meditation is Absolutley not possible

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Hi Tony,

 

What magic is happening in your life today?

>>How is it possible that anyone can teach anybody meditation? Or

>>perhaps it's the use of that word meditation, when what is meant is

>>contemplation or concentration or one pointedness.

 

Yes, it's the word that is the problem, it always is. What is "meant" is

never what is said. "Meditation" can't be taught, meditation happens

where/when it will. You can teach "methods" of "meditation" and there are

zillions of them, all good, all marvelous play. While one is sitting in

meditation grappling with hope and fear, one isn't out robbing little old

ladies, commiting to bad relationships, eating too many cookies, saying mean

things to someone etc., thus meditation has a healthy effect on society.

 

Actually, this isn't true. when you see people gathered together in a group

in the local hall, ashrama, church or temple, they are not there to practice

meditation, this is just the conventional cover for radical activity. They

really have arrived at the appointed hour to receive a lineage transmission

from deep inner space. And they have been doing this before time began.

Other people who do not do this don't know what radical plotting is going on

behind the cover of "meditation" and so are not disturbed.

 

Actually, this isn't true either. There are no "people" as such - just the

shadow forms of the memories of people who came from outer space zillions of

years ago - the "meditators" are the memories of those who didn't go home,

and have long since forgotten how to (Or like to pretend they have for fun).

Meditation class is the airport. No airplane needed.

 

Actually, this isn't true either. "Meditators" are actually multi-valence

workers duplicating multidimentional realities on the atomic level -

"valence" is the capacity of something to unite or interact with something

else. Like everything in life, they appear to be doing something but in

actuality are doing something else quite mysterious, they are being done-by.

 

Actually, this isn't true either. Nothing is happening.

 

So - you just don't really know what is really going on with this

"meditation" thingy. The best way to find out what is really going on is to

go somewhere with other people and not talk for at the very least ten days.

 

Re- one-pointedness - there's the chicken-practice. Put the beak of a

chicken along a straight line and he'll stay there forever - very

one-pointed. The problem with chicken one-pointedness is that no insight

possible and not even an egg laid. Better to just sit on one's own egg and

keep it really warm and cozy, but not too warm, until it hatches.

 

When it hatches, this No-egg Egg.....something might happen, or not.

 

"Indifferent to the little outpost Mind,

He dwelt in the wideness of the Eternal's reign.

His being now exceeded thinkable space,

His boundless thought was neighbour to cosmic sight:

A universal light was in his eyes,

A golden influx flowed through heart and brain;

A force came down into his mortal limbs,

A current from eternal seas of Bliss;

He felt the invasion and the nameless joy,

Aware of his occult omnipotent Source,

Allured by the omniscient Ecstacy.

A living center of the Illimitable

Widened to equate the world's circumference." (Savitri-Sri Aurobindo)

 

Metta,

 

Joyce