Techniques for Meditation

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What do people expect from meditation ?

 

Meditation is then experienced as a relief of all this mental and

emotional pressure. People expect it to create some calm within and

if properly done it really does successfully relief you of any

stress, emotional and mental.

 

What is the purpose of meditation in spiritual traditions ?

 

The purpose of meditation in all spiritual traditions is to:

 

empty your mind to become ready for pure consciousness

empty your emotions to become aware of your surrounding's emotions

relief all your stress and emotional and / or mental pressure

create peace of mind and harmony within yourself

replace your emotional or mental turmoil by something positively and

actively sacred and Divine

 

How can we achieve this goal?

 

First of all there definitely is a need to immediately stop any

action causing such turmoil in your emotions, mind and actions. This

is done by conducting a peaceful life in harmony with the Divine. To

start this, you need to learn again to listen to his Divine and

loving guidance. It is all the disharmony in your thoughts, emotions,

words and actions that caused the turmoil. All the Karma you ever

created will collect and be with you, until you start to change your

style of life. Serious study of all spiritual laws and practicing and

applying them in every days situation of your job, business, family,

friends, recreation, politics, and any other situation of your life

will be the first step toward creating peace within.

 

It makes little sense to meditate in order to create peace, as long

as you still persist in creating turmoil before and after meditation

in your daily life. So be ready to change your life, your inner and

outer behavior while at the same time start to practice daily

meditation and applying or living the spiritual laws in every days

situations.

 

Some spiritual traditions practice meditation by concentrating on

emptiness. This is quite difficult, because there is no emptiness in

the entire creation. So these person applying successfully this

method often are hanging between two centers of consciousness, i.e.

between physical and astral body, being neither in physical nor in

astral body. Or between astral and causal body, again being neither

in astral nor in causal body. You may somehow compare it to the gear

of a car. The " normal " procedure is to move from one center up to the

next higher until you are one with God-consciousness. Like shifting

in a automobile from 1st gear to 2nd and 3rd up to the highest one

when accelerating. Like in a automobile before shifting to the next

higher gear, a driver usually accelerates to a certain speed before

shifting to the next gear. A similar principle works in meditation.

Before you can move from one center of consciousness to the next

higher one, you may definitely need to increase the vibration of your

present consciousness and all its pertaining parts in your spiritual

body and its aura. This point is hard if ever to be accomplished when

concentrating on emptiness, besides the fact that there is no

emptiness at all, so you may waste some time to look for something in-

existing. How can you move from one point to another when there is no

orientation, no driving force that keeps you moving in a constant

direction with all your spiritual practice.

 

Others are meditating by using a large variety of Mantrams, or by

using the picture of a Guru or deity to concentrate on. Some Mantrams

are associated with deities, others with " metaphysical gifts " . When

you concentrate on Mantrams, deities or Gurus, it may lead to the

result of you becoming one with the object of your concentration.

Contemplation as a result of extended concentration is leading to

Samyama - becoming one with the object of concentration. If this is

what you are practicing, you may realize one day that you have

achieved your goal, being in beautiful Worlds and universes - far

away from God. That is the reason why in many Holy scriptures there

is a warning - you should never have other deities beside me.

Striving for unity with any deity may lead to this achievement, but

this can and may lead to being far away from the source of all

sources for a long time before you may realize how far you are from

your intended goal.

 

to be continued...