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Meditation
is a yes to life. Meditation is an inner yes - a quality of witnessing and
affirming everything that we already are. Sometimes we are in contact with
this inner yes and sometimes we behave automatically according to ideas,
desires and learned attitudes. Through meditation we can find new
solutions, which arises out of our basic yes to life.
Meditation means to learn to know one's self. Meditation means to study
our inner world.
Meditation simply means to learn to relate to ourselves. Meditation simply
means to learn to relate to ourselves.
Meditation is the golden key that can help us rediscover the contact with
our inner being, with our authentic self, with the inner source of love
and truth.
Meditation means to be aware of both inner and outer events. On the inner
plane it means to be aware of thoughts, emotions and physical sensations.
On the outer plane it means to be aware of outer events such as
situations, people, threes and the sky. It means to be aware of everything
that happens by itself. It is to live in trust and appreciation for what
life chooses to offer. It is a deep yes to everything that life chooses to
offer.
Life is an opportunity for meditation. Life is an opportunity to develop
the two aspects of meditation, the two wings of life: love and awareness.
The heart and essence of meditation is a watchful quality. It means to
watch with an attitude of acceptance, without interfering or trying to
change that, which is now.
Meditation is to be aware of the reality of the moment, without any wish
that the moment should be different than it is and without will to change
the truth of the moment. When we can be aware and watchful without
interfering, we can se all our life problems in a new and creative light.
The core of meditation is the inner witness, the inner witness that is
aware of the thoughts, the feelings, the physical sensations and the outer
events - and how the inner witness either can help or hinder authentic
expressions that comes from the inner being, from the inner roots.
When we meditate, we develop a trust. We develop our inner being, which
creates more space and freedom within ourselves. It allows us to rest in
ourselves and be relaxed with whatever happens.
What is standing between ourselves and being in meditation is our
identification with the problems of the thoughts, the passion of the
feelings and the sensations of the physical body. Meditation means to
realize that we are not the thoughts, we are not the feelings and we are
not the physical body. We are the watchful consciousness, the silent inner
witness, which is aware of the thoughts, the emotions and the physical
body.
Meditation is the way to develop our inner being. Meditation means to be
aware of the sensations of the physical body, the passions of the emotions
and the problems of the thoughts. Traditionally man has created a deep
split between the material and spiritual aspects of life. Man has created
a split between the inner and outer world, between body and soul and
between the male and female qualities.
Meditation is to get out of our own way
Meditation means to grow by awareness. In the light of awareness, the
false and artificial falls away by itself like dead leaves from a three in
the fall, while the alive, the real and the creative grows and develops.
Meditation does not try to teach us anything; it just gives us eyes to
see.
Meditation is like lighting a light in the depth of our inner being.
Meditation means to learn to live secure in the insecure.
We are standing in our own way. Meditation is to get out of our own way.
Basically there are three things that are standing between meditation and
ourselves: our identification with thoughts, attitudes and preconceived
concepts, our identification with feelings and our identification with
physical sensations.
Normally we live our lives in the memories of the past and in expectations
of the future, but we miss the here and now. Meditation brings us back to
the here and now, to this unique and precious moment, which is our only
reality.
Clinging to the past and worrying about the future is to miss the present
moment.
The essence of meditation consists of four qualities and aspects. These
four qualities are: 1. A watchful awareness 2. An accepting attitude 3. A
non-judgmental attitude and 4. Relaxation. The first quality and aspect of
meditation is a watchful awareness. Awareness is another word for
meditation. Awareness is meditation. Awareness can also be described as
presence or watchfulness. Awareness is the capacity to be aware of the
thoughts, the feelings, the sensations of the physical body and of outer
stimuli. Awareness is a 180-degree turn within from being identified with
the continuous inner stream of thoughts, feelings, ambitions, dreams,
desires, expectations and sensations to being aware and watchful of this
inner stream. It is like having our inner engine running, but having the
gear in neutral. Awareness is the capacity to be present to the inner
stream of thoughts, feelings and sensations without will to stop this
stream and without any wish that it should be different than it is. It is
to be a witness, an unidentified observer, to the inner stream of
thoughts, feelings and sensations.
