Benifits of Meditation

In this section, some benifts of meditations are discussed.

1) Deep silence:

Meditation takes you in deep silence. And this silence brings you truth, love and thousand of wishes. This silence is a music that you have never heard before. It is a smell that was never known to you and it is a light that can be seen only through your internal eye. In this internal world of silence, there isn't any noise. No words can reach there, but you can reach there. It is your peace zone, the eternal silence.

2) Development of sensitivity:

Meditation gives you sensitivity. And this sensitivity creates your new friends. You become friendliness with trees, birds, animals, hill, river and ocean. More your friendliness increases, more your life will become rich.

3) Love: The smell of meditation:

If you meditate, then sooner or later, love will be generated inside you. Similarly, love will make you meditative, if your love is in right direction. So first meditate, because meditation gives birth to love. Meditation is a flower, let it gloom. And from that flower, you will feel the smell of love coming from it

4) Contious joy without reason:

If you are enjoying and that enjoy has reason, then your enjoy won't last longer. For example, if you pass the exam, you enjoy and that has reason. Next time when you fail, you lost your joy.

But When you meditate, that brings joy which does not have reason. And nobody can destroy your joy. No matter what happens, this joy will always remain with you.

5) Talent: The ability to reply:

Meditation makes you free from prison. It frees you from all the prisons made by soceity, politician and religious leader. When you are free, you will know your talent that was hidden because of society. You will become a talented person. And that talent will help you not to return to same prison again.

6) Knowing your actual form:

Meditation makes you consciousness about your actual form. It is the form that you were, when you were born. Meditation makes you know who actually you are.

Bipassana Meditation

Bipassana meditation is that meditation technique which have benifit many people than any other meditation. This meditation is so simple that even a small child can do it. Bipassana can be done by three methods

First method:

To become conscious about own body, mind and heart. When you walk, then walk with conscious. When you wave your hand, then wave with conscious, knowing that you are waving your hand. If you wave without consciousness, then you are doing with just like a machine.

Second method:

To become conscious about breath. When you inhale, your stomach expand and when you exhale, your stomach contract. So be conscious, when your stomach contract and expand.

Third method:

To become conscious as soon as your breath enters your nasal cavity. Experience the touch of breath at your nasal cavity during both inhaling and exhaling.

Direction for Bipassana Meditation:

Sitting:

Find the place where you could sit with relax for 40-60 minutes. Head and back bone must be straight, eye must be closed and breathing must be simple. Be stationary as much as possible, unless it is very much necessary to change your position.

While sitting, observe the contraction and expansion of stomach while breathing. This is not technique of concentration. So if any thing disturbs, or any other thought arises, stop the observation and give attention to that disturbance or thought unless it is possible ot return to your observation.

The process of observing is important. What you are observing is not important. So whatever arises, don't get attached with it. Questions and problems can be observed as miracles which could be enjoyed.

Walking:

Feel the touch of feet on earth. You can move in a circle or move to and fro for certain distance. Eye must be lowered so that you could see only certain distance ahead. While walking, your whole attention must be at your contact of your feet with earth. If any other thoughts arise, remove your attention from your feet and give attention to that thoughts. Then again return to your feet. You can walk up to 20 and 30 minutes.

Laughing Buddha of Japan

There was a laughing Buddha in Japan. His name was Hotei. His whole message was just to laugh. He used to roam from one palce to another and from one market to another. He used to stand at the middle of the market and used to laugh - this was his speech or discourse.

His laugh was very hypnotic. It was a real laugh which used to touch and vibrate whole stomach. He used to lay down on the ground while laughing. People gathered around also used to start to laugh. Then laugh used to spread and there used to be waves of storm of laughter. Whole village used to be filled with laughter.

People used to watch his way, that when Hotei would arrive their village, because he used to come with extra ordinary joy and pray. He never spoke even a word. Whenever someone asked him about enlightenment, then he used to laugh. When someone asked him about the truth, then he used to laugh. To laugh was only his one message.

Laughter is a Meditation

You have laughed many times. But have you observed what really happen within you when you laugh? Your process of thoughts stop. When you are laughing you cannot think.. Thinking and laughing process cannot go together. This thoughtless situation during laughter can be used as a beautiful tool for meditation.

