The Short Way Of Meditation
Meditation is the practice of making your mind still. Stillness is your
mind’s natural state. It is only when you become agitated by your
surroundings, by things that you desire or fear, that you lose your natural
state of mental equilibrium and fall into confusing and degenerate lower
states of mind.
Your mind should always be engaged in meditation; strive to make it happy,
calm, centered, and still. Unhappiness, fear depression, and frustration
are unnatural states of mind. They are the result of leaving your mind’s
innate state of enlightenment.
The world around you changes constantly. There is little or nothing you
can do about it. Try! Change the world today to what you want or how you
want or how you think it should be. If you are able to do this, you will
discover in a short while that everything you have changed will change
again into something different and that you will be frustrated and
disappointed by this.
This is not to suggest that you should be passive in your life. It is
important to have goals and to strive for the things in life that you are
naturally drawn to. The important point to understand is not to get
attached to what you want to have happen to yourself or others, or to the
events and outcomes that you wish to occur in this or any other incarnation.
Try your best to be your best. Meditate and quiet your mind. Then you will
always know that the dharma is -- that which is spiritually correct for
yourself. By following the dharma, as opposed to your human desires and
fears, you ill become happy and free.
Sometimes the dharma and your desires will be in agreement. Sometimes they
will not. But you must fight always to do the right thing, whether it
brings you personal gain or loss. This is the true way of Vadrayana
Buddhism, the path of the awakened warrior.
The path of the awakened warrior is not an escape from reality. It is an
entrance into reality. If you seek to escape from day-to-day reality, you
will only increase your pain. The reality of enlightenment takes you above
mental and emotional pain while you actively live in the world; reality
cannot be separated from your physical life.
Samsara is nirvana: enlightenment and all of life are one. Suffering is
not caused by living in the material world and having experiences here.
True suffering is caused by losing touch with your inner light.
When your lose touch with your inner light you will descend into lower
samsaric states of consciousness. Here you will become attached to people,
places, and experiences in this and other worlds. This attachment will
cause you to suffer intensely.
It is your attachment to people, places, things, desires, and fears that
causes you to suffer. The daily practice of meditation will allow you to
live in the world, experience the ups and downs of life, but remain
unaffected by the pains and torments that attachment and aversion bring to
unenlightened beings.
The correct practice of meditation will keep you in an ocean of enlightened
mind that will allow you to pass freely through all of your experiences in
a state of bliss. Even the normal pains that come from your physical body
and mental emotions will be greatly reduced by the constant experience of
inner enlightenment you will derive from the correct practice of daily
meditation.
Learn to meditate well, practice, follow the advise of the true Tantric
Masters, and you too will pass beyond suffering and enter into eternal
happiness, bliss, ecstacy, and higher states of enlightenment -- states
for which there are no words.
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