Awareness is the cornerstone that can transform our quality of life.
Awareness can create the inner presence, which can transform our life into
a joyful dance, a song of meditation.
Through awareness, we can discover our true inner nature. It allows us to
discover a new dimension of being in contact with life. Awareness gives us
the freedom to choose between clinging to the past and living in the
unknown mystery of the moment.
Awareness is not about continuously trying to change ourselves or trying
to get better; awareness is about becoming conscious, of lighting the
light in our inner being. It is about learning to love and accept
ourselves as we are. Awareness is about discovering that which is already
perfect within ourselves.
Awareness is not about becoming something; awareness is about realizing
that we already are somebody. Awareness is about discovering the beautiful
being that we already are. In the light of awareness, everything real and
authentic grows and develops, and the false and artificial falls away by
itself like dead leaves from a three.
There is really nothing that can disturb our meditation. Everything can be
used as an object for meditation. Everything that happens on the inside
and everything that happens on the outside can be used as an object for
meditation. It does not really matter if it is a feeling of joy, sadness,
anger or aloneness that we find within ourselves. With awareness and
understanding, we can include and embrace everything that arises from our
consciousness in our meditation.
A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations is if we are
identified with the thoughts, the feelings and the sensations that arise
in our consciousness, or if we simply can be aware about and watch
whatever arises in our consciousness. Through this awareness and
understanding, we can use all situations in life as an opportunity to grow
in meditation.
The second quality and aspect of meditation is an accepting attitude.
Awareness includes an accepting attitude. An accepting attitude means to
learn to say yes to everything that arises in our consciousness. It means
to learn to say yes to both positive and negative experiences, to both
light and darkness and to both joy and sadness. It means to include and
embrace everything that we find within ourselves with presence, awareness
and understanding. An accepting attitude means to lovingly embrace
everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.
An accepting attitude means an attitude that the reality of the moment is
perfect exactly as we find it within ourselves. It means to not have a
will to change the reality of the moment or to have a wish that the moment
should be different than it is. It is to embrace the moment as we find it
within ourselves with a love and acceptance for how the moment is. It is a
love for the reality of the moment. This accepting attitude develops and
expands our inner being. It creates a greater space and a freedom within
ourselves. A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations is
if we say yes to, if we accept, what arises in our consciousness, or if we
say no to, if we deny, what arises in our consciousness.
The third quality and aspect of meditation is a
non-judgmental attitude. Awareness also includes a non-judgmental
attitude. Normally we judge and evaluate our behavior and ourselves,
rather than simply watch without judgment and evaluation. Since an early
age we have been taught to judge ourselves, so that now it is even easier
not to judge others than ourselves. A
non-judgmental attitude means to learn to love even the imperfect and
incomplete within ourselves. It means to include and embrace all that
which we do not accept in ourselves in the light of awareness. A
non-judgmental attitude means to say yes even to that which we say no to
in ourselves. A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations
is if we say no, if we judge that which arises in our consciousness, or if
we simply can be aware and watch without judging and evaluating.
The fourth quality and aspect of meditation is relaxation. The watchful
awareness, the accepting attitude and the non-judgmental attitude leads to
a deep relaxation together with a feeling that whatever is happening
within right now is perfect exactly as it is. It leads to a rest in
ourselves together with a feeling that we are already Ok as we are. This
relaxation creates a feeling that we can appreciate the beautiful being
that we already are. We can rest in that which is already perfect within
ourselves.
There are basically two different ways to relate to life. The first way is
to say no to life and the other way is to say yes to life. The first way
means to act out of our ego, from our separate I. The other way means to
act from our inner being, from our authentic self, from the inner source
of love and truth, from the silence and emptiness within us, from the
inner capacity to surrender to life.
The first way means to work against life and the other way means to
cooperate with life. The first way leads to fight, struggle and separation
from life and the other way leads to harmony, cooperation and wholeness.
Learning to say yes to life means to learn that we are a part of life,
that we are part of the Whole.
