MEDITATION

[Guest guest]

Chris, a while ago, I copied this definition of meditation from

somewhere. I would be grateful for your comments on its accuracy

and relevance to our practice, as meditation focus has always been

frustratingly elusive for me: Many thanks - John R.

 

" In meditation practice, we change the focus of our energy that

externalizes itself in sense perception, we consciously bring our

awareness within, reverse its seemingly natural flow, towards

objects, that we avoid and label, very fast, underneath our

conscious level. When we first sit for meditation, and close our

eyes, generally we hear a lot of thoughts, and see with varying

clarity many images, depending on the power we have given to these

images by our consciousness We may chase them, thinking of the

things we may need to do and what not. We can also still hear things

and smell things on the physical level, the sense of smell goes

first after sight, then physical feeling, yet sound may still be

there for a while. Then the awareness, through the practice of

refocusing on the breath is brought deeper than the thoughts, and we

start to have kind of a conscious dream state, for this is the stuff

that dreams are made of, where a lot of non-secators, non-linear,

abstract and layered forms and words, just randomly go through our

awareness, this is awareness of the sub-conscious, yet we are in a

state of witnessing them. This is where we store all our experiences

and understandings of those experiences. In this place we aren't

even aware of any of the gross senses or time in the usual sense.

Then our awareness goes deeper than this, into a void, where

feelings hide, subtle deep feelings, mainly fear is the one feeling,

fear is the first feeling, after seeming separation from the source,

when subtle body consciousness is created, which it doesn't even

know that a source of itself exists in this state. This feeling has

no definition, for it has no-thing to blame or hold on to about it,

it is a self existent feeling, which comes from a sense of

incompleteness. Deeper in the void is peace, this we experience in

deep dreamless sleep, yet we are unaware of it, in meditation, we

bring awareness to this state of deep sleep, and are able to

experience this feeling intensely, a deep sense of peace, as the

peace, with no sense of form as ego " I " or a sense of time, this is

the abode of time, where all time is unified, in deep black space,

this is where the power behind the senses gets real rest, yet we are

generally unaware of it, so because of this the psyche, doesn't

really receive the full benefit of this rest, its just energetic

rest, not full-on rest of the psychic instruments as in the peace is

not brought fully to the awareness of being, which can then carry

this peace back to the material realm. Beyond this void, or causal

body is the transcendental state, the state of pure awareness, that

is beyond time and space, the True undefined Self, Buddha Nature,

God-Consciousness, all pervasive reality, the substratum of

existence, core of being, the Tao. In Hinduism, there are many names

for this, three names used frequently are Brahman (impersonal

absolute reality) and also Mahashunya (great void) or the meditative

state Turiya (Transcendental State). This state is so supremely

free, it actually exists in all states, as the different states yet

is free from them as well. It is supreme and pure consciousness that

plays as anger, and joy, within its all pervasive self, plays as

individuals that think themselves as separate ego existent beings.

The experience of this state is so free from definition, is totally

free from concepts, that it really can't be talked about it with

defining words, no concepts can attempt to describe it. "