Meditation is the dialysis for the inner.
Meditation is the process of De-poisoning the mind and then creating a distance from it.
It is the remedy for all mental garbage that is choking up human mind.
It the process of gradual liberation from anger, hatred, frustration, guilt, fear ....bla bla bla
And finally, the riddance from mother of all these mental diseases... "THE EGO" and " the dualities....the confusions....the mental flux...."
Meditation is the process which may bring "FINAL clarity....absolute clarity without any ifs and buts, only if one is willing to experience the "art of dying"....(not physical death but "the ego"......)
Now, when i say "to begin with"...it means , for a normal person or for the beginner...................
For a person who is new to meditation it is just a way to relax, to unwind , to de-stress.......but that is just the beginning
Somehow 99.99% of the people who meditate are stuck only at the beginning.They meditate for years and years but still remain at the same level......just repeating the "a...b....c...........".......just repeating the basic techniques..........
For example.........you look at people who have been meditating for years....they are still into repetition of same as to what they started out with years ago.
You go to meditation camps and u will find camp leaders and aged seekers still stuck with kundalini , zibberish etc....
These techniques are just the basics.......they will de-stress you......these techniques will help you relax......but what after that.You will again get tensed, choked up once u come to normal life and again you will go to some meditation camp and do the same things and again feel light.....and then again, once out of the meditation center you will fall into the same trap of getting messed up. Same set of emotional parameters and dimensions will engulf you again and you will feel tensed and down.So it becomes a circular pattern of tension and relaxation.........
Am i saying "don't do it".....
No, i am saying that it is just the beginning and a beginning has to be made....but don't get stuck with the basics....
The real meditation begins where these techniques end...where the silence starts...And silence has no techniques.....
The real meditation will not only remove the stress but it will take you to the level where you will never be stressed or tensed or dejected again.
The real meditation will free you from "the meditation techniques" itself
It will remove the very roots from where these diseases spread.
The 75% part of the meditation techniques like kundalini ,chakras,tratak and all helps in reducing the symptoms rather than the cause itself....it is just like cutting the leaves......
The leaves of anger, pain, jealousy etc ect will fall down for some time but as soon as u r back to your normal daily life, they will grow again.
That is why u will find people all over who have not changed in the real sense despite meditating for decades.....they have just been cutting the leaves....they never had the guts to reach the very roots and cut the problem from there.The real surgery begins with "silence"........Osho said many times "be silent and know"......that is the key.
WHY MEDITATION TECHNIQUES.........
For humans its not so easy to be quiet...forget about being silent....and hence masters device these techniques as a way to reach the silence a bit easily and quickly.
So meditation techniques are required to reach a stage of being quiet and then being silent ........that's it.
And once you are settled in silence, the real meditation begins....the game changes.....the meditation starts from silence.............................
ABOUT THE RIGHT WAY .............
Well as a seeker you have to be aware as to where u are getting stuck.....
If you are just stuck in the repetition of the physical jugglery involved in any meditation technique OR JUST GETTING STUCK IN WORDS AND DISCOURSES, begin to question your understanding.Begin to question as to what you are doing and if it is actually leading you anywhere except temporary relaxation..........
It is so strange that people who know...who have known ...who have experienced the truth, keep on telling that these words are useless, that these techniques are just a beginning....that they won't take you far....that the words are basically of mind...that don't repeat these words....the words which are not your experience.....but still almost everybody is doing the same.They go on repeating the words of osho or other masters without any break,such is their obsession , their mind cannot rest without it .....it almost becomes a source of time pass and entertainment.The mind keeps lurking for them...more and more......and one gets stuck in those words thinking that they know.
Knowing those words and having information about those words are two different things. Information doesn't means transformation.I have seen people who listen to discourses at night if they are not able to sleep.........they have just fallen in love with a trap despite warning from the master.....
So don't repeat words like love, silence and this and that till the point you are liberated...It trivializes the whole affair of meditation.....
People who got liberated spoke of these words only after they had experienced truth...after they had become truth....if u speak before that, they won't carry any weight...it will unnecessarily add to your ego and others will clearly feel and see the shallowness of it, the foolishness of it...so why to fool yourself when master himself warned you of that....
Once you know something , once you understand something...you will know it yourself and others will feel it too when u speak...the words will carry some weight and energy which will touch peoples hearts......
BEWARE THAT YOU DON'T FALL IN THAT TRAP.
THE FIRST LESSON I LEARNT FROM OSHO WAS WHEN HE SAID "DONT EVER SAY ANYTHING WHICH IS NOT YOUR EXPERIENCE OR UNDERSTANDING..........BEWARE OF REPEATING MY WORDS".........
So that is the first thing to remember as a seeker.......
Secondly,
keep on doing techniques till you get tired but don't get attached to any experiences that u go through......don't hold them dear to your heart though it's going to be very tempting.......for all experiences are of the body and you are not the body...
Thirdly,
Gradually learn to meditate alone.....at times with people and at times alone.Down the line that is going to be very important.Meditating in group is very easy and convenient...but that's not enough.Ultimately you are searching to face yourself and if you don't develop the guts to meditate alone.......you won't reach what you are unknowingly looking for.It's very easy to be in a group and dance and shout and laugh and do humming......and then be in silence.......but that's not enough.So don't chain yourself to groups if possible.
And lastly,
If you do these techniques honestly and with totality, a time will come when u will be able to take direct jump to silence.....at that point of time....try to find somebody who can handle the silence.
Once you have a taste of settling in silence ...you will not be able to handle it....it's very delicate,very soft,very fragile...it's a situation where one is empty of all the garbage but the new,the essential,the valuable has still not come......it's just on the verge of flowing in......you will need the right person to take you through it ...to help you settle in it and then to help you transcend it......and its almost impossible to find a person who can do that ......SO BE AWARE OF THIS AS WELL....
All the best......
Prem Kamal
nicely said Kamal..
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