That which has a yes and support in Existence, grows and expands. That,
which has not a support in Existence, changes or disappears. It is like
the continuous dance and music of the waves of the ocean. It is the breath
of life. One way of describing meditation is
like a freedom from the I. The heart of meditation is a freedom from
desires, ambitions and expectations.
When we begin to meditate, we often have an idea that meditation should
bring positive results. But when our meditation integrates within
ourselves, it also deepens the trust that meditation includes both light
and darkness, both joy and sadness, both positive and negative
experiences, both success and failure and both life and death. Meditation
creates a deep acceptance for all climates and atmospheres of life.
The process in meditation is like planting a small seed and lovingly and
patiently water and take care of this little seed until it grows into a
strong and large three.
Meditation is the way to awaken and develop the inner being. Meditation is
about finding that which is already perfect within ourselves. The process
to develop the inner being can be described as the process of step by step
emptying a room from furniture until the room is completely empty and only
a silence, a space and an emptiness, remains.
What are the two aspects of meditation? How do love and aloneness relate
to each other? Just as the rhythm of ebb and flood of the sea, meditation
grows and develops between two aspects. The two aspects of meditation are
love and aloneness. Love and aloneness are the two wings of meditation. We
need to develop both these wings to learn to fly.
Meditation and love are really two sides of the same coin. The inner
aloneness and the outer love are two aspects of the same phenomena.
Meditation means to learn to be happy and satisfied in our own aloneness
and love is the fragrance that arises when we can rest in our aloneness.
The word aloneness consists of three syllables: al-one-ness. Aloneness
means to be one with ourselves. When we can rest in our aloneness as an
inner source of love, joy and satisfaction, this aloneness also becomes a
door to oneness with life.
What is aloneness? Aloneness is our inner nature. We are born alone and we
die alone. Aloneness is the quality of our inner being. Aloneness is to be
rooted and grounded in our inner being.
Meditation means to learn to love ourselves in our own aloneness. Take as
a meditation to sit under a three, in your room, in nature or wherever you
can be alone - and allow yourself to love yourself. Forget the world and
just love yourself. The inner journey basically means to learn to love
oneself. This meditation develops our inner being and real harmony happens
when we are in contact with our inner being, with our inner source of
love, with our true inner nature.
Meditation can be defined as the art of learning to be with ourselves in
our own aloneness. Meditation means to learn to rest in our own aloneness.
When we can rest in our own aloneness, aloneness becomes an inner source
of love, joy, acceptance, relaxation, silence, freedom and creativity.
Aloneness means to learn to give this unique and precious moment to
ourselves. To rest in our own aloneness is like sitting on a mountaintop
liberated from the noise and madness of the world.
It is a paradox of life that the more we accept our own aloneness, the
more we discover a belongingness with life.
Man has traditionally chosen to either deny the world or to deny the
spirit. The three life areas, meditation, relationships and creativity,
describe how the inner being of a person can be implemented in all three
of these areas. They describe how a persons actions can carry a certain
quality and fragrance, which we call awareness the presence of our soul.
Meditation is a balance and a development between aloneness, learning to
be with ourselves, and love, learning to be and relate with others. It is
a balance between inner emptiness and the outer world. It is a balance
between East and West, between spirituality and materialism, between body
and soulĀ and both aspects are needed to create wholeness.
Some people can easier be happy and satisfied in their own aloneness and
some people can easier love and relate with others. My experience from
working with people is that there are basically two types of people: those
that can be satisfied in their own aloneness and those that need love and
confirmation from others. Based on previous experience in life, it can be
easier for us to be with ourselves in aloneness and have a tendency to
reduce ourselves when we relate with other people. None of these ways are
better or worse than the other.
