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Subject: MEDITATION - BEING AND BECOMING


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Penny
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Date Posted: Wed, Dec 10 2003, 17:45:33
 Clearly there are many methods and approaches to meditation, but these are, after all, methods and approaches. Meditation is the objective. What is it, how can we discover or realize it, and how do we recognize it when we have achieved it?

It would be foolish to try to define meditation - it is beyond definition and words will surely fail us. It can be realized and recognized only in our immediate awareness of its reality. All methods and approaches which can be used in the practice of meditation are valid only in so far as they bring us to this immediate awareness, only in so far as they can lead us to the threshold of meditation - and the door is always open.

To open up the field of our enquiry it may be useful to consider the following incident which occurred to a young lady, well practiced in meditation. She related that she was cleaning her house, like Martha in the gospels busily engaged in many things, pre-occupied with a busy schedule. She entered the room in which she was sleeping, and was suddenly brought to her senses. She recalled the baby was wide awake and the room was filled with a peaceful, blissful and silent presence. This made a startling contrast to her own state, which she saw to be an unnecessarily noisy turmoil. She quickly left the room to "compose" herself. The baby, she was convinced, was in meditation.

Every detail of this lady's observation carried the authenticity of clear and direct perception and we can draw from it many pointers to our basic questions concerning meditation.
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Re: MEDITATION IS WHAT YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU DOPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 17:50:57
Re: MEDITATION IS FOR EVERYONEPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 18:04:43
Re: MEDITATION IS BEYOND RELIGIOUS FORMPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 18:24:18
Re: MEDITATION REFLECTSPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 18:34:17
Re: MEDITATION - REFLECTS ON BEING AND BECOMINGPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 18:43:07
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIESPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 19:05:52
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - SOUND AND SILENCEPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 19:28:02
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - STILLNESS AND MOVEMENTPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 20:17:34
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - RETURNING TO STILLNESSPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 20:46:09
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - CLEAR LIGHT AND THE SPECTRUMPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 20:57:22
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - THE SILVER SCREEN AND THE MOVIESPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 21:10:07
Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - ETERNITY AND PASSING TIMEPennyWed, Dec 10 2003, 21:31:07
Re: MEDITATION - A FRAMEWORK FOR MDITATIVE AWARENESSPennyFri, Dec 12 2003, 17:38:25
Re: MEDITATION THROUGH SPEECHPennyFri, Dec 12 2003, 18:01:25
Re: MEDITATION: GOOD PERSON - GOOD SOCIETYPennyFri, Dec 12 2003, 18:05:17
Re: MEDITATION THROUGH BREATHPennyFri, Dec 12 2003, 18:40:10
Re: MEDITATION THROUGH SIGHTPennyMon, Dec 15 2003, 16:43:46
Re:THE NEED FOR MEDITATIONPennyMon, Dec 15 2003, 21:44:25
Re: MEDITATION - A SYSTEMATIC PRACTICEPennyWed, Dec 17 2003, 17:56:19
Re: MEDITATION - A SYSTEMATIC PRACTICE - RECOMMENDED READINGPennyWed, Dec 17 2003, 18:39:52
Re: MEDITATION - PATANJALIS EIGHTFOLD ELEMENTSPennyWed, Dec 17 2003, 19:01:51
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