all about meditation....

"You may hear and hear, but you will never understand; you may look and look, but you will never see. For this people's mind has become gross; their ears are dulled, and their eyes are closed. Otherwise, their eyes might see, their ears hear, and their mind understand. . ."

What is meditation? One might give any number of definitions, but here is a good one to start with: Meditation is a process of making the mind subtle. Meditation on a regular basis will help bring about a more relaxed state of mind and body. For many people, trying to cope with the stress and strain of everyday life can be stressful in itself.

This may create more problems, for example having trouble sleeping, which over a period of time would begin to create even more problems. There are of course many people who wish to meditate to help them to be more in tune with their Spirituality.

Whatever your reason is for seeking a form of meditation to help you, it will come down to self, whether it be Physical or Spiritual.

Many lay people have this concept that to sit and meditate is to completely empty the mind of all thought which upon trying they find extremely difficult because to think of nothing is to think of something.

Spending some time each day allowing this process to happen, gradually cultures the mind to be subtler and subtler, and at the same time establishes the mind in its innermost being. This results in a mind/heart that is not only subtle, but at once clear, stable, supple, expansive, open, and whole. Through this process of meditation, we begin to live more and more of the wholeness of our own life, and this profoundly deepens our spiritual connection with life.

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When we approach meditation with childlike, innocent faith, however, all such effort and frustration become a thing of the past. Whereas previously this basic tendency of the mind to seek greater happiness frustrated our efforts to meditate, it now becomes our best friend and gives us a free ride to bliss, ananda. Ignorance makes an enemy of nature; childlike innocence and faith befriends nature. The more we try, the more the mind seems like an unruly monkey. The less we try, the more the mind becomes instead like a honey bee, seeking, and finding blissful nectar.

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