Life develops like the continuous rising movement of a pendulum between
opposite poles and tendencies. Lives develops between apparently
incompatible pairs of opposites for example positive and negative, sadness
and joy, light and darkness, day and night, male and female and life and
death. Meditation has traditionally been associated with something
introspective and away from the world. Meditation has been associated with
a static sitting, but just as electricity needs both a plus- and minus
pole for a spark to happen, meditation has also two poles to ignite the
spark of love. The two poles of meditation are the male and the female
pole. The female pole is the silent, receptive and watchful pole in
meditation. The female pole is the depth within ourselves independent of
if we are a man or a woman. The female pole is the door to our intuition,
to the inner true voice, to the inner source of love, truth and wisdom.
The female pole in meditation is our inner being, the capacity to
surrender to life.
The key to allow creative impulses to arise from the female pole in
meditation is trust. It means to develop a trust in allowing creative and
authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from our inner being. To
allow our creativity to arise from moment to moment out of meditation can
create insecurity, why it is necessary to develop a trust in allowing
these impulses to arise from our inner being, from the meditative quality
within, from inner emptiness.
The male pole in meditation is action. The male pole is the active and
creative aspect of meditation. It is the outgoing pole in meditation and
the female pole is the ingoing pole. The relationship between the male and
the female pole in meditation expresses itself like a balance between rest
and activity, between relating and aloneness and between love and freedom.
The female pole is silence in our inner center and the male pole is
activity in the periphery. It is to be in the world without allowing the
world to be in us.
To choose only the male pole in meditation without the balance of the
female pole results in ego, destructivity and separation from life. To
chose only the female pole in meditation without the balance of the male
pole results in passivity. These two poles in meditation are like the
balance between East and West, between spirituality and materialism,
between body and soul and both these poles are needed to create wholeness.
When we develop a balance between both the male and the female pole in
meditation, a new spark arises and we experience the boundless and
limitless source of love within ourselves.
What are the difference between the way of meditation and the path of
love? There are basically two different paths towards inner wholeness. The
first path is the way of meditation and the second path is the path of
love. The way of meditation is the path of meditation and aloneness. The
path of love is the path of joy, devotion and relating. The way of
meditation is the inner path and the path of love is the outer path. These
two paths can also be described as the male and the female path, although
they are not confined to a certain gender.
The goal for both these paths is the same, but the ways to reach the goal
are different. It is like one path travels along the north side of a
mountain and the other path travel along the south side of the same
mountain. These two paths take different routes up the mountain, but they
both meet on the top of the mountain. These two paths both end in a
balance between meditation and love, between aloneness and relating.
The way of meditation begins with aloneness and meditation and ends in
love. The path of love begins with love and relating and ends in
meditation and silence. This does not mean that the person who travels the
way of meditation is always alone or that the person who travels the path
of love is always relating, but there is a basic disposition in each
individual to travel one of these two paths.
Meditation has traditionally been associated with something serious, but
one sign that our meditation develops is that we develop a sense of humor.
Humor means to develop a distance to oneself and not taking oneself too
seriously. Humor means to not take life too seriously. Humor means to see
the absurdity in situations. Taking oneself too seriously is a sign of ego
and self-centeredness, while the ability to laugh at oneself is a sign of
awareness.
Meditation gives us an inner silence, a rest in ourselves, together with a
feeling of being at home in the world.
When the meditative presence and quality begins to overflow from our inner
being, from our essence and authentic self, from our inner life source, we
understand that meditation and life are not two separate things. We begin
to understand that meditation has more to do with music than logic, that
meditation has more to do with joy than seriousness. It is to understand
that life is born out of meditation, that life is a song of meditation.
When I sat and meditated beside a slow flowing river in India, I learnt
that if I really listened to the river, if I surrendered myself to the
river, I did not need any other teacher in meditation. The river could
teach me all the mysteries of life. In the same way can everything become
a door to the secrets of life, for example a man or a woman, a three, a
bird, a stone or the clear blue sky, if I know how to surrender to life.
It is such a deep joy, such a deep inner satisfaction, to know that I am
part of life, that I belong to life and that I am one with life.
Meditation is not just a static technique; meditation is the way to
discover our authentic being, our inner diamond. It is to find the joy,
silence and freedom of our inner being. It is to rediscover the original
life source, where we are already one with ourselves and with life. It is
to come home.
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