THE ART OF MEDITATION
One of the most essential factors for a successful meditation is to be able to withdraw from the object and its visible form, so that the object’s inner significance and meaning could be recognized.
Meditation should not have an object. Meditation is a kind of consciousness without contents, consciousness without a single thought or desire. It extends into infinity, it reflects the sky with all its stars, the cosmos with all its galaxies. True Meditation is the whole Universe.
Can meditation be learnt? Or maybe it is like love, a state of our Beings that comes to us as a gift. The river wants to reach the ocean. The seed wants to spring from the ground, but if the ground is covered with stones it will not be able to fulfil its purpose. Those stones are our numerous prejudices, accumulated throughout centuries. We can say that our meditation is suppressed under the burden of prejudices.
In meditation we should not rely on our thinking process. If we are able to dissociate ourselves from the costant flow of thoughts, our meditative qualitiy will come forward. It will not come as a gift, it is already there. It is the essence of our Being, our Nature. Love is very much alike. When meditation occurs, love is its flavour.
Being meditative but without love to accompany the meditaton means that only a mental exercise is performed, not the true meditation. If we believe that we are able to love, but we are not meditative, than our love is only lust. We can not learn how to meditate in a direct way, like mathematics. If we want to learn meditation we should forget about the intellectual processes. If we want to learn love, we should forget about anger, possessiveness, and jealousy. Love and meditation establish our core substance.
Both the problem and the solution are in our mental body. The mental body as ego is a problem. The mental body without our ego is a solution. Our ego is part of our personality and often stands in the way toward greater consciousness. It tends to keep us preoccupied, so that we have no time to keep an eye on its manifestations. To observe means to be unoccupied. Therefore, not even the mantra-meditation, so popular in the Eastern sprititual tradition, is realy a deep meditation, but rather a state of inner preoccupation. It only replaces one kind of absorption with another, hoping that in the end the absorption will vanish altogether.
The harmony of our mind, heart and will lead toward the unified consciousness. We are not going to find ourselves liberated in this higher state of consciousness and be able to go beyond the limitations of our mental bodies untill we have learnt how to be unoccupied. Our mind wants to be assigned a job. If we give it something to do, some objective, we will be preoccupied and our ego mind will survive. Our mind never leaves us under the clear unclouded sky. It keeps our eyes in darkness, filled with dust of desires, memories, thoughts, asociatons, and imaginations, all in order to prevent us from seeing the reality as it is. We are always somewhere else, not here, and not now. To BE here and now means to be unoccupied. Our mind can be busy only in the past or in the future. The present is destructive to the ego. The present leaves us open, receptive, vulnerable, ecstatic, but not engaged.
Whenever we are “here and now” God is present, since “here and now” our mental body as ego ceases to exist; it dissolves and vanishes on the psychic level of the Immortal Trinity. The mind as ego can exist only in conjunction with the nonexistent. Being artificial, it uses arificial means in its defence. There are two most unreal phenomena – the past which is no longer here and the future which is not yet here. In between the two, there is a small time interval. This interval is so tiny that unless we are absolutely alert and conscious, we can be certain it will be lost. This is the door to the Truth, to the Reality. This is the ability of abstraction, of leaving the shallow areas of our mind and plunging into the depths of the Immortal Trinity.
In order to be able to transcend our mental body, so that the consciousness is able to act beyond ist reach, first we need to attain the ability of focussing the mind on a certain idea, not allowing for the usual broad scope of thoughts and ideas. Later on, when we have mastered the ability of going deeper into the selected idea for a longer period of time without fluctuations and external influences, we can make the next important step – expel this idea out of our mind, and still be focused and conscious without even a single object in the glare of our consciousness. What happens afterwards is that the consciousness is able to reach the higher planes of existence, gaining direct knowledge of its nature, immortality, Divine life, and Sweet Divine Will, accepting life as it is, and finaly entering the very Unifying Source. This experience can change our life in essence. Once we are back in the areas of our mental body, the limitations of the lower planes will still be there, but our new experience makes
us see the world from a new point of view.
Meditation is a fourfold path of purity: pure prayer, pure light, pure energy and pure love. Divine flavour and glow radiate from those blessed individuals that reside in the Eternal. Meditation is the way toward higer Spirituality.
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