Guest guest Posted August 10, 2000 Report Share Posted August 10, 2000 My Dear Friends, For many years meditation was a difficult activity for me. The mind refused to be quiet and the harder I tried to quiet it the more chaotic it seemed to become. At that time I was also deeply involved in studying the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi...particularly the practice of Atma Vichara...Self Inquiry...the inner asking of the question:"who am I"? I had my own particular way of practicing Vichara: Usually I would ask the question "who am I?" but I would NEVER allow the mind to answer ,I would just hold the question in suspension like a ball that I would not allow to hit the ground. One day while doing this practice for not more than a few minutes the mind (along with the ego) suddenly surrendered...naturally... by itself. In place of the chaotic mind there was only a deep silence a natural calmness and there was no one practicing ...It had been so easy!...I sat down and began to do a session of meditation that lasted for hours ...and there was no meditator no one meditating and as such no one struggling to meditate. It seemed like a miracle! Later... I realized what had happened: The short session of Atma Vichara(self inquiry) had been a powerful "pre meditation " that had calmed the mind so that it was easy for it to slip easily into the state of meditation. The mind did not have to go from zero to 500mph in five seconds ...Infact the mind is incapable of doing that...incapable of turning itself off that quickly and that is why most Meditators have difficulty meditating . But over the years I discovered that self inquiry is only one part of one way of slowig down the mind and after a few more years of study Mindcalming was developed. Its purpose is to calm the mind so that meditation can happen and also to calm the mind during stressful moments in one's daily life. But Mindcalming when practiced on a regular basis, may also awaken one from the Ego dream of Individual consciousness..and one may soon become grounded As the Universal consciousness. There is no charge for Mindclming sessions ...it is a gift from the Eternal. Visit: Mindcalming.com and discover your Calm Silent Self. Mindcalming sessions are available from Links page Namaste B.W. Salzman (Bertram) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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