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Which Meditation is Best for You? By William Bodri,
The question actually should be: You can find a few meditation methods on our home
page just for starters. What works for one person will not work for another.
Therefore, you usually have to try several different methods to see which
one suits you best. So meditate twice a day with one you like and one you
hate, and try to do at least 45 minutes each time, and eventually you'll
start getting all the results you read about and dream about. Some people stare at TV to drum out thoughts,
otherwise relax and destress on rocking chairs (my mom used to do that),
while others need the loud noise of a disco to drown out the busy mind
through another meaningless (but loud) activity. Most people who turned to all sorts of 'negative
activities' (less than life affirming) did so because they weren't aware
of meditation as a viable option, and didn't have a good teacher to teach
it. Through the practice of meditation, anyone can
eventually learn how to cultivate a mental realm of blissful clarity,
peace, calm and well-being whose results will even extend to the body. That freedom of detachment from thoughts -- and
the refusal to bolster them with energy -- in time causes them to lose
strength and pass away. This lowering of the 'volume control' for the internal dialogue of the head will gradually result in a state of mental peace, calm, stillness, quiet or 'emptiness' that is the purpose of meditation. It's a blissful state of '10,000 miles of clear
skies' that does not impel one to follow thoughts, emotions, impulses or
cravings of any type except those one selects to act upon. Meditation produces mental and physical states that
can replace the sought-after states that alcoholics and drug users pursue,
but of course it takes training and practice to access those states. For now, however, let's keep staying away from those
terms to make the topic more approachable. The meditation method that is 'best' for an
individual is simply the one that works best in helping you realize the
same end goal. It works best because the underlying principles of that
practice suit you best for helping you calm your mind. It gives up and abandons thoughts all together to
produce a quiet realm of mental emptiness. In these methods, the wandering thought mind is eventually silenced through the continuous listening but after that mental silence appears, the awareness of that empty silence remains. With meditation you learn not only how to produce
that silence but how to stay in that state of peaceful open awareness. I've heard of people paying up to $1,000 and
more just to learn a mantra and while you can say that's a form of
'expedient means' (skillful means) to help the payer actually practice it
(compliance always rises when people have to pay), I think that's a little
exorbitant. The idea is to reach a peaceful state where breath
and consciousness (thoughts) both calm and become one. In this way,
breathing and consciousness can unify and produce a state of metal peace,
emptiness and clarity. In time, the continued watching without following the
thoughts and giving them energy will cause them to die down. Eventually a
silent mental gap between thoughts will be noticed that, with further
cultivation, can expand and ultimately burst to reveal the true empty
nature of the mind. Meditators who succeed with this method also
produce a true mental realm of peace and quiet. By abandoning everything that isn't the mind, Zen practitioners find that thoughts are not the mind but fleeting images that appear in the the true empty mind for just an instant, and then pass away. Because they are not real, one learns to abandon them
and all states of consciousness to arrive at the real nature of the mind
and reality. Secondly, they rely on different principles to help you access mental peace because everyone has a different avenue of access that works best. The big secret is that there are a variety of ways to get there, a variety of ways to calm the incessant wandering thoughts of the mind, and they work on different principle patterns. So don't get confused about it. There's nothing
ultimately holy about the methods or techniques. You use what's virtuous,
and you use what works. The general rule is that PRACTICE + EFFORT + TIME + PATIENCE will produce a RESULT, namely GONG-FU, along with all the normal, common, shared, non-denominational stages of transformation of the spiritual path including superpowers, psychic abilities, clarivoyance and so forth. If you think only one school or religion has 'got
it,' you're crazy. If you think you don't have to do any effort to realize
your fundamental enlightenment, you might as well turn the page as well. Because you are getting closer to the true root of
the mind and its true abilities that you normally cover over with thought.
Also, you are purifying your mind and your chi, and it's your chi that's
responsible for small supernormal powers. No! It only means you've cultivated some special
functions of the mind. As my teacher says, the form-based schools commonly lead to this all the time (yoga, Tantra, Taoism) when practiced incorrectly, and these lead to the big catastrophes! The catastrophes I've seen and wasted time are
incredible. Story after story after story. Master Nan, who is one of the
few enlightened masters of the Esoteric school (Tantra and Vajrayana)
refuses to even teach the topic! That's how bad it is. A lot of routes are valid, but the majority that I
see being taught today are wrong. It's almost as if the true dharma is
non-existent anymore. If you can understand that, you're on your way to
guiding yourself through correct principles of practice. Unfortunately our video lessons are no longer
available due to a technology issue, but if you want to learn more you can
always turn to 'How to Measure and Deepen Your Spiritual Realization' for
a discussion of the correct principles of practice. It's one of the best translations of his ideas available and it's fascinating to read WHAT NOT TO DO in your spiritual cultivation. Forget the chakras, chi channels, Taoist teachings and so forth. Most every school and its technique developed
aberrations that were dismissed and discredited by enlightened sages - and
Zen was no exception to this - so it's nice to know WHAT NOT TO DO from a
definitive source. It's so bad that I think I have to release the STAGES
course in cassette tape form, so we'll work on that over the next few
weeks. 1) try to use at least 2 meditation methods, one you love and one you hate 2) try to practice meditation at least 45 minutes twice per day if you can 3) UNDERSTAND the target of practice is not thought suppression or realignment, but 'emptiness' 4) UNDERSTAND the principle by which the methods you are using work 5) don't focus on your body or bringing consciousness in your body, because consciousness is by nature non-local - and if you concentrate on physical form you'll likely go astray 6) all sorts of meditation methods produce
supernormal results, but that doesn't mean the route that produces them is
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