Digest Number 241

November 29, 1999

Re: Meditation

In my experience with meditation, every one is different. We all desire the deep

and blissfull. But, then there are the others where the 60,000 thoughts and all

their buddies are on parade. The body rebels, and we start judging the

experience. I meditated for seven months for 10-16 hours a day and every single

time was a different experience. Sometimes I would rather chew nails than stay

in my bunk. But, I usually persisted and the thoughts quieted. Or sometimes I

would go and meditate by a pond for a different experience. Just know that the

body is releasing stress within the thoughts. They are actually a great vehicle

and part of the process of deepening the experience. If thoughts just go and go

and go, then focus on your body from within. Give it the attention it wants.

Soon the thoughts will dissappear and you will be back on track. It works like

magic. Another beautiful thing is that when you are on a course of long periods

of going within, the last days are exponetially equal in power to the combined

days before. Only we don't see it. Does a drop of water know the fullness of the

ocean? A frog can be heated up in water (so I have heard. yuk) to a great

degree, slowly and will die because it has been such a gradual process. But I

said that to illustrate this process. Don't judge what the experience is. As

soon as your thoughts are on God or whatever is your concept, you are there.

Trust that. And just allow the thoughts to go through without attachment. Don't

even try to push them away. Let them pass and think once more on God.

Thoughts...God...thoughts...God. Eventually only God will be there in whatever

that experience is for you. Just energy moving and old s--t healing out of the

depths of consciousness and from the cells of the body. I applaud you for the

forty days. Namaste Syena.

"OUR DESTINY IS TO BE HAPPY"

- Yogi Bhajan

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