Tips on Meditation

Meditation

Witness when attached to the mind is identified with the mind. Unless the mind is stilled one will not be in touch with one’s true being. Meditation help creates the stillness (like a lake) and allows for a cessation of the movements (thoughts, emotions) within the mind. The mind is difficult to control, but it can be controlled with practice. Almost all forms of meditation originate from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Meditation is a state of no-mind. Even when one is asleep, the mind is engaged. When thinking has ceased, there is 'no traffic' you are utterly silent, and truth is known. You cannot search for meditation, and certainly not through the mind. In the gap, between the inhale and exhale: in that silence, you will experience that fleeting moment, and the desire to make this a continuous journey - the sanyasis way of being. When mediation becomes your natural state. 

Here are a few tips.

1.  Through regular practice of meditation daily the value will be seen,

2.  also a need for this to be done at the right time (before dawn 4 am or dusk, 7 pm, or midnight).

3. Also, best to have a meditation mat, and a reserved place.

4. Now don’t struggle with your emergent thoughts and allow anxiety: simply observe peacefully. Negative thoughts may also come that may disturb us or we are attracted to flattering thoughts. Avoid both.

5. A meditator must be careful about the company he keeps. 

6. Practice simplicity, less you possess, less you get distracted. Our minds are tied to our possession – “that is mine”.

7.  Go into meditation with the feeling of eternity. No end.

8.  The heart must thirst for truth, a yearning, one pointed eagerness.

9. When not in meditation, anything we do which is moral and legal make it as an offering to the larger universality.

10.Hear enlightened people who are blessed. It awakens something in us.