meditation the first and last freedom
MEDITATION THE FIRST AND LAST FREEDOM
INTRODUCTION: Meditation is adventure, the greatest adventure the human mind can undertake. Meditation is just to be not doing anything- no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are and it is a sheer delight. It comes from nowhere, or it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused, because existence is made of the stuff called joy.
WHAT IS MEDITATION? When you are not doing anything at all- bodily and mentally, on no level- when activities have ceased and you simply are, just being, that’s what meditation is. You cannot do it, you cannot practice it: you have to only understand it. Thinking is also doing, concentration is also doing, and contemplation is also doing. Even for a single moment you are not doing anything and you are just at your center, utterly relaxed –that is meditation. And once you have got the knack of it, you can remain in the state as long as you want; finally you can remain in the state for 24 hours a day. Watching is meditation. You can watch the trees, you can watch the clouds, and you can watch children playing around, what you watch is not the point; the object is not the point. The quality of observation, the quality of being aware and alert- that’s what meditation is.
THE FLOWERING OF MEDITATON: Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced silence is in the name of noiselessness. But silence is totally a different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it’s not empty. Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance has its own light. And it is utterly silent, immensely silent, and eternally silent. There has never been any noise, and there will never be
INTRODUCTION: Meditation is adventure, the greatest adventure the human mind can undertake. Meditation is just to be not doing anything- no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are and it is a sheer delight. It comes from nowhere, or it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused, because existence is made of the stuff called joy.
WHAT IS MEDITATION? When you are not doing anything at all- bodily and mentally, on no level- when activities have ceased and you simply are, just being, that’s what meditation is. You cannot do it, you cannot practice it: you have to only understand it. Thinking is also doing, concentration is also doing, and contemplation is also doing. Even for a single moment you are not doing anything and you are just at your center, utterly relaxed –that is meditation. And once you have got the knack of it, you can remain in the state as long as you want; finally you can remain in the state for 24 hours a day. Watching is meditation. You can watch the trees, you can watch the clouds, and you can watch children playing around, what you watch is not the point; the object is not the point. The quality of observation, the quality of being aware and alert- that’s what meditation is.
THE FLOWERING OF MEDITATON: Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced silence is in the name of noiselessness. But silence is totally a different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it’s not empty. Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance has its own light. And it is utterly silent, immensely silent, and eternally silent. There has never been any noise, and there will never be