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Similarly, when the mind examines itself, it starts to disappear in its own vast existence.
It emerges. It manifests. It disappears.
Thoughts that you do not let go leave an imprint on your mind. That imprint is the residue. Meditation is the process of washing away that residue. It is the cleaning of your slate and keeping it that way. When we fail to abandon our thoughts, they assume different forms. They can become desires, expectations or emotions.
Intrinsically, thoughts are all the same – identical. It is what you do with the thought that matters than the actual thought itself.
Good meditation teaches you how to drop your thought. The moment you drop your thought, desire vanishes in thin air like a dewdrop upon sunrise. With practice you learn to take your mind off each time a desire arises, especially undesirable ones, the ones that become temptations have the potential to completely throw you off the course. As you progress, you actually start to see you desires as mere thoughts with no intrinsic value.
If the two partners in a relationship could lower their expectations they have from each other, love in such a relationship will only flourish.
When we are unable to let go of our thoughts, some of them become emotions, and then we attach emotions to our desires and expectations. This is where a thought is transformed into a potent force nudging us to take action.
They influence the nature of and intention behind our actions.
great, persistent, prolonged, intelligent, alert, intense and correct practice.
“The one who knows the reality of one thing knows the reality of everything.”
The golden rule of meditation is: you cannot not think about something by thinking about it.
No Recollection: Don't Pursue Thoughts of the Past
No Calculation: Don't Pursue Thoughts of the Present
No Imagination: Don't Imagine what May Happen in the Future
If you remember that thoughts are empty in their own right,
No Examination: Don't Analyze Your Thoughts
No Construction: Don't Try to Create an Experience
One of the most common mistake meditators make is to crave for the same experience again. This deviates you from the path. If you find yourself longing for a certain experience or waiting for it, gently draw your attention to the present moment. Remind yourself that any desire for an experience is no more than a thought. And thought must be dropped at all costs.
No Digression: Don't Wander; Simply Stay in the Present Moment
The yogi should sit erect with head torso and neck in a straight line. He should build his concentration and settle his gaze at the tip of his nose.
But whenever you do sit down to meditate, it could be just for fifteen minutes, make it a point to sit like a rock, like dead wood.
The most difficult stretch to overcome is 45 minutes to 90 minutes. This may take another year.
the day you master four hours of stillness, you will be no less than a living Buddha, a siddha in flesh and bones. Anyone who can sit still for that long with full awareness becomes a fountain of super-knowledge.
Even if you don’t meditate but just learn to sit still, you will gain much from it.
Joining of the hands and feet is important to allow a complete circulation and flow of energy within you.
Joined Hands
Resting your right hand on top keeps your body cooler, affects your left brain and boosts your masculine energy.
There is a subtle difference in not feeling angry versus not expressing it. If you get angry but don’t express it, such suppression causes emotional damage.
concentrative meditation requires complete mastery of your posture. This is mostly because success in this form of meditation demands complete stillness of the body.
Remember that thoughts are merely thoughts, devoid of any essence. Don’t analyze, pursue, accept, process or examine any thought whatsoever.
Thoughtlessness of the mind with awareness is a feeling like no other.
The other form of meditation on the formless is called expansive meditation.
The path I have found is the path of living each hour of the day in awareness, mind and body always dwelling in the present moment.
You start observing your thoughts and they begin to disappear like one sound of a clap disperses all birds on the tree. Once you start watching your thoughts, they all evaporate, leaving you calm and blissful.
Forgiveness doesn’t even need discipline but only a big heart, big enough to absorb their mistakes.
I once read a quote that said, “Some people are so brutally honest that it almost seems they enjoy more being brutal than being truthful.”
Let us say you decide to do trataka for a period of seven minutes. For those seven minutes, you must be still like a rock restricting your eye movements as well.
Ask yourself the one most important question to bring yourself back into the present moment, “What am I doing right now?”
chances are that the other person is not actually listening to your point of view anyway. Most people are not really listening but simply waiting for the speaker to finish his point so they can begin theirs.
The meditator in this state experiences his individual self (a sense of ego) merging into the cosmic self. You begin to experience that you are an exact replica of the macrocosm, and that you are just about as infinite and eternal as the universe.
An adept at this stage develops altruistic consciousness remaining unaffected by his or her desires.
Similarly, if I were to sum up the art of meditation in one sentence, it would be, “Exert when relaxed and relax when exerted.
The Vedas call it advaita. Fear only arises in duality, in a sense of separation, that somehow you may lose the other one or that they may harm you. But who can harm you when there’s only you around?
