes closed in the space in front of him.

Thus, the implementation presented arsenal of meditation enables the seeker almost always be in a meditative state - a state of total meditation . At total meditation descending evolutionary energy will actually run continuously in your mind, actively transforming it. As a result, in the short term can not go through the first four stages of the Path of Conscious Evolution and relatively soon realize the act of birth of the psychic being - the act of birth in the Spirit.

Once the psychic being revealed and come to the fore, active meditation, transformed into spontaneous meditation . In spontaneous meditation are no longer required special efforts to ensure that store active consciousness free from thoughts. "Automatic" control of the meditative process takes on the psychic being, which provides spontaneous meditation. In this way, your mind is able to constantly communicate with the descending evolutionary energy, with reality, with the Divine Consciousness.Spontaneous Meditation allows your mind stay in the present moment of time, the "here and now", that is, in Eternity. Consciousness dwells in eternity, is truly religious consciousness .

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