beyond the immaterial

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Q: What time is most suitable for meditation ?

 

Maharshi:

What is time ? It is only an idea.

However you think of it, so it will appear.

If you call it time , it is time.

If you call it existence it is existence ,

and so on.

Time is immaterial for the jnana path , though

certain times are good for beginners.

 

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Good thing I am always a beginner . . .

Who finds this answer about as much

use as a bat in an answering machine?

Have no fear - it is a good answer

but here is another:

People unwilling or undisciplined enough to

not meditate - do not.

Those in a meditative mind - aware mind

can always do meditation as easily as not.

So now time . . .

On the whole people are more attentive and focused

first thing in the morning and before meals.

Drowsy after meals and in the evening.

If you have great devotion to a Guru

you can just stare at a pic or heart visualise them.

Or you can be attentive to an inner rhythm such as

the breath or a word such as 'harmony'.

You can chant.

I have just finished my morning puja

- being a beginner I have a set time for this.

Maharishi like all great souls makes

us aware of being beginners.

Of course like all great souls

compared to that ahead

- they are just beginners :-)

 

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