Techniques for Meditation

[Guest guest]

Methods for meditation and what to consider when selecting your

method.

 

There are two basic methods of meditation practiced:

 

With your mind completely empty - concentrating on emptiness

With your full concentration on a particular object

 

Before we shall have a more in depth look into meditation and

understand the above two different principles applied in meditation,

there are a few other questions to be answered:

 

What is meditation

Why do people meditate

What do people expect from meditation

What is the purpose of meditation in spiritual traditions

How can we achieve this goal

 

What is meditation ?

 

An extended and continuous concentration on a single object, with

this object being the only thought in your mind, may be a good

definition of meditation. If you can practice this for more than 5

minutes with one single object in your mind and ALL your

concentration being directed continuously on that particular object,

then you may have reached a good beginners level of meditation-

practice. How easy or how difficult it can become to accomplish this,

depends on the object you concentrate on. If you keep God in your

mind it shall become quite easy, as God is Love, peace, harmony,

tranquility, health and all the powerful positive aspects you may

imagine.

 

Why do people meditate?

 

Daily life may often cause lots of turmoil in your mind and emotions.

Stress with your job, your family and political or economical

situation of your surroundings of your life may cause lots of

anxiety, fears, emotions and thoughts, acting like a storm inside

you. Mankind on earth has most often forgotten to live according to

spiritual laws and Divine principles of God's creation. So they are

sometimes creating Karma several times each day almost on a

continuous basis.

 

Another reason for meditation is an advanced spiritual technique.

Extended meditation by fully concentrating on an object, until

becoming one with the object of meditation leads to the knowledge

about the object. This technique is called Samyama. It is a technique

that may be used to get an answer about important spiritual

questions, or find solutions for important situations of your life.

But as a beginner you may practice thousands of hours of meditation

before you may become one with the object of meditation. What is is

slowing down your success ? Your anxieties, your expectations about

the answer, your desires, preoccupation, ... your ego.

 

So instead of practicing in the beginning of your spiritual path

Samyama, you would get much better results if you start continuously

working on your spiritual progress by dissolving all your ego, your

wishes, .... in the fire of Divine Love. If once all your personality

has been filled with the Divinity of your soul - made to the image of

God - then you may need only minutes or seconds to achieve knowledge

about an object, since one with God, you may have easy access of all

the knowledge you truly need. Intuition is the advanced method of

achieving knowledge about important objects in God's creation. You

simply look at something and you may instantly know everything that

might be important for the moment.

 

The use of meditation to gain peace within and to concentrate on God,

the Divine is the recommended method and use of meditation. Some

important spiritual wisdom may however be achieved to help you to

understand the true meaning of life on earth in a physical body and

to speed up your spiritual progress. You may find a few important and

helpful questions to meditate and / or think about in another chapter

or you may ask God to help you understand it before falling asleep in

night time. Receiving an answer through meditation is much different

than reading it. When receiving an answer by meditation then you are

fully aware even within yourself of the full content and meaning of

the answer. By reading an answer you may intellectually know it, keep

it stored in your physical brain without having it ever understood.

For that particular reason many wise man from the past have written

questions to meditate about - rather than provided intellectual

answers. One such examples may be the Yoga Sutras from Patanjali, or

Lao Tse.

 

to be continued...