Direction for laughter meditation:
. Every morning when you wake up, before opening your eyes, stretch your body like a cat.
. After 3 or 4 minutes, just closing your eyes, start to laugh. Continue the process of laughing for 4 or 5 minutes.
. For initial period, this should be done with efforts. But later the sound of lauhter produced by your effort will start to generate your original and natural lauhter.
. Lost yourself in a laugh.
. It may take many days for this event to be happened. But sooner, this process will be simple and your whole day will become different.

Laugh and learn

One man fell down from ladder and his leg was broken. He had his leg plastered and he was told not to move up and down through ladder for 3 or 4 months. After 3 or 4 months, he went to doctor and asked, " Now can I move up and down through through ladder?"
Doctor said, "Of course! You can."
Man said, "Thank you doctor. How much it have been difficult for me moving up and down through pipes for four months."
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Once a person came to stay in a village. People used to call him a doctor. One day, one old man came to him to know exacrly what type of doctor he was. So he asked, "Which doctor are you?"
The man replied, "I am doctor of philosophy."
The old man said, "I have never saw patient with such desease and I have never listened about it."
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A man was coming out from his house when his wife shouted, "Do you forget what day is today?"
The man knew well that today was their 25th marriage anniversary. So he replied, "I remember very well, dear."
Wife shouted, "Then how are we celebrating this day?"
"I don't know." The man scratched his head for while and said, "On this special occasions, why don't we be silent for 2 minutes?"

Born Again Meditation

Every body says childhood is a golden life. Everybody want to return to the childhood. Then who is stopping you. Receive your childhood again. This meditaion will give a chance to receive a childhood again.
You can perform this meditation for eight days. In these days toy have to throw your personality. You have to remove your mask. This is difficult. Your personality is your prison. Without removing it, you will not know your actual form. Remove it. It is painful. But only after that you will re-born. Because there isn’t any birth without pain. So if you really want to born again, then you have to take the risk.
The instructions from Osho for this meditation are as follow:

Step I:
Behave like child for first one hour. Enter inside your childhood. Whatever you want, do it. Dance, sing, shout, jump or cry- whatever and however you like. Do not touch each other if you are doing this meditation in group. Do not harm other.

Step II:
Be silent for second one hour. You will become more fresh and more simple and meditation will become simple for you.

For seven days, two hours each day:
Decide that you will be as innocent as when you were born, just like a small baby, who doesn’t know any thing or explain anything. If you are able to become small child, then many things are possible. Those seems to be impossible will also become possible.

Centralization Meditation

This is another meditation technique of Bigyan Bhairav Tantra. The process says:

Whenever feeling arises for or against any person, do not blame that person, but be centralized.

The main summary of this meditation is that whenever you feel love or hate or any feelings for or against any person, then you are the source of this feelings.

In ordinary case, when you love someone, you think he/she is the source of your love. You project your love to that person. But that is not true. Actually, you are the source of that love.

So whenever such feelings come, be always centralized. Always remember that you are the source. Instead of giving attention to your feelings, give attention to the source. When feeling of hate arises, instead of going after your hate, try to go to that point from where hate is arising. Do not search person who is subject of your hate. Go inside and towards your centre. Make your love or whatever feelings as tools for a journey towards source. Go to source, that is your centre.

It is easier to go toward source at that time when you are dynamically experiencing such feeling. After going inside, you will reach one calm point. Then completely different dimension or completely different world will start to open in front of you.

No Mind Meditation

Applying this technique for first seven days is enough to experience its effect. Instructions for this meditation are as follow:

Step I (40 minutes):
You may sit down or stand up and close your eye. Start to spell the irrelevant words. You can make sound anyway you like. But you should not use those words which you know. Inside you, whatever is needed to be expressed, allow to express it. Take out everything from inside. Be completely mad, but with consciousness.
Allow your body whatever it wants- cry, shout, jump, run etc. But do not rest.

Step II:Witnessing(40 minutes):
Sit down with complete silent and with relax. Collect your energy and allow your thoughts to go far and far away. Allow yourself to be in silence and peace at your centre. You can sit down on floor or chair, but your head and back bone must be straight, body is relaxed, eye is closed and breathing is simple.
Be conscious and be completely at present moment. Whatever happen, just witness it. Thoughts will try to go either in future or in past. You just try to watch it from a little distance- do not make decision or do not be trapped in thoughts. Just be stationary at present moment witnessing. Witnessing is the process of meditaton.

Step III: Let Go(40 minutes):
After witnessing, allow your body to fall on the floor without any effort or control. Continue witnessing while lying down. Be conscious that you are neither body normind, you are something different from both of them. As you start to go deeper and deeper, slowly you will reach at your centre.