MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (2)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (2)

Swami Ashokananda

 

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To speak of meditation properly so called - that is to say, sitting in a certain

quiet posture, shutting off the outside world from invading the senses and the

mind,

and dwelling upon the Lord - we know that such meditation is impossible without

concentration of the mind. Yet concentration is not easy to attain. Although we

have been trained from early childhood to pay attention to what we do,

this paying attention, which is nothing but the act of concentration, has not

been well learnt by us. We find that our mind continually moves away from the

thing or things to which we want to direct it. And when the objects to which

the mind has to be directed are fine and subtle in character, as spiritual

truths

or realities are, such concentration becomes exceedingly difficult. But if we do

not have concentration, even if we sit in the posture of meditation with closed

eyes in a quiet place, apparently not paying attention to anything in the

outside,

our mind will be running races in many different directions. I admit that even

such an attempt at meditation is of some benefit, but it will not take us very

far.

 

(to be continued)