Most thinks meditation is concentration of mind. Meditation is not concentration of mind. There are uses of concentration, but that is not meditation. Concentration is necessary for your study, resea in scientific lab etc. But concentration will limit you to a certain area and you will out of 99% of your life. Then even sound of the birds will disturb you. Kids playing or barking dog in the street will irritate you.
In fact meditation is not concentration, it is a relaxation. More you become relaxed, more you will find yourself opened. You will start feeling flowing and suddenly whole existence start entering inside you. Now you are no more solid as stone. You are opened from all sides.
Relaxation means getting yourself into such situation in which you are not doing anything. Because whenever you are doing something, stress will continue. Meditation is a situation of not doing anything. You are just relaxed and you are experiencing the joy of being relaxed.
Meditation is not self- research. Self research means to think about self. But meditation has nothing to do with thinking. Meditation is to become conscious about self. Difference seems to be narrow, But there is a vast difference.
In fact meditation is not concentration, it is a relaxation. More you become relaxed, more you will find yourself opened. You will start feeling flowing and suddenly whole existence start entering inside you. Now you are no more solid as stone. You are opened from all sides.
Relaxation means getting yourself into such situation in which you are not doing anything. Because whenever you are doing something, stress will continue. Meditation is a situation of not doing anything. You are just relaxed and you are experiencing the joy of being relaxed.
Meditation is not self- research. Self research means to think about self. But meditation has nothing to do with thinking. Meditation is to become conscious about self. Difference seems to be narrow, But there is a vast difference.
Western psychology stresses on self research and eastern psychology stresses on self consciousness. In self research, when you get angry, you start thinking about your anger. What is the reason of anger? Or you started deciding weather anger is good or bad. You start to define that you are angry because of situation. But your complete consciousness is focussed on your anger and not yourself.
Eastern psychology says to become conscious. Don't try to research on your anger. Just watch it, and watch with full of consciousness. Actually if you start thinking, it will disturb you against watching your anger. Don't thimk at all, just be in a situatuon of thoughtlessness and just watch it.
Beauty of this is when you are just able to watch your anger, the anger will vanish. So whenever you are angry, just watch it, then this watching will start to become more and more deeper.
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