Meditation
Don’t put your observations to words. Avoid putting edges like to pictures in a school book to your thoughts and perceptions. Enlargen your awareness so that you do not close anything away. If you want to concentrate, let the fascination of the things at your attention to invite you to observing them. As a consequence other things are not shut away but just less emphasised or forgotten. This widened awareness gives you a much better capacity in everything that you do – prowided that you do not put your observations into blocks like words. The more complex the scene before youyr relaxed eyes, the more enthralling it is and the better capacity it gives you as time passes. So do not think: breathing is like this, but experience the breath in you, how it affects your being in ways which you were not aware of. Avoid muscle tension, relaxed in a lively way is the goal. If you have a natural thing to experience like a tree to admire for its beauty or an animal or your own relaxed breathing (For me the best is sports: it gives enough stimuli.), you can take the attention used in admoiring that and try to use the same kind of attemtion and non-forcing way of doing in everything that you do: that is called meditation in motion and it gives you a hundredfold capacity or so. Religious feelings and feelings of compassion make you more sensitive in a healthy natural way and are so good for your functioning. Those beautiful feelings are connected to the whole working well, correctly: you as a part of the world, you as a whole and the world as a whole. Meditation means natural attention, like maybe at the emotions when emotionally touched (the flow of life toward the positive and away from the negative while a holistic view of the world (each thing in it with its correct emotional emphasis: its meaningfulness to life) – so you should watch your whole life, the lives of everyone with the eyes of compassion and the world at large as a sum of us all flowing so) or watching something complex and natural, emotionally touching with the sense of beauty there is a natural reaction to morally OK emotions: that’s the way that you should act.
Meditation is a question of personal experience, not of book knowledge. That's why my advice, which seeks to be just an addition to the usual kind of advice on meditation, uses my own observations about the typical obstacles on learning to apply meditation to daily life and my own examples on meditative awareness.
WHAT IS MEDITATION
Meditation is a natural non-forcing state fo mind in which one flows freely to the direction given by feelings and instincts, according to the map given by observation and one’s picture of the world. It is a state of mind which is free from graving. It is much like giving oneself up to whatever comes one’s way. It is related to a relaxed body which is very much alive everywhere. Likewise, one hasn’t shut away any areas of life but tries to live all of them with a tender touch instead of with graving and selfishness. It is a state of mind charachterised by beautiful feelings and at the same time a state of mind born out of following them.
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